MILITARY CONFLICTS

Volodymyr Zelensky: Evacuation of civilians from Azovstal began; the 1st group of about 100 people is already heading to the controlled area; tomorrow we’ll meet them in Zaporizhzhia

Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Wednesday the country is set to face “extremely difficult weeks” of heavy fighting ahead due to the large-scale offensive Russia is preparing to launch on the eastern Donbas region. “We have several extremely difficult weeks ahead of us. The implementation of agreements [with Ukraine’s international partners], training [of […]

President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that if any other country intervenes in Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Russia will launch a quick-fire military response. Speaking to lawmakers, Putin said that “if anyone sets out to intervene in the current events from the outside and creates unacceptable threats for us that are strategic in nature, they […]

A commander for the Ukrainian marines fighting in the last stronghold of Mariupol said his forces were “maybe facing our last days, if not hours” and appealed for extraction in a Facebook post published early Wednesday. “The enemy is outnumbering us ten to one,” Serhiy Volyna from the 36th Separate Marine Brigade said, sheltering at […]

In the depths of the huge fortified Azovstal factory complex, the Chechens are now on a mission to. . to flush out the remaining neo-Nazi fighters of the Azov battalion who have remained inside and did not want to make use of the Russian forces‘ ultimatum to surrender, with all that this now means for […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday that Russia has launched its large-scale offensive in the eastern Donbas region. “We can now say that Russian troops have begun the battle for Donbas, for which they have been preparing for a long time. A very large part of the entire Russian army is now focused on […]

Twitter posts from the burning Russian cruiser “Moskva” just before it sank. The photos show the tilt the Russian flagship had taken in the Black Sea before it finally sank. The Moskva, which took part in all Russian campaigns in the 21st century, was hit, according to the Ukrainians, by two Neptune cruise missiles that […]

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles hit the city of Lviv in western Ukraine on Monday, killing at least six people, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow’s troops stepped up strikes on infrastructure in preparation for an all-out assault on the east. Plumes of thick, black smoke rose over the city after a series of explosions shattered […]

In a hypothetical scenario leading to World War III, Russia would have five powerful countries on its side, which would allow it to respond to the US and NATO, reports the Daily Express. NATO has no plans yet to intervene in a special military operation in Ukraine, as it fears the start of a larger […]

The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were “carpeted through the streets.” Speaking by phone Monday to The Associated Press, Mayor Vadym Boychenko also said Russian […]