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The potential for Russian President Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine should be taken “very seriously,” according to CIA Director William Burns. However, he said there is as yet “no practical evidence” they will be used. Speaking to CBS News on Oct 4, Burns asserted: “Putin, who feels his back is against the […]

After retiring from the Russian Air Force at the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Vitaly Votanovsky got involved in political activism in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. Now, he is a vociferous opponent of the invasion of Ukraine and has been repeatedly detained for photographing the graves of dead soldiers.   A Russian sapper in the […]

North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years, marking its fifth launch in 10 days. The South Korean military detected a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM, being fired from Mupyong-ri in the northern province of Chagang eastward at 7:23 a.m., the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. […]

ARussian strike on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, an official said Friday, just hours before Moscow planned to annex more of Ukraine in an escalation of the seven-month war. Psychologists help a person who was in a convoy of civilian vehicles that was hit by a Russian […]

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk has been strongly criticised after posting a series of Tweets about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba are among the most prominent politicians who responded to the online comments. Tesla founder Elon Musk, left, and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right.   –   Copyright  Credit: AP On Monday evening […]

Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks outside the settlements of Vyimka, Maiorsk, Spirne, Ozerianivka, Bakhmutske, Kamianka and Ternovi Pody. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its morning update, Ukrinform reports. The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrating its […]

An elderly Russian scientist accused of passing state secrets to China as a guest university lecturer died Sunday under house arrest, his lawyers said. Valery Mitko, the former president of the Arctic Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, was charged with high treason in early 2020 and banned from leaving his home. Arctic Academy of Sciences […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hailed the capture of the important strategic town of Lyman from Russian control on Saturday, as Ukrainian forces continued their counteroffensive. Ukrainian soldiers carry ammunition for a Ukrainian D-30 howitzer near Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Inna Varenytsia Kyiv’s most significant battlefield gain in weeks provides a […]

The enemy continues to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy Donetsk region and hold the captured territories, as well as disrupt the operations of Ukraine’s Defense Forces in certain directions. “The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line, conducting aerial reconnaissance. It is striking civilian infrastructure and civilian […]

Moscow said Saturday that it had withdrawn its troops from Lyman, a key town in eastern Ukraine that lies in one of the four Ukrainian regions Russia is in the process of annexing. Ukrainian soldiers ride on a self-propelled howitzer near Borivske, Kharkiv region, Ukraine.Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP  “In connection with the creation of a […]