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The Russians, resorting to manipulations, may prevent the IAEA mission from visiting key facilities to be inspected on the territory of the occupied ZNPP, the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, German Galushchenko, has said. Below is a full statement from the Ukrainian government. Design: Kyiv Post The Minister noted that the Ukrainian side had discussed […]

Alexei Kovalev was found Sunday shot to death in his home in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Hola Prystan. Nearby lay his girlfriend, reportedly badly injured with stab wounds to her neck, and a Mossberg pump-action shotgun A Russian police officer in occupied Ukrainian Kherson stands by a poster reading “Kherson – the cradle of the Russian […]

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of waging attacks on Thursday near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, causing one of its reactors to shut down just as a team of UN inspectors were heading in for a visit. A Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuer attends an exercise in Zaporizhzhia on 17 August, 2022, in case of […]

The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 48,350 Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24 to September 1, including 450 on August 31. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. The enemy’s total combat losses included also 1,997 tanks (+3 over the past day), 4,345 armored […]

Despite the ongoing Russian invasion, Ukrainian education never stops. As pupils return to schools across the country, teachers began to conduct their first lessons, many instilling a single profound line into the minds of their pupils: “We are Ukrainians: honor and glory to the indomitable.” Many schools have reopened their doors – but numerous changes […]

Vicious battles are raging near Kherson in southern Ukraine after Kyiv announced the launch of a counter-offensive in the region. It wants to push Russian troops out of Kherson — captured in the early days of the war — and back across the Dnipro River. Ukrainian servicemen shoot with a SPG-9 recoilless gun during training in […]

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose actions as the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union helped shape the world as we know it today, died after a “serious and long illness” late Tuesday, the state-run TASS news agency reported, citing the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. He was 91. Mikhail Gorbachev died after a “serious […]

Fighting rages in Kherson Oblast as Ukraine’s military begins an offensive aimed at retaking territory captured by Russia in the early days of the full-scale war. But as more reports of the unfolding counteroffensive in the south appear, Russia intensifies its attacks on a number of Ukrainian cities, including the city of Kharkiv where a […]

A Russian officer checks a Kalashnikov submachine gun during the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum at the Russian Armed Forces’ Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on August 16, 2022. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) According to a senior US defence source, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to boost the number of Russia’s armed forces […]

Russia has claimed a readiness to negotiate should Ukraine show willing, yet continues its desperate strategy of finding virtually anyone willing to fight its war. Time and again, Russia has shown it cannot be trusted, so the question needs to be asked: What’s Russia’s game this time? And what could have been behind the car […]