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As military jobs go, Junior Sergeant Dmytro Nichenko occupies a reasonably tolerable billet. He heads up a maintenance team in one of the better brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the mechanics that he is in charge of are competent. Junior Sergeant Dmitro Ninchenko is from Mariupol. He has had no contact with his […]

Moscow on Monday furiously condemned the rejection by several European countries of a request for Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s plane to pass through their airspace, forcing him to cancel a trip to ally Serbia. “The unthinkable has happened,” Lavrov told an online news conference in Moscow. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service […]

The Russian state media reported that a general was killed in eastern Ukraine, adding to the string of high-ranking military casualties sustained by Moscow during its invasion. Members of a foreign volunteers unit that fights in the Ukrainian army drive on a military vehicle, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region Ukraine, […]

100 days. When Russia started its invasion in February, it was impossible to imagine this catastrophe would be on for 100 days with still no end in sight.100 days may sound vague, but each day represents thousands of tragedies: lives lost, people tortured and raped, homes destroyed. The Kyiv Independent’s journalists work in the field […]

Explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday as a regional governor said Ukrainian forces were pushing back against Russian troops in the strategic eastern city of Severodonetsk. The battle for Ukraine’s eastern city of Severodonetsk was being waged street by street, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, while explosions rocked the capital early Sunday.      Russia’s […]

PUTIN WARNS AGAINST MISSILES FOR UKRAINE – Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Moscow will strike new targets if the West supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine and says new arms deliveries to Kyiv are aimed at “prolonging the conflict”. This handout picture taken on an unknown date and released by press-service of Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian […]

The death toll in the explosion at Chattogram’s Sitakunda container depot reached 43, confirmed the authorities of Chittagong Medical College Hospital and police. [photo collected] The death toll in the explosion at Chattogram’s Sitakunda container depot reached 43, confirmed the authorities of Chittagong Medical College Hospital and police. Besides, more than 200 people were injured […]

The Shenzhou-14 manned mission is slated to be launched at 10:44 on Sunday morning from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China’s Gansu Province, authorities announced on Saturday. The three crew members are Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, with Chen as the mission commander. This undated photo shows Chinese astronauts Chen Dong […]

 Ukraine claims Russian forces pushed back in east in fierce fighting – Russian artillery slammed Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region with fierce fighting over the city of Severodonetsk, but the local governor said there was some progress in pushing back invading forces. mSmoke rises in the city of Severodonetsk during heavy fightings between Ukrainian and Russian […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rewrite of the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy, according to people familiar with the matter. US President Joe Biden in Washington, DC and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a congress of the United Russia party in Moscow. (File Photo: AFP) Early versions of the text, […]