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Ukraine on Tuesday said it had carried out a successful long-range rocket strike against Russian forces in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops. Russian troops guard an entrance of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station, a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in […]

Russia and Ukraine were due Wednesday to hold their first talks with UN and Turkish officials aimed at breaking a months-long impasse over grain exports that has seen food prices soar and millions face hunger. Harvesting grain crops in fields in the Novoaidar District, eastern Ukraine’s breakaway pro-Russian Luhansk people’s republic/ TASS The four-way meeting […]

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud visits the Somali Army Brigade in Eritrea where they completed training. PHOTO | VILLA SOMALIA Somalia’s controversial army trainees in Eritrea appeared for the first time in public, three years after a scandal emerged about their recruitment. The soldiers were photographed at a parade on Saturday with new President Hassan […]

Around 150 soldiers from a Siberian region with one of the highest military death tolls in the Ukraine war have refused deployment, a prominent activist has said. A Buryat serviceman during a Victory Day military parade marking the 73rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in Ulan-Ude, republic of Buryatia, on May 9, 2018.Andrei Ogorodnik/TAS […]

Russia on Monday opened fire with artillery, multiple rocket launchers and tanks around Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv and shelled cities in the east, Ukraine’s general staff said, following a strike that killed 18 people in an apartment building. Iryna Shulimova, 59, weeps at the scene in the aftermath of a Russian rocket that hit […]

Ukrainian defenders repulsed another enemy offensive near Marinka, forcing the Russian military to flee, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced in a Facebook post on Monday, July 11. Ukrainian soldier in Marinka. (Photo by AFP). Ukrainian defenders repulsed another enemy offensive near Marinka, forcing the Russian military to flee, the General […]

The accession of Sweden and Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would be “a step closer to the escalation of political and military tensions in Europe” and would “aggravate things for the Baltic and Arctic regions,” Alexey Zaitsev cautioned Deputy spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexey Zaitsev © Russian Foreign Ministry Press Office/TASS […]

Ukrainian defenders fought desperately to withstand a major Russian offensive in the Donetsk region, a senior Ukrainian official said Wednesday, with the enemy laying down heavy artillery fire to pave the way for ground forces to advance. Firefighters spray water onto a fire at the market after shelling in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 5, […]

A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in seizing an eastern Ukraine province essential to his wartime aims, the mayor of Slovyansk in the path of Moscow’s offensive warned residents to evacuate ahead of an expected assault Ukraine-Russia conflict in the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, Ukraine, July 4, 2022. (Reuters […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 4, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev / SPUTNIK / AFP) Haidai also stressed the need to get more Western arms in order to outmatch Russia’s firepower. Meanwhile, according to Ukraine Armed Forces (UAF) reports, Russia is increasingly and […]