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Russian invaders launched an airstrike on the town of Bakhmut in Donetsk region. A local school was completely destroyed, casualties have been reported. “The occupiers fired on the town in the morning. Russian shells hit a school and an administrative building sheltering people. The school was completely destroyed. Four hundred children studied there before the […]

– The Ukrainian Armed Forces depend on Western support and are in need of weapons and equipment to withstand Russian attacks. Ukraine has specifically requested this type of weapon. The development in the war in Ukraine now suggests that it is necessary to also donate heavier artillery and weapons’ systems, says Norwegian Minister of Defence, […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Army’s Ground Forces commander on Tuesday warned leaders of the Israeli regime that in case of making any wrong move, Iran will pulverize Tel Aviv and Haifa, referring to the remarks of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. “By the order of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, we will raze […]

Sweden’s Social Democrats have confirmed that their party will stick to a deal struck in November with an MP to help Kurds in northern Syria, in a move that will complicate talks with Turkey over Nato. The independent MP Amineh Kakabaveh leaves the offices of state broadcaster SR. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT “We Social Democrats always […]

One hundred days of all-out war has been plenty of time to get acquainted with the Russian troops. Their lackluster combat performance, artillery barrages against cities, treatment of civilians, intercepted messages home, and interviews with dozens of civilians around Ukraine allow one to put together a mosaic portrait of the invaders. It’s not a flattering […]

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 […]