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Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at Western countries and hailed Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine on Monday as he addressed an annual military parade in Moscow that marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. “You are fighting for the motherland, for her future, and so that nobody forgets the lessons of World War […]

KHARKIV – As the small convoy of journalists rounded a bend outside Kharkiv, two dark-green Ukrainian howitzers could be seen on a hill, etched against the warm blue May sky. A little while later, they vanished, likely moved to another location to continue the ongoing artillery battle against the Russians near Ukraine’s second-largest city just […]

Russia will mark Monday the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazism amid expectations that ongoing fighting in Ukraine will cast a long shadow over the popular event. In particular, the set piece military parade on Moscow’s Red Square will see significantly fewer soldiers and equipment compared to last year, which experts have linked to significant losses […]

North Korea has launched a presumed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) toward the East Sea, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed on Saturday, its second missile test in less than a week. What appeared to be four new Pukguksong-class submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) were rolled out on truck trailers on April 25, 2022, North […]

Ukrainian authorities fear up to 60 people sheltering in a school in Luhansk region may have been killed in a Russian strike on the building. It comes as the World Health Organisation announced it was collecting evident in Ukraine of possible war crimes committed by Russian forces against medical facilities. Emergency crew tend to a […]

All women, children and elderly civilians who have been holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the destroyed port city of Mariupol have been evacuated, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says. The civilian evacuation followed another operation on Friday that pulled 50 people from the Soviet-era tunnels and bunkers beneath the factory, the city’s […]

Al Shabaab jihadists armed with guns and explosives stormed an African Union base in Somalia on Tuesday, triggering a fierce firefight that killed at least 10 Burundian peacekeepers. File photo: Soldiers of African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia search for explosive devices next to their base in Ceeljaale, southern coastal Somalia, on September 19, 2019. © […]

As the latest attempt to rescue civilians from the Azovstal plant in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol got underway, Ukrainian fighters battling Russian forces in the tunnels beneath the heavily bombed steelworks refused to surrender A pro-Russian service member is seen atop a tank during fighting in the Ukraine-Russia conflict near the Azovstal steel […]

In a ceremony deserving of his rank, Russian Major General Vladimir Frolov was laid to rest in St. Petersburg’s Serafimovskoe Cemetery, where tens of thousands of victims of World War II are buried. A Russian serviceman stands guard in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.Andrey BORODULIN / AF “Today we say goodbye to a true hero. […]

Amnesty International said on Friday there was compelling evidence that Russian troops had committed war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area outside Ukraine’s capital in February and March. Civilians also suffered abuses such as “reckless shootings and torture” at the hands of Russian forces during their failed onslaught on Kyiv […]