British Prime Minister Liz Truss in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky strongly condemned the Russian attacks on civilian areas and assured that they would not reduce the determination to continue providing aid to Kiev.more
The new commander of the Russian invasion force, General Sergei Surovikin, will have to compete with Russia's increasingly fragmented defense ministry, which is poorly equipped given the political goals in Ukraine, the British defense ministry said.more
About the outbreaks, among others In Odessa and Kryvyi Rih, as well as in the Kiev and Vinnytsia oblasts of Ukraine, local authorities and Ukrainian channels in the Telegram messenger reported this morning.more
Russia uses state terrorism; I appeal to the democratic world to immediately recognize it as a terrorist country - informed Ukrainian ambassador to Poland Vasyl Zwarycz. As he emphasized, Ukraine will not be intimidated, it will continue its counteroffensive and increase its efforts to achieve a full victory.more
Unable to stem the losses of his troops on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin has chosen to terrorize and kill ordinary Ukrainians as proof that Russia will not concede defeat in the seven-month war, writes The Guardian newspaper's Moscow correspondent Andrew Roth.more
At least eight people were killed and 24 wounded as a result of Russian rocket attacks on the center of Kiev this morning, according to adviser to Interior Ministry chief Rostyslav Smyrnov. The Russians fired at a children's playground and a museum, among other places, officials relayed. Explosions also occurred in Lviv, Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi regions.more
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden spoke on the phone yesterday and agreed that Vladimir Putin's recent nuclear threats are "irresponsible" and that the partial mobilization ordered by the Russian leader is a "serious mistake," the German government said.more
EU countries want to train approx. 15 thousand Ukrainian soldiers, the dpa agency informs, citing information from the daily "Spiegel" and "Welt am Sonntag". Appropriate decisions are already taken in this matter in the Political and Security Committee of the EU.more
A member of Putin's inner circle of associates lashed out at the president for criticizing the war in Ukraine and the mistakes being made in it, the Washington Post reported yesterday, citing intelligence service information. This is supposed to be a signal of growing tensions within the Russian government's inner circle.more
Ukraine's Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported today, citing sources, that the explosion that occurred this morning on a bridge built by Russia into annexed Crimea was a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The SBU has not commented on this opinion.more
Ukraine has started a new phase of the offensive in the Kherson Oblast, putting Russians in a dilemma of whether to defend the entire area or concentrate on the most viable parts of the region, the British defense ministry said today.more
A 23-year-old Irish man who fought in the ranks of the Ukrainian international legion was killed during a counteroffensive conducted near Kharkiv, his family said. He is the first Irish citizen to die fighting in Ukraine.more
Actually, no one should be compared to Hitler, not even Putin. But the parallels in Hitler's fall to Putin's current situation are striking, notes Nikolaus Blome in the Spiegel weekly. Are these the last days not in Hitler's bunker in Berlin, but somewhere in the Kremlin? - the author wonders.more
In less than two weeks after Vladimir Putin announced mobilization, some 700,000 people left Russia, 200,000 of whom went to Kazakhstan, Forbes magazine reported in its Russian edition. It is unclear how many plan to return.more
EU member states last night reached an agreement on an eighth package of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, an EU source said. Another diplomatic source said that some details still need to be clarified and this will happen today.more
AerCap, the largest aircraft leasing company in the world, filed a lawsuit in a London court for compensation for 116 aircraft that could not be recovered from Russian airlines following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times writes. The case may be $ 3.5 billion.more
Ukrainian troops are on track to meet their main goals ahead of winter, including pushing Russians beyond the Dnieper in the Kherson region, Celeste Wallander, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security said today. She also added that the Ukrainian reflection of Lyman in the Donetsk region was of key importance.more
The US administration is developing responses to a range of nuclear scenarios in Ukraine that Russia may take, from the use of tactical nuclear weapons to an attack on a nuclear power plant, CNN said yesterday. According to TV sources, Putin is under pressure from nationalists, although there are no signs of preparations for such a move yet.more
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed concern over Putin's threats to use an atomic bomb in the war in Ukraine. "We take his words very seriously, everything else would be neglect," Baerbock reported in the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung.more
Ukrainians seeking refuge are too unevenly distributed in Europe, which may become a real problem in winter if the situation in Ukraine worsens, assessed migration expert Gerald Knaus. Countries such as the Czech Republic and Poland bear the greatest burden.more
The use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be very risky for Russian President Vladimir Putin and would not bring him a victory, and at best it would freeze the front line in its current position, assessed the US Institute for War Studies.more
The Norwegian government announced yesterday that it will increase border protection with Russia in the far north for fear of an influx of Russian immigrants. The only border crossing in Storskog has not been closed.more
In response to the annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts announced yesterday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the British Foreign Ministry extended the sanctions imposed on Russia and called on the country's ambassador, Andrei Kielin, to convey a strong protest to him.more
Ukraine is submitting an application to join NATO in an accelerated procedure, announced on Friday the president of the country, Volodymyr Zelensky. This information was provided by the head of state after Friday's session of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).more
