A view shows damaged buildings at the site of a Russian drone strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine on April 23, 2024. Photo: Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov via Telegram, via Reuters Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine that injured nine people in the Black Sea port of Odesa, four of … Read more
People look at fragments of the television tower which was broken in half after it was hit by a Russian missile in Kharkiv, Ukraine on April 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The situation for Ukraine on its front line is likely to steadily deteriorate in coming weeks, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence said in … Read more
Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces to prepare to seize more land this spring and summer as muddy fields dry out and allow tanks, armoured vehicles and other heavy equipment to roll to key positions across the countryside. With the war in Ukraine now in its third year and a vital … Read more
FILE – Smoke rises over the site of explosion at an ammunition storage of the Russian army near the village of Mayskoye, Crimea, on Aug. 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Ukraine said on April 18 its forces had struck a large Russian airfield on the annexed Crimean peninsula, destroying an array of military equipment. … Read more
Russian prominent nationalist, former military commander and Kremlin critic Igor Girkin, also known as Igor Strelkov, who is charged with inciting extremist activity, sits behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow, Russia on January 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian nationalist and ex-rebel commander Igor Girkin, … Read more
In this photo released by The State Duma, Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov (right) attends a session at the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia. | Photo Credit: AP The lower house of Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, on November 17 approved its biggest-ever federal budget which will increase … Read more
A man walks past a house destroyed by recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on September 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Two elderly people were killed and three wounded on September 12 in Russian shelling of the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, the prosecutor general’s office said. It … Read more
This handout photograph published on August 16, 2023 by Telegram account of the Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Oleg Kiper, shows damaged warehouses in a port on the Danube river, in southern Odesa region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Photo Credit: AFP Russia overnight attacked with drones the south of Ukraine’s southern Odesa and the Danube … Read more
Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had prevented Ukraine from attacking the Black Sea port of Sevastopol on Sunday, destroying seven aerial and two underwater drones. “This morning, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by seven unmanned aerial vehicles and two unmanned underwater vehicles on objects on the territory … Read more
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning speaks during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, on April 24, 2023. The Chinese government said Monday it respects the sovereignty of former Soviet Union republics after Beijing’s ambassador to France caused an uproar in Europe by saying they aren’t sovereign nations. | … Read more