Ukraine, fresh from a string of victories in the northeast, is now poised at the gateway to the eastern Donbas region and may have its best opportunity yet to dislodge Russian forces that expanded their control over the area after brutal…
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In a rare admission of official mistakes, the Kremlin acknowledged on Monday (26) that its new military draft to reinforce the Russian assault on Ukraine has been rife with problems. The admission occurred the same day that a man,…
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In battlefields in the rolling hills of the Donbas in eastern Ukraine, and near the Black Sea in the south, Ukrainian troops have stubbornly tried to inch forward without losing control of territory, facing an opponent whose forces have…
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Torture chambers in the basements of police precincts and school buildings. Witness testimony of abuse, humiliation and murder. Seven foreign medical students from Sri Lanka held captive found alive and freed. A forest filled with graves
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Russia is buying millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea, according to newly declassified American intelligence, a sign that global sanctions have severely restricted its supply chains and forced Moscow to turn to pariah…
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Most of a team of United Nations inspectors departed the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday (Sept 1) after a short risky visit to assess its safety, leaving behind five experts to monitor the plant, where shelling has raised the…
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Artillery barrages along a section of front line near an imperilled nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine struck towns, ammunition dumps and a Russian military base in intense fighting overnight, Ukrainian officials said Sunday (28)
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No one knows how war will end. President Vladimir Putin of Russia, having silenced dissent, has proclaimed that “by and large, we haven’t started anything yet in earnest.” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, emboldened by a defiant…
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A string of explosions rocked Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa on Saturday (23), hitting one of the country’s most important ports less than 24 hours after Russia and Ukraine signed a deal to secure the transit of millions of tons of grain…
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As Russia tries to break the stranglehold of sanctions, China and India are emerging as Moscow’s pivotal financiers by purchasing large amounts of Russian crude, putting themselves in the middle of the messy war with Ukraine and a…
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