Ukrainian shelling killed six people in Russia’s border region of Belgorod on Sunday, while a Russian strike hit a hotel in eastern Ukraine leaving one journalist missing and another two hospitalized, local officials said. A Ukrainian attack on the village of Rakitone, 38 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, killed five people and injured 12 others, … Read more
Meanwhile, as the war has escalated, Russia’s propaganda machine has jumped at every opportunity to show that, as Putin warned when he launched his “special military operation” in February 2022, NATO wants to invade Russia, with the Kursk incursion as the ultimate proof. The message is that the bigger the threat, the more Russians should … Read more
Kyiv wants India to join its vision for “a just peace,” aimed at concentrating a global effort around pushing the Kremlin to end its full-scale invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement Friday. But India — currently one of the largest trade partners of Russia, a major purchaser of Russian oil, as well … Read more
President Vladimir Putin has a message for the Russian region where Ukraine has seized more than 1,000 square kilometers of territory: Don’t blame me. Speaking via videoconference to a meeting of Russian politicians, including the governors of Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, Putin said the “security issues” that had arisen in Kursk were “problems that … Read more
New reports in recent weeks have suggested that Ukrainian operatives may have been behind the September 2022 attack in the Baltic Sea, which ruptured multiple strands of the controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline. Pavel, a key ally of Ukraine in its fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces, wasn’t particularly bothered if Kyiv did blow … Read more
Russian authorities on Monday declared Hollywood star George Clooney’s nonprofit foundation “undesirable,” prohibiting it from operating in Russia. The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) was founded in 2016 by American actor Clooney and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, to investigate human rights abuses. According to its website, the CJF is “actively investigating war … Read more
Kyiv has yet to reveal the total number of POWs it claims to have taken over the course of its more than weeklong incursion into Russian territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that capturing Russian troops was one of the key goals of the operation, in order to replenish what he refers to as … Read more
Goats for guns? After a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June at which the international pariahs discussed mutual cooperation, Moscow has delivered a gift to Pyongyang. Russia sent, drumroll, 447 goats to the North Korean city of Rason, the Russian agriculture safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said in … Read more
It is Kyiv’s most significant incursion into Russian territory since Moscow’s full-scale invasion began in 2022, providing a significant morale boost to Ukraine and its Western allies — and concerns inside the Kremlin. “Now it is clear why the Kyiv regime rejected our proposals for a peaceful settlement plan,” Putin complained at Monday’s meeting. “The … Read more
Information from Thursday indicated Ukrainian forces are in the Russian town of Sudzha, with reports of Ukrainian troops spotted as fas as the village of Ivnitsa, about 24 km inside Russia. Ukrainian incursions into Russian territory have been rare since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago. This week’s advance … Read more
