Nearly three months after Vladimir Putin unleashed his «special military operation» against Ukraine and a day after his less-than-triumphant Victory Day speech, a series of intercepted phone calls and radio traffic suggest the «idiocy» of his war is finally becoming too much to bear for even his own troops. In perhaps the most dramatic audio to eme
The House passed a nearly $40 billion package for Ukraine late Tuesday, sending the bill to the Senate as lawmakers heed President Joe Biden’s warning that U.S. cash to help the allied country will run out in just over a week. Attracting overwhelming support, the measure cleared the House in a 368-57 vote, just hours after bill text was released. A
The seventy-sevenths day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. russian enemy does not cease offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk, Luhans
The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Mi-28H attack helicopter in the Kharkiv region. This was announced by volunteer Roman Donik According to preliminary information, a Russian attack helicopter was shot down in the Ukrainian sky near the village of Bobrivka, which is located northeast of Kharkiv. According to Donik, another helicopter o
Ukraine’s capital is free, for now, of Russian forces bearing down on its borders. But Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko concedes that doesn’t mean everyone can return safely. It could take “a year” to clean up explosives left in the region, Klitschko recently told a delegation of visiting foreign parliamentarians. Some infrastructure has been decimated
Press play to listen to this article French President Emmanuel Macron used a speech on Europe Day to put forward a sweeping, avant-garde but detail-light proposal to redraw the political map of the Continent with a new organization that would give Ukraine a closer relationship with the EU short of membership — and could even include the U.K. Speaki
BERLIN — Critics have taken aim at Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey after Russian flags were flown across the German capital in shows of support for Moscow’s war in Ukraine, while police reportedly confiscated Ukrainian flags on Sunday. Berlin’s police on Friday banned Russian and Ukrainian flags from being displayed at certain locations on May 8 and
Having numerous advantages in manpower and equipment, the army of the occupying country is suffering catastrophic losses and defeats, inflicted by Ukrainian defenders. To change the russians’ perception of the military ‘invincibility’ and prepare society for possible defeat, the russian media has been instructed to tell about the russian-Ukrainian
As the night sky over Moscow was lit by fireworks to mark Victory Day on Monday, Russian forces fired seven missiles at the Black Sea port city of Odesa. One struck a shopping mall, Ukraine’s southern military command said, another a consumer goods warehouse. Several appear to have failed to reach any target. By Tuesday morning, the fires were most
Shouts of “Hurrah!” echoed through Moscow’s Red Square on Monday from thousands of troops and veterans as Russia celebrated Victory Day, marking the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany 77 years ago to end World War II in Europe. Missiles, tanks and other armored vehicles rumbled over the cobblestones in the annual military parade, and thousands o
As the war in Ukraine drags into its third month, the United States is trying to figure out the best way — and pace — to train troops there on how to use the Western arms flooding into the besieged nation. Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have either completed or are undergoing training on how to operate artillery, air defense radar systems, loiterin
The seventy-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. russian enemy does not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk
The Pentagon is expanding delivery of commercially available weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, detailing on Friday its $136 million in purchases of aerial drones, laser-guided rockets, binoculars and other items set for shipment soon. The weapons and equipment, to be purchased from U.S. companies, represent a separate category of military
After two months sheltering in besieged Mariupol, civilians arrived in Ukraine-held Zaporizhzhia exhausted and with few possessions The last civilians rescued from the besieged Azovstal steel plant complex in Mariupol reached safety in Ukrainian held territory late on Sunday evening. The convoy arrived in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia afte
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday told Russia’s Vladimir Putin not to use his Victory Day speech to “appropriate” the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, a conflict in which millions of Ukrainians died. “We will not allow anyone to annex this victory, we will not allow it to be appropriated,” the Ukrainian leader said, warning his