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.
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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.
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 war as russia’s armed confrontation with all countries of European Union and NATO. According to kremlin’s political technologists, this will reduce the shame of defeat to the most powerful enemy.
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.
The seventy-sixth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
After two months sheltering in besieged Mariupol, civilians arrived in Ukraine-held Zaporizhzhia exhausted and with few possessions
Old Rules Still Apply to a New Era of Limited Conflict
Russia’s Victory Day has had an evolving makeover during President Vladimir Putin’s reign.
Addressing the phalanxes of elite Russian troops filling Red Square, Putin said the campaign in Ukraine was a necessary move to avert what he described as “a threat that was absolutely unacceptable to us [that] has been methodically created next to our borders.”
Russia should not be able to set the terms of any peace deal that brings its invasion of Ukraine to an end, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday during a television address to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Speaking in French, Trudeau said the embassy had been reopened and Canada’s ambassador would be posted there as of Sunday.
Whole command staff of the 71st motorized rifle regiment of the occupation forces was forces to guard the kremlin assassins, rapists, false propagandists and their local henchmen, who arrived in Mariupol. The russian invaders are so afraid of the attack of the defenders of Ukraine that they have forced the officers of the regiment to leave the fighting positions and provide them with round-the-clock guarding.
The seventy-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks on Friday defended the Biden administration’s strategy of integrated deterrence against adversaries such as Russia, despite its invasion of Ukraine.
Like so much else, the May 9 celebrations have been soured by Vladimir Putin’s ambitions.
The seventy-third day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
Due to high losses at the front, the occupiers are trying to urgently replenish the reserves of "manpower". Despite repeated statements by the Kremlin about the inadmissibility of involving conscripts in the war, such cases are becoming more frequent.