The trial of a single Russian sergeant opened in Ukraine in what is expected to start a massive prosecution for war crimes in a months-long conflict that on Friday saw fighting rage in the east as Russia appeared to suffer new losses when its forces attempted to breach a key river.
The eightieth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
On the air of the all-Ukrainian telethon, the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine stated that Zmiinyi Island (or Snake Island) is of strategic importance both for Ukraine and for the russian occupiers, as it enables the control of the sea waters and, to a certain extent, the aerial situation in the south of Ukraine. Zmiinyi Island is also strategically important in terms of russia’s ability for a tactical naval landing.
A group of Russian soldiers who didn’t want to «keep going ahead» in Ukraine were reportedly stripped, tied up, and whisked off in buses to an unknown location.
The seventy-ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
Making big promises at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was hard; six months later, governments are finding out that actually following through on them is even harder.
An eastern Ukrainian village that suffered tremendous devastation at the onset of the war is now turning the tables on Russian forces.
The representative of the occupying country said that the risk is great, because it is provoked by "pumping Ukraine with weapons."
The consequence of economic sanctions imposed by the world's leading powers on the aggressor country is a significant decline in the military-industrial complex of Russia.
The seventy-eighth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
There are no evidences of kremlin’s intentions to end the war in Ukraine for near future. At the same time, attempts to conduct so-called ‘covert mobilization’ are going on. An active agitation campaign is underway, as well as graduates and cadets of military schools are being sent to the combat zone.
In 2014, when Russian forces entered the Crimean Peninsula, they faced remarkably little resistance. The Ukrainian military was weak, poorly trained, and corrupt. That was the Ukrainian military Russian President Vladimir Putin expected to encounter when he invaded the country again in February 2022. Assuming that the Ukrainian military would not put up much of a fight, Russia opted for a multipronged attack advancing from numerous locations in Russia, Belarus, and previously occupied Ukrainian territory. By the time it became clear that the multipronged invasion would not achieve the swift surrender that the Kremlin had expected, Russia’s forces were dispersed across a vast country and, in many cases, running critically short of supplies.
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.
The seventy-sevenths day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.