This week, the Russian defense ministry acknowledged that Ukraine has made territorial gains in the battle for the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, with Ukrainian forces advancing on the flanks of Donetsk city just to the south, Newsweek reported. However, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder and...
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This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy admitted that Ukraine’s military needs more time to prepare for a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces, the Associated Press noted. Zelenskyy emphasized that launching an assault now would result in too many lives being lost. Ukraine has been preparing...
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Ukrainian commanders have been establishing protected supply lines and funneling soldiers and weapons to Bakhmut, the eastern Ukrainian city that could become a fulcrum for the long-awaited spring offense against Russian-controlled lines, wrote US News and World Report. Russian forces, meanwhile, are fortifying the Crimean...
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This week, tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated as Moscow accused Kyiv of orchestrating a drone attack it claimed was an assassination attempt on President Vladimir Putin, according to CBS News. In retaliation, Russia launched an overnight wave of drones on Ukraine, and while most...
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This week, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance has provided Ukraine with 1,550 armored vehicles and 230 tanks, in addition to anti-aircraft systems and artillery, to help the country retake territory from Russian forces, Agence-France Presse reported. Since the start of the conflict in...
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This week, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg visited Ukraine for the first time since Russia invaded the nation more than a year ago, assuring the country that the military alliance would continue to stand by it, The Hill reported. His trip comes days after Russian President...
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This week, leaked Pentagon documents posted on social media highlighted a pessimistic US viewpoint on the state of the war in Ukraine. The documents, which appear to date from February and March, underscored weaknesses in Ukraine’s weaponry and air defenses, and predicted a stalemate in...
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This week, Russian troops led by mercenaries of the Wagner Group captured the center of Bakhmut even as Ukrainian forces continued fighting for the embattled eastern city in what’s now the war’s 58th week, Al Jazeera reported. Bakhmut has seen some of the fiercest and...
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This week, Russia announced it would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a move seen as retaliation for the United Kingdom announcing last week that it would supply Ukraine with armor-piercing shells constructed from depleted uranium, France 24 reported. Although the rounds contain tiny amounts...
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This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping left Moscow after a three-day visit that appeared to yield mixed results, CNBC noted. China’s leader and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin reaffirmed areas of strategic cooperation as well as pledges to expand economic ties and trade through 2030....
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This week, Poland said it is planning to give Ukraine around a dozen Soviet-made fighter jets, making it the first NATO country to fulfill the Ukrainian government's increasingly urgent requests for warplanes, the Associated Press reported. At the same time, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said...
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This week, Russia launched a massive wave of missile attacks across Ukraine, killing dozens of people, knocking out power and taking a nuclear power plant off the grid, Reuters reported. The first large-scale missile attack since mid-February on Thursday shattered the longest period of relative...
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This week, Russia and Ukraine clashed after Moscow accused a Ukrainian sabotage group of crossing the border into Russia’s Bryansk region, firing on civilians and in one village taking hostages, CNBC reported Thursday. Ukraine disputed the charges, accusing Russia of “deliberate provocation” while also saying...
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As the US and Germany send advanced armored vehicles to help Ukraine’s cause, Russia has lost almost half of its battle tanks, reported the Guardian recently. Half of Russia’s airborne troops have died in the war between the two former Soviet republics, added Newsweek. Russian...
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This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia’s nuclear forces would be strengthened as fears increase about the larger global impact of the Ukraine war, NBC News reported. The Russian leader added that Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can carry several nuclear warheads, will...
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US President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to the Ukrainian capital on Monday, a trip aimed at assuring allies and also Kyiv about the United States’ continued support for Ukraine as the anniversary of Russia’s invasion approaches, the Wall Street Journal reported. Biden met with...
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This week, Russia said it breached areas of Ukrainian defenses in the eastern Luhansk region, while Ukraine’s military said it had countered most attacks, although admitting the situation remains difficult, Radio Free Europe reported. Fighting intensified on Wednesday as NATO defense ministers gathered for a...
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As their fellow citizens battle the Russian army on the eastern front, Ukrainian authorities recently displayed the mounds of cash, luxury watches and cars that a corrupt chief tax collector in the capital of Kyiv acquired as he overlooked $1.2 billion in taxes, CNN reported. The...
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This week, Russia looked to achieve modest territorial gains in Ukraine’s eastern regions ahead of the anniversary of the war’s commencement, as it sent recruits into the front lines to probe defenses with widely distributed strikes, often with horrific fatalities for its forces, Al Jazeera...
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A Russian company that makes materials for oil fracking, Fores, is offering more than $70,000 to the first Russian soldiers who capture or destroy any of the tanks given to Ukraine by the US and Europe. The announcement of the bounty came around a week after...
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