The Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University published a study on Tuesday that found at least 314 children kidnapped from Ukraine by Russian forces have been offered for adoption on websites funded by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he will put the finishing touches on an “action plan for peace” by the end of November. He added that he cannot discuss a ceasefire while Russian forces occupy Ukrainian territory.
Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a regional capital.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs debuted a “spokeswoman” named “Victoria Shi,” a digital character created by artificial intelligence.
Ukrainian’s top military commander admitted that the situation alongside the eastern front with Russia has “significantly worsened” amid renewed push from Moscow’s forces.
One of the Indian men who were lured to Russia with the promise of a good job and forced into the Russian military has reportedly been killed.
The families of several Indian citizens tricked into fighting for Russia on the front lines in Ukraine have asked the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring their missing sons and husbands home safely.
At least 18 people were killed Sunday by shelling at a market on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Six people have been killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine in the past 24 hours, local officials reported Sunday.
Putin’s ranter-in-chief Medvedev made not-so-thinly veiled threats on Wednesday against two regions in Georgia, a NATO and EU aspirant.
Russian officials have claimed that Ukraine has shelled civilian areas of the contested Donetsk region with cluster bombs supplied by Biden.
Ukrainians have pushed through the defacto border established in the 2014 Russian invasion, taking back long-occupied territory, the UK says.
Ukraine has “de-occupied” 130km², an area a little smaller than Staten Island in New York, since the start of the counter-offensive.
The long-discussed Ukrainian spring counteroffensive is underway, with the country reporting a handful of villages reclaimed.
Russia stopped a “large-scale offensive” by Ukrainian forces from Sunday morning which continued through to Monday, they claim.
Russia’s “high priority” to gaining ground near Donetsk, a British intelligence says, noting “minimal gains” despite “significant resources”.
The owner of Russia’s Wagner Group military company claimed that his troops have extended their gains in the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country, with Ukrainian officials saying that Moscow is having trouble launching its much-anticipated large-scale offensive there.
(AFP) – Ukraine said Friday it was resisting a “high intensity” Russian offensive in Soledar, a nearly completely destroyed town in the eastern Donetsk region that is now the epicentre of the war.
The war in Ukraine is now in deadlock, a spy chief from the country has reportedly confirmed, telling the BBC that neither his country nor Russia have been able to break the other’s defences.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is gambling its reputation somewhat by predicting Russia is “unlikely” to make significant gains in the coming months.
Russia claims its forces are advancing in the Donetsk region of the Donbas, and that it has “liberated” a number of settlements.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are stepping up their strikes in a fiercely contested region of eastern Ukraine, worsening the already tough conditions for residents and the defending army following Moscow’s illegal annexation and declaration of martial law in Donetsk province, Ukrainian authorities said.
Russian forces are making “tactical advances” in the Donbas following a long run of bad news for their “special military operation”, according to British intelligence.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown with suicide drones on Sunday, and Ukraine pushed ahead with its counteroffensive after taking back control of a strategic eastern city.
Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia defended the referendums, claiming that more than 100 international observers from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, and Latvia who observed the voting recognized the outcomes as legitimate.
Ukraine claims it has Russian forces in the key eastern city of Lyman completely surrounded, and that they have eliminated close to 60,000 Russian personnel since February.
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian military personnel are fortifying their positions around the eastern city of Sloviansk in expectation of a fresh Russian attempt to seize the strategic point in the fiercely fought-over Donetsk region.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are managing to “raise true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland despite reports of them taking an operational pause, a regional governor said Saturday, while the government in Kyiv urged people in Russian-occupied southern areas to evacuate “by all possible means” ahead of a Ukrainian offensive.
Dozens of people have reportedly died after a missile strike hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk. (Warning: Contains graphic image.)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The Russia-backed head of a separatist region in eastern Ukraine says he expects thousands of fighters from the Middle East to come to fight the Ukrainian forces.
The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, which remains in power almost exclusively thanks to Russian intervention during a decade-long civil war, expressed “support” for Vladimir Putin’s decision on Monday to recognize Russian proxy groups in Ukraine as sovereign “states.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Tuesday that he was reviewing a request from his diplomats to cut all ties to Russia in response to Russian leader Vladimir Putin recognizing Russian proxies in the country as sovereign states and ordering “peacekeeping” troops into Ukraine.
The UK and the EU will impose new sanctions on Russia following Vladimir Putin recognising separatist regions of Ukraine as sovereign.
Cases of the Chinese coronavirus in the Russian-Ukrainian war front of Donetsk have spiked by a record amount in recent days, according to local media.
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The leader of the Russian-backed separatists fighting in Ukraine’s Donetsk region was reportedly killed Friday by an explosion at a cafe.
DONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) – The buzz surrounding the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev has barely created a ripple in eastern Ukraine after being banned by Russian TV – the only broadcasters aired in the war-ravaged region. This vacuum has left enthusiastic
Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst announced the band will play in Donetsk and Luhansk, two areas in war-torn east Ukraine. In early September, the singer stated he wanted to gain Russian citizenship as well.
LGBT Ukrainians living in the nation’s east, center of conflict between Ukraine and neighboring invader Russia, are being forced to flee from their previously tolerant homes in the aftermath of Russian takeovers of towns.
