Russia is likely to keep pressing its advantage, sensing that Ukraine is weakened. It battered Avdiivka with scores of glide bombs and relentless shelling in recent days, leaving the defenders with no place to hide, according to a senior Ukrainian officer involved in the battle. ...
The question of the secret German-Russian contacts in the winter of 1916-1917, whose object was to get Russia out of the war, has held the attention of both Soviet and foreign researchers for many years. Interest in it has become more lively in recent years as documents about the meetings...
Like other artillery positions along the 1,000-km (621-mile) contact line in eastern and southern Ukraine, they do not have the shells they need to suppress the Russian attacks that threaten to turn the course of the war in Moscow's favor. "If we compare it with the beginning (of the...
Philippine government investigators have filed criminal complaints including sedition against Vice President Sara Duterte over her public threat to have the president assassinated if she herself was killed in an escalating political storm Associated PressFeb. 12, 2025...
The EU relied on Russia for as much as 40% of its gas needs before the war — rising to 55% for Germany — leaving a huge gap to fill in an already tight global gas market. Some countries have responded by temporarily reversing plans to shut coal power plants. ...
But he has returned to his past way of life after leaving politics behind. "The last time I spoke in the House of Commons, I said that the defence of the UK began in Ukraine," Mr Lopresti - who says he prefers being called Jack (short for Giacomo) - toldSunday...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told Russia it cannot win the war as Kyiv counts more gains on the battlefield, both in the south and the east.
the Kherson region and had recaptured 41 settlements, Zaluzhnyi said on Telegram Thursday. He attributed Russia's withdrawal from a chunk of Kherson, that was announced yesterday, to Ukraine destroying the logistics routes and support system, leaving Russian units "no other option than to flee....
In leaving the western half ofKherson, the Russians have pulled back from thousands of square kilometers, including some of Ukraine’s best farmland, which it has occupied since the early days of the invasion. Surovikin said that the withdrawal would protect the lives of civilians and troops ...
Many of Avdiivka’s residents had already fled before the full-scale invasion, leaving the city with a pre-war population of around 30,000. “Most of the people remaining in the city are elderly, mostly men. They [stayed because] did not want to leave their homes,” Soloviy explained....