Russia's Wagner Trying to Recruit Over 1,500 Felons for Ukraine War -U.S. Official More By Idrees Ali (Reuters) -The Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, is trying to recruit over 1,500 convicted felons to take part in Russia's war in Ukraine...
Russia and Ukraine have what either side might describe as a common or complicated legacy that dates back a thousand years. In the last century, Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe, was one of the most populous and powerful republics in the former USSR as well as an agricultural eng...
2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Five people including a teenage girl were injured on March 25, 2024 during a Russian missile attack on Kyiv, where falling debris also damaged at least two buildings in central districts.
"Good, we don't need anything foreign in our skies," says a second Santa in Russian, sitting in what appears to be a control room. Ukraine Centre for Countering Disinformation shared the video, saying that Russia's "paranoia about the 'NATO threat' has reached new heights". Ukrainian jour...
Ukraine already suffers from a lack of trained soldiers capable of fighting, and demobilizing soldiers on the front lines now would deprive its forces of the most capable fighters. Meanwhile, in what private energy operator DTEK described as one of the most powerful attacks this year, missiles...
Ukraine is “capable of mounting a serious opposition” against Russian forces at this point, Thomas Graham of the Council on Foreign Relations told CNBC on Friday. “The Ukrainians are very proud of what they’ve done. They’re proud of their country, they’re proud of their in...
Tension between Russia and its western neighbor, Ukraine, erupted into war in late February 2022, when Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched what Ukrainian officials calleda "full-scale invasion." For weeks, even as Moscow insisted it hadno plansfor an invasion, it had beenmovingtroops and weap...
“Russia is a criminal three times over: it bombed Syria to ruins, occupied part of Ukraine, and is now selling stolen Ukrainian grain to Syria,” the ministry’s press service cited Dmytro Kuleba as saying. “I want to remind the participants in this deal: what is stolen has never brou...
On Thursday, Beijing released what it called a 12-point peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war. It calls for negotiations toward a ceasefire and the lifting of Western sanctions against Russia. Thomas-Greenfield was skeptical of the plan, and of Beijing's broader goals. ...
Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of using toxic chemicals in more than 200 attacks on the battlefield in January alone, a sharp increase in what it said were recorded instances of their use by Russian forces since they invaded two years ago. ...