Although the Ukrainian government continued to assert that Crimea was Ukrainian territory, it initiated the evacuation of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops and their dependents from the peninsula. Russian troops had seized the bulk of the Ukrainian fleet while it was in port, and the headq...
in 1940, after the addition of western Karelia, it was given full union-republic status; and in 1956 Karelia reverted to its present status. Russiansconstitutethe majority of the population, but there are also Karelians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Finns. The republic is only sparsely inhabite...
The Russian capture of Avdiivka and its military’s slow subsequent advance this spring has come at the cost of thousands of deaths of its own servicemen, to say nothing of Ukrainian losses. Since the summer of 2022, Russian commanders have repeatedly sent their soldiers on suicidal assaults,...
In the same post, the ministry said that the building struck by Ukrainian missiles was little more than 7.5 miles from the front line, within "one of the most contested areas of the conflict," in the Donetsk region. Workers clear rubble after a deadly Ukrainian rocket strike on a building ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Rescuers searched the rubble at a children’s hospital Tuesday for more dead and wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day after Russian missiles slammed into the facility and cities across the country in a massive daytime barrage. ...
and at the same time the person to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths not only of Ukrainians, but also of Russians. It is clear that he will not last long in this state. Not to mention such a trifle as his sick, wounded ego, repeatedly insulted by Ukraine. But victory would ...
Turkey has been trying to work with U.N. and the warring countries to help clear the way for Ukrainian grain to be exported to Turkish ports, though no deal on the issue appeared imminent. A Ukrainian presidential adviser urged European nations to respond with "more sanctions, more weapons"...
(likehere inNature) about whether journals should boycott authors from Russia. They should in my view, but it is a pointless debate anyway. All the big publishers, Elsevier, Springer Nature et al,recognised already in 2015the occupied Ukrainian Crimea peninsula as part of Russia. And ...
Ukrainians are fine, hard-working people (I know several) who will no doubt integrate well (and much better than most other refugees), but I have said many times that the UK is GROSSLY OVERCROWDED. Our population should be NO MORE than 50 million, instead of the 70 million it is now....
so it must be good. Watch below! Here's the trailer for Fedor Alexandrovich's The Russian Woodpecker (via SlashFilm): The Russian Woodpecker is directed by Fedor Alexandrovich, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster who discovers a dark secret about what was deemed an accident an...