"What is happening now is just genocide of the Ukrainian people, both Ukrainian and Russian." Officers from Russia's GRU military intelligence outfit had previously said on Russian state television that they received the order for Mr Kuzminov's execution. One officer said: "We'll find the...
Next year, more than half of all Ukrainian budget spending is planned for the defence sector to fund the war effort against Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022. "The priorities are clearly set in the budget. All our internal resources will go so we can wi...
Falsehood 1: A U.S. intelligence report said China told Russia that it would not prevent Russia from taking actions in Ukraine,while asking Russia not to do it before the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics. It also said that Russia has asked China for assistance including weapons and other ...
Sikorski added that Russia had already spent around half of its reserve budget. "If you put your economy on a crisis or war footing, your GDP rises because you are producing more shells and tanks and all the things that are going to get destroyed, but you're also wasting the resources ...
The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said Monday that Russian forces were aiming to capture the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk by May 9, the date on which Russia commemorates Soviet victory in World War II. ...
We are living in a world that is beginning to behave like the players scrambling for seats in a game of musical chairs. In each round of amusical chairs game, one chair is removed from the circle. The players in the game must walk around the outside of the circle. When the music...
Analysis How Russia used Duma elections to increase its influence in occupied territories Soso Dzamukashvili Handing out passports to Russians living in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova offers the Kremlin a convenient excuse to exert further pressure on... ...
After Russia, the Ukrainian republic was far and away the most important economic component of the former Soviet Union, producing about four times the output of the next-ranking republic. Its fertile black soil generated more than one-fourth of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms provided ...
Ukrainian developerMacPawtoday released SpyBuster, a new (and completely free!) Mac app that identifies software built by and reporting to “undesirable countries of origin” — such as Russia and Belarus. SpyBuster also lets you block those connections so that you can prevent additional data bei...
A Pentagon spokesman, Jeff Jurgensen, referred questions to the Ukrainian government, saying: “While we’re aware of the reporting on this issue, and we’d expect Russia may attempt to leverage any technology that might give them an operational advantage against Ukraine, we have no additional d...