Russian President Vladimir Putin has spared no effort to promote the false historical narrative that Ukrainians and Russians constitute “one nation”. Putin fervently wishes to reassemble the countries of the former Soviet Union and reverse what he calls the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the ...
Saturday 10 August 2024 21:09, UK Russia Ukraine 5:41 ShareSecurity and defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke gives some insight into Ukraine's aims as they continue to push into Russian territory.Why you can trust Sky News Watch Next Elon Musk and son join Trump on stage...
u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin said during a feb. 18, 2022, news conference . what does vladimir putin want out of ukraine? the demands of the russian government are inseparable from those of its authoritarian leader. while analysts are quick to say that they cannot read putin’s ...
When Ukraine’s Moscow-friendly president was driven from office by mass protests in February 2014, Russia responded by annexing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. It then threw its weight behind an insurgency in the mostly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine region known as Donbas. In April 2014...
Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine is approaching its first anniversary. The war being fought by Russian forces today is, however, very different from that being fought when Russia first invaded Ukraine. In February 2022, the Russian attack on Kyiv — seemingly aimed at ...
Image:Vladimir Putin speaks at a rally in Moscow to support the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea to Russia in 2014 What are the chances of Ukraine retaking Crimea by force? Crimea is a huge part of Russia's history and Russia never believed that Crimea was not Russian, re...
Putin's invasion has cost the lives of over 100,000 Russian soldiers, according to U.S. officials. Ukraine's military death toll alone is now thought to be more than 70,000. Tsaplienko said the freedoms Ukraine only recently began to enjoy are what these soldiers died for - and the re...
citizens pray in churches on Christmas Day. Russian tanks, cavalry units, and ski troops advance beneath air support. Villages are liberated and refugees return. In Reel 7, dead and tortured Russian civilians are found. Footage shows prewar Leningrad. Barricades are erected. The city is intensivel...
Image:Much of the city has been levelled to the ground by Russian artillery. Pic: AP Read more: What is the Wagner Group of 'secret' Russian mercenaries? Visions of WWI in the battle for Ukraine's frontline Russia and Ukraine fighting the same battle, 100 years apart ...
Putin has not really reacted in any serious, dramatic way. He didn’t pull much of forces that are now advancing in Donbas in the east of Ukraine were the major axes of Russian effort is around the city of Pokrovsk. He really has scrambled various units from all over Russia and put ...