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Military: Russian forces using chemical weapons to storm Ocheretyne, situation ‘difficult’
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Russian forces are deploying chemical weapons in an attempt to capture the village of Ocheretyne in Donetsk Oblast, Nazar Voloshyn, the spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia Group…
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Poland’s leader says his country is ready to host NATO members’ nuclear weapons to counter
Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the military alliances’s other members in response to Russia’s moving its nuclear weapons to neighboring BelarusApril 22, 2024, 8:40 AM ET• 2 min readWARSAW, Poland -- Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the…
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Russia suffers setback in push to capture critical fortress city: UK
Russian troops are stalling in their Donetsk offensive, having "made only slow progress" around the strategic eastern town of Chasiv Yar, according to new analysis. The settlement is key to Kyiv's defensive line in eastern Ukraine and has become a prime target for Moscow.Ukraine's army chief, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, has previously…
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U.S. pushes allies over seized Russia assets at IMF and World Bank meetings
The House is expected later today to approve $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, ending six months of squabbling over continued U.S. funding of the war against Russia.But the diplomatic battle over how to pay the rest of Ukraine’s bills is only getting started.At the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in…
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Russia’s ‘Turtle Tank’ – its Latest Battlefield Innovation to Combat Kyiv FPV Drones
Innovative Russian army tankers fighting in the eastern Krasnohorivka sector deployed a T-72 tank rigged with plywood sheets, roof paneling, and a mine plow in an attempt to defeat Ukrainian drone swarms, another example of the intensification of the arms race between the Kremlin's conventional army forces and Ukrainian crowd-sourced…
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War maps reveal how Russia could attack NATO
Ukrainian battlefield defeat will further imperil NATO's eastern flank with Russia, according to strategic maps published by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) warning that only renewed and major United States aid can prevent frontline collapse."Ukraine cannot hold the present lines now without the rapid resumption of US assistance,…
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Ukraine war live updates: Putin gives first comments on Iran attack; Ukraine ‘ran out of
34 Mins Ago'Active hostilities' unfolding in Chasiv Yar area, an immediate target for Russia"Active hostilities" are unfolding in the area around the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, with a Russian official claiming that Russian forces will soon seize the town.Denis Pushilin, the head of the separatist, self-proclaimed Donetsk…
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Ukraine war live updates: Russia steps up offensive in east Ukraine as forces look to seize
56 Mins AgoIran reportedly set to give Russia access to citizen on seized vesselIn this Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, photo the MSC Aries, right, is seen moored at the Port of Los Angeles.Damian Dovarganes | APIran is reportedly ready to give Russian authorities access to a Russian citizen on board a cargo vessel it seized days ago.The ship, the…
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Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil refineries deepen tensions with U.S.
BRUSSELS — When Vice President Harris met privately with Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference in February, she told the Ukrainian leader something he didn’t want to hear: Refrain from attacking Russian oil refineries, a tactic U.S. officials believed would raise global energy prices and invite more aggressive Russian retaliation…
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Drones are crowding Ukraine’s skies, largely paralyzing battlefield
DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — So many drones patrol the skies over Ukraine’s front lines — hunting for any signs of movement — that Ukrainian and Russian troops have little ability to move on the battlefield without being spotted, and blown up.Instead, on missions, they rush from one foxhole to another, hoping the pilots manning the enemy drones…
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