The ratification of Sweden’s NATO application has taken time, as both Turkey and Hungary have refused. On Tuesday, an overwhelming majority in Turkey’s National Assembly voted to approve Sweden’s application for NATO membership. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now has two weeks to formally sign the document – before everything is ready from the Turkish side. … Read more
At the start of the year, there were reports from both the US and Ukraine which confirmed that Russia had used North Korean weapons and ammunition in the war in Ukraine. – This is a significant and worrying escalation of North Korea’s support for Russia, said John Kirby in the US National Security Council when … Read more
At a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the US of giving Ukraine old scrap weapons while building up its own military. In November, The Washington Post wrote that of the $68 billion in military aid Congress approved for Ukraine, almost 90 percent went … Read more
That is according to the Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski The Guardian and Sky News. Read all about the war in Ukraine! The war in Ukraine is intensifying. On Tuesday, Russia carried out a massive attack against several Ukrainian cities. Close to 99 rockets and cruise missiles of various types rained down on civilian targets. … Read more
Ramzan Kadyrov, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, spoke during a meeting with commanders and leaders of units under the Chechen Ministry of the Interior and the National Guard. – If someone violates public security, an officer or a tourist, and if we don’t even find the offender, we will not … Read more
The attacks on Belgorod come a day after an 18-hour Russian bombing campaign killed at least 39 people in Ukraine. According to Belgorod’s governor, the Ukrainian attacks on Saturday hit, among other things, a residential area in the city, which is around three miles from the border with Ukraine. In a Telegram message, Governor Vyacheslav … Read more
Putin said this at a meeting with defense officials on Tuesday. Defense Minister Sergej Shoigu says that Russia has increased the production of tanks by 5.6 times, and that a minefield has been laid out that stretches over 7,000 square kilometers. Ever since Ukraine faced the first wave of attacks when Russia launched its full-scale … Read more
These are some of the scenarios painted in a new intelligence analysis. According to Institute for the study of war (ISW) the West risks the complete collapse of the Ukrainian resistance if economic and military support for Ukraine decreases or disappears. “A Russian conquest of the whole of Ukraine is by no means impossible” Should … Read more
The American state-funded media organization Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has obtained a video from the Ukrainian defense which allegedly shows Russian soldiers using Ukrainian prisoners of war as shields. The video has not been verified by independent sources, and it has not been possible to date it, reports Newsweek. It is said to have … Read more
(This article is republished through our collaboration with The Kyiv Independent – Ukraine’s leading English-language publication. If you would like to support their wartime journalism, please consider becoming a member via this link). Up to 800,000 Russians have moved to the occupied Crimean peninsula since its illegal annexation in 2014, and around 100,000 Ukrainians have … Read more