Ukraine loses ground near strategic hub of Pokrovsk
Reuters Russian troops destroyed or captured several Ukrainian positions near the eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s military said on Wednesday, as Moscow bears down on the strategic logistics hub that is home to a unique Ukrainian coking mine. After months of accelerating advances towards Pokrovsk, Moscow’s forces are now as close as three kilometres from […]
Zelenskiy touts new “drone missile”, calls Putin “sick old man”
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian “drone missile” on Saturday that he said would take the war back to Russia and scornfully derided Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “sick old man from Red Square”. As Ukraine marked 33 years of post-Soviet independence, Zelenskiy said the new weapon, Palianytsia, was faster […]
Zelenskiy says Ukraine’s shock Kursk attack to pressure Russia and “restore justice”
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to “restore justice” and pressure Moscow’s forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv’s surprise offensive into the western Kursk region. Moscow’s forces on Sunday were in their sixth day of intense battle against Kyiv’s largest incursion into Russian territory since […]
Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces now control area where Russia pushed into Kharkiv region
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops staged an incursion this month in northern parts of Kharkiv region. “Our soldiers have now managed to take combat control of the border area where the Russian occupiers entered,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. […]
Seven dead in Russian strikes on Kharkiv as Kyiv pleads for weapons
Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia pounded Kharkiv with missiles on Thursday, killing seven people in a printing house, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called out his western allies for not providing enough military support to rebuff Russian attacks. Moscow’s forces have hammered the northeastern city for months and launched a ground assault into the north of the […]
Russian forces attack Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, striking on new front
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the north-east of the country and made small inroads, opening a new front in a war that has long been waged in the east and south. Ukraine sent reinforcements as fighting raged in the border areas […]
Questions swirl over future of Ukraine’s popular ‘Iron General’
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters For Ukrainian armed forces commander General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, even his status as national hero for leading the war effort against Moscow’s invading forces is not enough to quash questions over whether he will keep his job. A series of Western and Ukrainian media reports this week said that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had […]
New Russian strikes on Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, top general says fighting further north has worsened
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia’s military pressed on with fierce assaults on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka on Saturday, with shelling so fierce that emergency crews were unable to recover the dead from wrecked buildings, the town’s top administrative official said. It was the fifth straight day of assaults on the town in Ukraine’s industrial […]
Russians pound access routes to Ukraine’s besieged Bakhmut
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine Reuters Russian troops and mercenaries rained artillery on the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, bringing Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war. The head of Russia’s Wagner private army, speaking in a video recorded […]