The UN on Tuesday announced a last-minute extension for “two additional months” of the ceasefire in force in Yemen, expressing the hope that negotiations will be “intensified” to allow for a more “lasting” peace in the Arab world’s poorest country. where an armed conflict has been raging for some eight years. Facing one of the […]
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How the Russians will use Iranian drones in Ukraine
By Paul Iddon With rumors swirling that Russia will immediately acquire hundreds of ―armed and unarmed‖ drones from Iran, the question inevitably arises of how Moscow plans to use them in Ukraine. When the White House publicized the purported – until now – purchase in mid-July, Samuel Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyzes made […]
The ‘war of the bridge’ is heating up in southern Ukraine
By David Axe Russian engineers attempt to repair a strategically important bridge over the Dnieper River in occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine, days after Ukrainian artillery destroyed the crossing. The Russians, however, are trying to avoid further risks. While repairing the Antonovsky Bridge on the southern fringes of Kherson, they are also deploying floating bridges, […]
The US announced a new package of $550 million in military aid to Ukraine
The US Pentagon announced today that it will provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth about $550 million, which includes, among other things, ammunition for the HIMARS multiple launch missile systems. “In order to meet its growing demands on the battlefield,” the United States will continue to work with its allies and partners […]
Ukraine: Heavy Russian bombing in Mykolaiv
The southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv has been hit by massive Russian shelling, possibly the “heaviest” since the war began in February, which left two dead, authorities said today. “Mykolife suffered massive shelling today. Probably the heaviest so far,” the city’s mayor Oleksandr Senkevich wrote on Telegram, noting that “strong explosions” were heard twice overnight […]
Ukraine requests list of prisoners killed in Donetsk prison
Ukraine’s Coordinating Center for the Handling of Prisoner of War Issues has demanded that Moscow provide a list of prisoners of war killed and wounded in the explosion that occurred Thursday night in Olenevka, Donetsk. The center is also seeking to recover the bodies of the dead and has called on the Red Cross and […]
Ukraine: Kyiv condemns Russian calls to ‘hang’ Azov fighters
Ukraine today denounced calls by Russians to “hang” or inflict a “humiliating death” on fighters from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, a day after a bombing of a detention center where some of the fighters were being held killed more than 50. “Read this when you are told that Russia should not be isolated. There is […]
Russian bombing in southern and eastern Ukraine
Russian shelling hit several locations in southern and eastern Ukraine, killing at least one person in Mykolayiv and destroying a school in Kharkiv, Ukrainian authorities said today. During the night from Friday to Saturday, one civilian was killed and six others were injured in the shelling of a residential area of ​​Mykolayiv (south), where several […]
Medvedev released map showing Ukraine divided between Russia, Poland, Romania and Hungary
The former Russian president and current vice-president of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, in a post he made on Telegram published two maps of Ukraine. “In the mind of the president of Ukraine, damaged by psychoactive substances, this is what the map of his country’s bright future will look like,” Medvedev wrote of […]
Britain: Russia is preparing referendums in the areas it conquered in southern Ukraine
Russian authorities are under pressure and may be preparing to hold referendums to join the territories captured in southern Ukraine into Russia later this year, the British Ministry of Defense said in a briefing. “Local authorities are likely to coerce the population into revealing personal details in order to compile voting registers,” the British ministry […]
