Ukraine’s army chief says eastern front under intense Russian assault
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s army chief said on Saturday the situation on the eastern front had worsened in recent days as Russia has intensified its armoured assaults and battles rage for control of a village west of the devastated city of Bakhmut. The statement by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi more than two years since Russia’s […]
10 years of conflict: For eastern Ukrainians, the ordeal of war is entering its second decade
MAX HUNDER, of Reuters, reports on life for some in eastern Ukraine…
Zelenskiy tells Ukrainians to prepare for Russian winter onslaught
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians on Sunday to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure as winter approached and said troops were anticipating an onslaught in the eastern theatre of the war. A military spokesman said Russian attacks on the shattered eastern town of Avdiivka had eased in the past day, but […]
Ukraine reports “heavy combat” after Putin says offensive has begun
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Moscow and Kyiv both reported heavy fighting in Ukraine on Friday, with bloggers describing the first sightings of German and US armour, signalling that Ukraine’s long-anticipated counter-attack was under way. With virtually no independent reporting from the front lines and Kyiv saying little, it was impossible to assess whether Ukraine was penetrating Russian […]
Russia says it thwarted major attack in Ukraine but lost some ground
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Moscow said on Monday it had thwarted a major offensive against its forces in eastern Ukraine, although it was unclear whether the attack formed the beginning of Ukraine’s long-anticipated counter-offensive. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was enigmatic in his nightly video, hailing “the news we have been waiting for” in Bakhmut in the east. […]
Fear recedes for Ukraine’s volunteers, for whom war is “just a job”
On the frontline in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine Reuters After months of living in trenches and bunkers near Ukraine’s south-eastern frontlines, Artem and his fellow soldiers have lost the fear they once felt. The war ebbs and flows for the 30-year-old volunteer from a small town near Chernihiv, in the north of the country, that […]
Putin says Moscow to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, first time since 1990s
Reuters Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have based such arms outside the country. Putin made the announcement at a time of growing tensions with the West over the Ukraine war and as some Russian commentators […]
Russia presses along Ukraine front after reports of Bakhmut slowdown
Near Kreminna, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on Friday, even as Kyiv said Moscow’s assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut. Ukrainian military reports described heavy fighting along a line running from Lyman to Kupiansk, as well as in the south at […]
Both Russia, Ukraine report high casualties in Donetsk
Reuters Both Ukraine and Russia on Sunday reported high casualties in Ukraine’s Donbas region, the focus of Moscow’s slow, long-running advance into its neighbour’s territory. Much of the fighting in the east has centred on Bakhmut, largely destroyed in months of attacks and shelling by Russia during the year-old conflict. A view shows an icon […]
Russia tries to close ring on Bakhmut as Ukrainians mount ‘furious resistance’
Near Chasiv Yar, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces carried out relentless attacks on Bakhmut on Wednesday, trying to encircle and storm the small eastern Ukrainian city and claim their first major prize for more than half a year after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Moscow of throwing waves […]