Putin’s troops lack skill and capability to achieve a breakthrough in Ukraine, says Nato official
Kharkiv region’s governor says Russia is attempting to stretch front line; Ukrainian commander responsible for north-eastern frontline replacedPutin removes Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defence ministerRussia’s new defence minister Andrei Belousov has said that soldiers need better access to housing, hospitals and welfare benefits.Reuters reports:We rejected that at the time and I think the same applies to the different requests that are now being made. Continue reading
Estonia has been "seriously" discussing sending troops to Ukraine in roles positioned away from the front lines, per a national security official.Madis Roll, national security advisor to Estonia's president, told military news outlet Breaking Defense that his country's leaders were assessing the viability of sending Estonian soldiers to "rear" roles that wouldn't see direct combat in Ukraine.Such a move would help relieve Ukraine's manpower crunch and allow it to send more soldiers to the front...
Ukrainian units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s forces in a key northeastern Ukraine town have halted the Russian advance, military officials in Kyiv claimed Thursday, though a senior Moscow official said the frontline push had enough resources to keep going. Russian attempts to establish a foothold in the
Ukraine broke records with a long-distance strike on Russia on Thursday, hitting a target 746 miles from the border.]]>
Russian forces have taken over the village of Kyslivka in Ukraine's Kharkiv region and the village of Novokalynove in the Donetsk region, Russia's defense ministry said on Wednesday.It said in a statement that Russian forces hit military and energy facilities in Ukraine with drones and missiles in retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy facilities.
NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war. Ukraine’s manpower shortage has reached a critical point, and its position on the battlefield in recent weeks has seriously worsened as Russia has accelerated its advances to take advantage of delays in shipments of American weapons. As a result, Ukrainian officials have asked...
Civilians are fleeing the invaders.
"Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. Ukraine will become a member of NATO." The post Ukraine is on ‘irreversible path’ to join NATO says alliance first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
Baltic NATO Country Says It's Ready To Send Troops To Ukraine A Baltic NATO country has belatedly jumped on board and backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea of putting Western boots on the ground in Ukraine. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said in an interview with the Financial Times this week that her country is prepared to deploy troops inside Ukraine. She stipulated it could be part of a training mission for Ukrainian troops if called upon. However, a formal...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) French President Emmanuel Macron’s desperate move to get individual NATO member nations to send their troops into Ukraine so as to stave off and prevent Ukraine’s defeat by Russia in the current war between Russia and Ukraine, was endorsed on April 22nd by the Rhodesist U.S. Council on Foreign Relations’s […]
Minsk, May 4 (Prensa Latina) The peace conference on Ukraine planned in Switzerland for June is meaningless without Russia's participation, Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik said on Saturday. The post Belarus says peace conference on Ukraine without Russia is useless first appeared on Prensa Latina.