A top Ukrainian official said Russia has been actively recruiting women from penal colonies to fight in its war with Ukraine.Andriy Yusov, spokesman for Ukraine's military intelligence service (GUR), told the Kyiv Post in a story published on Friday that Moscow's forces have been using the female convicts for active battlefield duty."We are not only talking about auxiliary units, but combat units as well, if needed," Yusov said.Newsweek could not independently verify the claims made by Yusov,...
Two injured in Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Belgorod Oblast
Ukraine’s army chief says situation in industrial east has ‘significantly worsened’ as Russia steps up attacks
Russian forces intensify attacks along the eastern front
Missiles were supplied to Ukraine under a secret deal agreed in March ahead of the £76bn US security package
Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare" While China has spent decades conducting deep espionage throughout US institutions - mostly in the form of plucky PhD candidates handling sensitive projects at American universities, and places like Los Alamos National Laboratory, Congressional Democrats simply can't shake their fixation with Russia. Point in case, during a Wednesday House Oversight hearing on defending...
A spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that a renewed effort in Congress to send more military aid to Ukraine is about "putting guaranteed money" back in U.S. pockets.Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced this week that he would be putting forward a series of standalone bills on foreign aid and border security, finally allowing a House vote on President Joe Biden's requested $61 billion Ukraine aid package after months of partisan gridlock.Dmitry Peskov, Putin's...
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The package could be finalized and announced as soon as Friday, and will include Patriot systems.
Russia Vows To Ramp Up Attacks On Western Weapons In Ukraine Russia's response to the Republican-led House passing Biden's foreign aid package which includes $61 billion in new military assistance for Ukraine has been to promise stepped-up targeting of the Western weapons store houses. A new statement by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu additionally said "The Kiev regime has failed to achieve the goals of its counteroffensive prepared by NATO instructors" and that Russia has...
Russia is ramping up its attacks on Kharkiv—Ukraine's second-largest city—amid fears that Moscow may be gearing up for a full-bore onslaught across the historic region in the northeast.Ukrainian officials said that Russian forces struck down a TV tower in Kharkiv City Monday afternoon, causing the structure to partially collapse and disrupting television signals in the area. The attack comes as the city has been bombarded by airstrikes for weeks, and as Moscow officials have hinted at Kharkiv...
The RAND corporation’s Samuel Charap and Johns Hopkins University professor Sergey Radchenko published a detailed timeline and analysis of the talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators just after the Russian invasion in February 2022 that could have brought the war to an end just weeks after it had begun. Much of the piece confirms or elucidates parts of the narrative that had previously been reported. In the spring of 2022, the two sides appeared relatively close to a deal, one that,...