Russia last year blocked exports of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea, a vital part of the global food supply, but they resumed last summer under a fragile pact.
President Biden backs a plan to provide advanced fighter jets to Ukraine and train Ukrainian pilots.
The head of the Wagner Group offered to give up Russian troop positions to Ukraine if it agreed to withdraw from around Bakhmut, leaked documents show.
Ukrainians shouldn’t be worried about the state of their air defences, a spokesman for the country’s Air Force has said, after a Patriot missile system was damaged defending Kyiv against a Russian barrage, Joe Barnes reports.
Ukraine armed forces says Russia carrying out airstrikes on ruined city; Brazil’s president repeats criticism of Biden’s role in conflictWhat we know on day 453 of the invasionA picture is worth a thousand words and the images from the G7 summit in Hiroshima this weekend were a good example of that. Volodymyr Zelenskiy was pictured at the centre of a “family portrait” with G7 leaders at the weekend, symbolising their support for the Ukrainian president.Just less than 10 years ago the G7 was the...
Last ship to leave on Wednesday, a day before Russia may quit Black Sea deal; Zelenskiy welcomes ‘good start’ to F-16 fighter jets coalition announced by UK and NetherlandsThere has been a lot of talk this week about Russia’s “hypersonic” missile, the Kinzhal, and whether the US-supplied Patriot system has the capability of shooting them down. Reuters has this little explainer today, writing:The Patriot system was designed before hypersonic weapons were sent to battlefield and manufacturer...
NINE years ago in Odessa, Ukrainian neo-Nazis burned 42 people alive in the House of Trade Unions and killed six more in the street. I thought the whole world would be horrified by this event, condemning it, calling the organizers and the Kiev authorities to account. Yet the world remained silent, and only Russia appreciated the horror of what had happened. So far, no one has answered for this crime.
U.S. signals to allies it won’t block their export of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. CNN Pentagon Correspondent Oren Liebermann reports.
Kunstler: Fade To Black In Ukraine Authored by Jim Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “Following the ouster of Mr. Trump in 2020, this new-new-left had exactly what it had been clamoring for, a liberal Democrat in the White House. Given the sense of impending catastrophe at present, it may be difficult to remember precisely how much sniveling bullshit went into selling Joe Biden.” - Rob Urie Have you noticed that the president of Ukraine (or, governor of America’s fifty-first state),...
The need for control of the nation’s airspace is one of the war’s largely untold stories.
Some of the heaviest fighting and worst atrocities of the 2022 Russian invasion of Kyiv occurred on Vokzal'na St, just north of the capital.
Some analysts anticipated that Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces would have begun by now. But Ukraine has gained tactical benefits by delaying its action.