As many as 3,000 British nationals are fighting alongside Ukrainian troops against Russian forces, Britain’s The Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing a foreign volunteer unit commander. Mamuka Mamulashvili, who leads the so-called Georgian Legion, told journalists that a total of nearly 20,000 foreign fighters are currently serving in volunteer …
Read More »Azov commander boasts about gruesome photos of executed civilians
A Ukrainian officer who at one point commanded the notorious neo-Nazi Azov regiment has gloated on social media over graphic photos of dead members of an opposition party. The activists “disappeared” from the Ukrainian-held city of Severodonetsk in early March and appear to have been extrajudicially executed, with Maksim Zhorin …
Read More »Kiev lied to encircled troops – Ukrainian commander
Kiev has been telling troops besieged by Russian forces in Mariupol that help was on its way, while making no actual attempts to end the blockade of the city, the commander of Ukraine’s 36th Naval Infantry Brigade has told RT. Colonel Vladimir Baranyuk and his unit were tasked with guarding …
Read More »Kiev lied to keep troops fighting in Mariupol, Ukrainian commander says
Kiev has been telling troops besieged by Russian forces in Mariupol that help was on its way, while making no actual attempts to end the blockade of the city, the commander of Ukraine’s 36th Naval Infantry Brigade has told RT. Colonel Vladimir Baranyuk and his unit were tasked with guarding …
Read More »Besieged Ukrainian commander appeals to Turkey
Sergey Volina, the commander of Ukraine’s 36th Marines brigade, which is still entrenched at the Azovstal steel plant in the Black Sea port-city of Mariupol together with the neo-Nazi Azov regiment, has called on Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “extract” Ukrainian troops from the city. The commander was talking …
Read More »Iran won’t abandon quest for Soleimani vengeance – commander
Iran will not give up on its cause to avenge Major General Qassem Soleimani, a senior military commander killed by the US in 2020, even if Washington offers to lift its sanctions, a top official with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said. Soleimani was assassinated on January 3, …
Read More »US Navy fires commander at vital F-35 facility
The US Navy has fired the commanding officer of Fleet Readiness Center East in North Carolina due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to command.” The facility is responsible for overhauling the Navy’s variant of the next-generation F-35 fighter jet – which, although it is already the most …
Read More »Top Neo-Nazi commander killed in Ukraine – Russia
Russian commandos have killed a prominent member of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector group, the Russian defense ministry claimed on Monday. Taras Bobanich was accused by Moscow of causing hundreds of civilian deaths in eastern Ukraine during hostilities in 2014. A Russian recon team killed the top Neo-Nazi while on patrol about 5km …
Read More »Top civilian commander at US air base led child sex abuse ring
The US Army and the State of Arizona missed multiple red flags that allowed a senior civilian commander at an air base in Afghanistan to lead a child sex abuse ring over the course of a decade, according to records reviewed by AP. The news agency has interviewed one of …
Read More »Deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet killed in Ukraine
Deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Captain 1st rank Andrey Paliy, was killed in combat near the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, multiple senior Russian officials said on Sunday. Yekaterina Altabaeva, Senator for the Crimean city of Sevastopol, the home port of the Black Sea Fleet, was first to break …
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