EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has insisted that member states don’t want their citizens to die in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but that the bloc will keep supporting Kiev with military and financial aid. Since the beginning of the conflict, the EU has provided Kiev with as much as €100 …
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Resistance to the continued military draft in Ukraine has taken some extreme forms, a soldier serving with an infamous neo-Nazi Azov regiment told a local TSN online news media outlet. “Literally no one” is willing to go to the frontlines, the serviceman admitted. The man identified only by his combat …
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The Russian military has carried out several strikes that destroyed Ukrainian warehouses storing attack drones, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry noted that the operation involved combined attacks by Russian tactical warplanes, missiles, and artillery. The strike targeted UAV hangars at the …
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France must open a debate on building up a pan-European defense capability, to include rethinking its own nuclear potential, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Speaking to a group of young people at the European School in Strasbourg on Friday, Macron stressed that while France is already protected by NATO, …
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Ukraine is having a hard time fighting Russia, the commander-in-chief of the nation’s armed forces, General Aleksandr Syrsky, has admitted this week. The situation on the front lines is “difficult,” he told Kiev’s Western backers during a virtual Ramstein group meeting on Friday. His words came amid the continued Russian …
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A large part of Western aid to Kiev is being embezzled by Ukrainian officials, despite President Vladimir Zelensky’s assurances that it is being used in the fight against Russia, a top French politician has said. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, Florian Philippot, leader of the Patriots (Les …
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Russia repelled a wave of attempted Ukrainian drones strikes on oil refineries and energy infrastructure in the southern Krasnodar Region on Saturday, the local governor has said. Air defenses foiled “an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack” and intercepted more than ten drones over the …
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Antony Blinken traveled to China this week to warn Beijing about sanctions for supplying military technology to Russia, according to the Financial Times and Bloomberg in their previews of the US secretary of state’s visit. They didn’t specify which sanctions might follow, although FT sources suggested that financial and other …
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The Ukraine conflict is Washington’s doing and the US is deliberately trying to prolong the fighting, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Friday during a meeting with his counterparts from Asian nations. Shoigu is taking part in a gathering of military chiefs from members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization …
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The US-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems, known as ATACMS, will allow Ukrainian forces to target Russia’s Crimean Peninsula “more effectively,” the New York Times has reported, citing senior Pentagon officials. Washington secretly sent Kiev an unspecified number of longer-range ATACMS missiles last month, US officials confirmed earlier this week, after …
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