Ukrainian TV star Oksana Marchenko, the wife of the country’s arrested opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, released a video on Wednesday pleading to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to assist in freeing her husband. She claims her husband was illegally captured at the personal request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday and …
Read More »Captured Russian sailors freed in Ukraine – Moscow
Fourteen Russian sailors seized by Ukrainians on a cargo vessel in February have now been rescued, according to Tatyana Moskalkova, Russia’s top human rights official. The crew of the cargo ship Azov Concord “has been freed and is being evacuated to safety by our troops,” Moskalkova wrote on social media …
Read More »Alleged execution of Russian POWs captured on video
A gruesome clip emerged on social media on Tuesday, purportedly showing the execution of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian troops. The video starts with the apparent murder of a severely wounded Russian serviceman, who was lying on a road. “Look, he’s still alive. He’s wheezing,” a voice said off …
Read More »Kiev unveils number of captured Russian troops
Ukraine has captured hundreds of Russian soldiers since the beginning of the military conflict with Russia, its Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk claimed on Saturday. “At present, we officially have 562 prisoners of war of the Russian Federation,” she claimed in an interview with television channel TSN. The Russian Ministry of …
Read More »Russia claims to have captured ‘Ukrainian saboteur’
A Ukrainian soldier who was allegedly trying to cross over into Russia from the other side of the shared border has been captured and is being held prisoner, the chief of the country’s security forces has claimed. Speaking at a security council meeting on Monday, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said …
Read More »Black hole eruption as big as 16 Moons captured in ‘most comprehensive’ image
A new study of the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole has revealed that the space phenomenon emits radio bubbles which extend over vast tracts of space when it feeds on infalling gas. In a piece published in Nature Astronomy on December 22, Dr. Benjamin McKinley from the Curtin University …
Read More »Sami Jasim, deputy of slain IS leader Al-Baghdadi, captured by Iraqi forces in ‘external operation’, says PM
In a tweet on Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said that Iraqi intelligence forces had carried out an operation and successfully detained a high-ranking IS member known as Sami Jasim. His full name is understood to be Sami Jasim Muhammad al-Jaburi. Jasim was in charge of IS finance and …
Read More »CIA informants overseas get killed, captured or compromised by dozens, according to media citing TOP SECRET cable
The cable was sent to every CIA station and base around the world last week, according to the report from The New York Times citing officials who had seen the letter. Officials had looked into dozens of cases of informants over the last several years killed, captured, arrested, or compromised …
Read More »4 Palestinian militants captured by police after escaping from Israeli prison by tunnel earlier this week, 2 remain at large
Fugitives Zakaria Zubeidi, the former leader of militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and Mohammed al-Arida were detained at a parking lot in the early hours of Saturday near the northern town of Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam, Israeli media reported, citing police. The Times of Israel quoted a local resident as saying that …
Read More »Taliban celebrates in Kabul after claiming it has captured Panjshir province, resulting in full control of Afghanistan
Tracers streaked across the night sky on Friday evening local time, reminiscent of celebrations on Tuesday following the departure of the last US airplane from Kabul. There were different reports as to the occasion, however, with RT’s senior correspondent Murad Gazdiev hearing both talk of victory in Panjshir and the …
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