Two explosions reported on the Russian side of the border with Ukraine were the result of incoming artillery shells, officials have claimed, amid an escalating military stand-off across the border in the Donbass. In a statement issued on Saturday, the FSB security service in the southern Rostov Region said that …
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In the early evening of February 12, 2022, a Russian Pacific Fleet naval exercise turned very real. The purpose of the exercise was, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, to practice the “search and elimination of a hypothetical enemy’s submarines in the areas of their possible deployment.” The exercise involved …
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Russia may attack Ukraine on Saturday, starting with a “decapitating” strike against the government in Kiev before a full-scale invasion, warned the Institute for the Study of War, a star-studded Washington, DC think-tank. “The attack would likely begin with an air and missile campaign targeting much of Ukraine to decapitate …
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Ukraine does not expect thousands of Russian tanks and troops charging over its border any time soon, the head of Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation revealed on Thursday. Speaking to Ukrainian television channel TSN on Thursday, Alexander Pavliuk stated that Moscow would not unleash an all-out invasion on his country, in …
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The Kremlin masterminded a fake military drawback from the border with Ukraine as part of a broader plan to disguise Russia’s true intentions to invade, The Washington Post has claimed, citing anonymous US intelligence sources. In a report published on Thursday, the American outlet also said that the same plot …
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Russian quad-jumping prodigy Alexandra Trusova could not contain her anger as the teenage star settled for Olympic silver in Beijing despite producing a historic free skate routine on Thursday. The 17-year-old Trusova became the first female skater ever to land five quadruple jumps in one program as she amassed a tally …
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Attempts to work out when Russia might begin an invasion of Ukraine, despite the Kremlin’s insistence that war isn’t on the cards, only discredit Western intelligence agencies, Moscow has blasted as tensions continue to rise on the shared border between the two Eastern European nations. In a series of comments …
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An unprecedented number of public statements from Western spies insisting that Russia may be about to launch an invasion of Ukraine are likely to be based more on what analysts thought Moscow was about to do, rather than evidence that it was about to do it, in an information campaign …
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Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova has been crowned Olympic champion in Beijing, finishing ahead of Alexandra Trusova while teammate and competition favorite Kamila Valieva had to settle for fourth. Shcherbakova, 17, produced a spellbinding free skate routine to amass a points tally of 255.95 across her two performances, giving her …
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Russia’s fearsome forces will be ready to launch an invasion of Ukraine in the second half of February, Estonia has claimed, pushing back estimates from Western officials and media outlets that an incursion could be expected earlier this week. In a statement on Tuesday, the NATO member state’s foreign intelligence service …
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