Draft officers are within their rights to use lethal force in “self-defense” against citizens, a Ukrainian regional enlistment authority warned on Tuesday. The head draft office of the western Ukrainian region of Volyn stated that officers had already been instructed to use lethal force in situations requiring self-defense. “All personnel …
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Shot-down Ukrainian drones full of NATO electronics – Minsk
The Belarusian Defense Ministry has published footage of the wreckage of the Ukrainian drones that were shot down in its airspace earlier this week. The video, which was posted to Telegram, demonstrated the charred metallic fragments of what appear to be a wing and parts of the hull of a …
Read More »Fire breaks out at nuclear plant after Ukrainian attack – governor (VIDEO)
The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has caught fire after being shelled by Ukrainian forces, the governor of Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, Evgeny Balitsky, announced on Sunday. The fire is under control, the official added. The fire broke out following a Ukrainian attack on the nearby city of Energodar on Sunday …
Read More »Another Ukrainian fighter jet taken out by Russian strike (VIDEO)
Russia has claimed a third successful tactical missile strike on a Ukrainian airfield this week, with a MiG-29 fighter jet said to have been eliminated on the ground in Dnepropetrovsk Region. The latest reported Iskander strike hit the Dolgintsovo airfield, located some 10km east of the city Krivoy Rog. The …
Read More »Russian reporter dies of injuries from Ukrainian attack
One of the members of the NTV crew wounded in the Ukrainian shelling of Gorlovka, in the Donetsk People’s Republic, has died of his injuries. Photographer Valery Kozhin was working with journalist Aleksey Ivliev on Thursday when they came under mortar fire. A Russian military officer accompanying the crew was …
Read More »Russia having ‘tactical success’ near Kharkov, Ukrainian military admits
Russian forces currently hold the upper hand in fighting near the city of Kharkov, Ukraine’s general staff said on Monday. After Russia captured multiple towns and villages over the weekend, some Ukrainian troops blamed their superiors for putting up inadequate defenses. Moscow launched a large-scale offensive on Ukraine’s Kharkov Region …
Read More »Ukrainian government warns citizens of possible full mobilization
The entire Ukrainian society would need to make sacrifices and forget about their peaceful lives to defeat such an enemy as Russia, Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Lazutkin has argued. Kiev is overhauling its military service system to boost conscription numbers following a series of setbacks in its conflict with Moscow, …
Read More »Russia hits Ukrainian military HQ – MOD
Russia has carried out a strike on the Ukrainian military headquarters commanding troops in the southern sector of the front, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has announced. In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry said that the military installation, Ukrainian troops and hardware, were hit by combined air, missile and artillery …
Read More »‘No one’ willing to join Ukrainian army – soldier
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 …
Read More »Russia destroys Ukrainian drone base – MOD
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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