Source link Kiev claims its 2023 counteroffensive was derailed because the battle plans were leaked Ukraine’s large-scale counteroffensive last year was most likely foiled due to Russian spies operating in Kiev, President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed, while promising that the next offensive will be more successful. In an interview with the German media conglomerate Axel […]
Source link Washington maintains it doesn’t “support or enable” Kiev’s deep strikes, while Paris argues they’re legitimate “It’s our policy from Day One, when it comes to Ukraine, to do everything we can to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression. At the same time, we have neither supported nor enabled strikes by Ukraine outside […]
Source link A heavy armored fighting vehicle that was supposed to be a revolutionary innovation of the Ukrainian military has been found by Russian troops broken down and buried, according to a video made public on Friday. Engineers sympathetic to the neo-Nazi ‘Azov’ regiment created the ‘Azovets’ (Azovite) in 2015, by converting a Soviet-era T-64 […]
Source link With Kiev fighting Moscow, the bloc has saved its own troops, Jens Stoltenberg has said Western military support for Ukraine has allowed the bloc to weaken Russia without sending its own soldiers to die on the battlefield, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said. Speaking at a summit of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels […]
Source link Russia’s military has already been testing countermeasures against the fighter jets, the outlet reported There may be little value in Ukraine deploying Western-provided F-16 fighter jets because Russia has already taken measures to counter them, according to comments made by Ukrainian military officials to Politico. The officials, who spoke to the outlet on […]
Source link The US Secretary of State has criticized Kiev’s cross-border drone attacks, while France’s foreign minister has tacitly endorsed them The US and France, two key NATO members, have failed to see eye to eye on Ukraine’s drone strikes, which are increasingly targeting facilities deep inside Russia. Standing next to each other during a […]
Source link A ‘rally around the flag’ effect could disarm the populist surge, Charles Sapin has suggested With polls showing ‘nationalist’ parties surging in popularity ahead of the upcoming European Parliament election, Kiev’s worsening situation could prove useful to the bloc’s powers that be, according to a new book by French investigative journalist Charles Sapin. […]
Source link The large-scale attack also targeted anti-aircraft defenses, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said Russia carried out a large-scale attack against the Ukrainian energy sector and its anti-aircraft defenses overnight on Thursday to Friday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Friday. The attack involved different types of projectiles, including hypersonic air-launched Kinzhal […]
Source link Mikhail Podoliak has blamed weapons and ammo shortages for Kiev’s inability to mount major operations against Russia Ukrainian forces have reached a state of “stagnation” on the battlefield because the West is failing to provide Kiev with enough military equipment to make any substantial progress, President Vladimir Zelensky’s top adviser has said. Speaking […]
Source link Mikhail Podoliak has blamed weapons and ammo shortages for Kiev’s inability to mount major operations against Russia Ukrainian forces have reached a state of “stagnation” on the battlefield because the West is failing to provide Kiev with enough military equipment to make any substantial progress, President Vladimir Zelensky’s top adviser has said. Speaking […]
Source link Ukraine can use Telegram for influence operations but the messaging application still represents a threat, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR), Kirill Budanov, said on Wednesday. In comments sent to the media by Kiev’s Center for Strategic Communications, Budanov admitted the wide reach of the encrypted instant-messaging platform, calling it […]
Source link The latest strikes were also aimed at nationalist military units and foreign mercenaries, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian military has carried out long-range strikes on Ukrainian command and control facilities and its defense industrial base, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow. In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry said that […]
Source link Anyone committing crimes against Russia is a marked man, security service chief Aleksandr Bortnikov has said Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kirill Budanov, should be considered a valid target for Russian troops, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, told journalists on Tuesday. The same principle should be applied to anyone […]
Source link Kiev has also halted electricity exports after a series of attacks on its energy system Ukrainian electricity imports have risen almost threefold, according to the Energy Ministry in Kiev, which also said the country has ceased almost all exports of electrical power following Russian strikes on infrastructure. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko previously […]
Source link Ukraine’s very survival could be at stake unless the West sends more military aid, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday. The head of the Pentagon was in Germany for a meeting of the so-called Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, in his first overseas trip since his hospitalization in […]