Wagner’s forces have been leading the all-out, months-long assault for Bakhmut. Moscow: The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said Thursday his forces had started transferring their positions in the flashpoint eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut to the Russian military. “We are withdrawing units from Bakhmut today,” Yevgeny Prigozhin, shown in full combat gear, said…
BEIJING: Pressure from the West is strengthening Russia’s ties with China, Russian prime minister Mikhail Mishustin said in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing Wednesday.Mishustin’s visit comes as Russia is increasingly turning to China for diplomatic and economic support amid growing isolation over its invasion of Ukraine.In opening remarks at his meeting Wednesday…
Russia’s private army Wagner claimed Saturday the total control of the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the epicentre of fighting, as Kyiv said the battle was continuing, while admitting the situation was “critical”. Ukrainian soldiers launch a drone at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region. The announcement by Wagner came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
S Jaishankar said, “It’s not a zero-sum game between us.” (FILE) Mysuru (Karnataka): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that India has tried to help out in the Russia-Ukraine conflict not because China did something but because the situation in Ukraine deserved that. While speaking at an interactive session on the Foreign Policy…
By India Today World Desk: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (local time) revealed that he carries a pistol with him and said he would have fought to the death if the Russians had mounted an attack on his office in Kyiv at the start of the war. In an interview with 1+1 television channel,…
The invasion of Ukraine is a graphic illustration of how the nature of war never changes. It is an aspect of the human condition that is as irrational, brutal, feral, unbounded and disappointing now as it has been since man first took up a stick against his fellow. When people fight knowing that their personal…
On a promotional video a dog-biscuit hurtles into the air and two dogs fly upwards to intercept it. Until the Russian invasion in February 2022, Yaroslav Azhnyuk ran a company that makes pet monitors which can distribute treats. Now he is helping entrepreneurs intercept cruise missiles. Ukraine’s war has led to an explosion of engineering…
By Reuters: Moscow has seen “practically no results” from a pact with the United Nations that aimed to help Russia’s grain and fertilizer exports and blamed Western countries for creating a deadlock, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. Russia has signaled that unless a list of demands is met to remove obstacles to those…
Russia’s defence ministry on Sunday said its forces had captured more territory in Bakhmut as they pursue their bid to seize full control of the city.The battle for Bakhmut has turned into one of the bloodiest of the 14-month war, with the Eastern Ukrainian city almost completely destroyed by artillery shelling and urban combat.Russia says…
