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Wednesday, 13 September 2023 04:56
What to know after Day 566 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Putin offers estimate of Ukrainian losses Russian President Vladimir Putin has provided an update on the casualties the Ukrainian military incurred since their operation commenced in early June. He further noted that Kiev had not achieved the anticipated results it had initially sought. Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Tuesday: “There are losses, big losses. Since the start of this counteroffensive, the casualties [have reached] 71,500 people.” The president claimed that Kiev is seeking to achieve results “at any cost,” which makes it look like the Ukrainian leadership does not care about its own…
Tuesday, 12 September 2023 04:53
What to know after Day 565 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainians blame Zelensky for corruption – poll The vast majority of Ukrainians believe that President Vladimir Zelensky is at fault for widespread corruption in the country’s government and military, a new study has revealed. The poll, released on Monday, found that 78% of Ukrainian adults see Zelensky as “directly responsible” for Kiev’s corruption problem. It was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Charitable Foundation and the Kiev International Institute of Sociology. Prior to the launch of Russia’s military offensive in February 2022, Ukraine consistently ranked among the world’s most corrupt nations, but it was touted as a…
Monday, 11 September 2023 04:46
What to know after Day 564 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 2 foreign aid workers and target Kyiv Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization, while dozens of Russian drones targeted Kyiv and wounded at least one civilian. The four volunteers from the Road to Relief group, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on…
Sunday, 10 September 2023 04:42
What to know after Day 563 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city's central districts, officials said. The scale of the attack was not immediately known. Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city's…
Saturday, 09 September 2023 04:49
What to know after Day 562 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Our partners have eased up on sanctions on Russia Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that his country's allies had eased sanctions on Russia and called for a renewed drive to impose further punitive measures on Moscow. "At this time, we see too long a pause by our partners in terms of sanctions," he said in his nightly video address. "And very active Russian attempts to evade sanctions." Zelenskiy said keeping the pressure on Moscow should focus on Russia's energy sector, its access to microelectronics and its financial sector. "There are three priorities: further sanctions…
Friday, 08 September 2023 04:53
What to know after Day 561 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine reports some successes in counteroffensive against Russian forces Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday singled out military units in the east and south for their actions against Russian troops and other officials reported some breakthroughs in a counteroffensive to reclaim Russian-occupied territory. The general staff of Ukraine's armed forces described a "partial success" near the eastern city of Bakhmut, long a focal point of fighting. And it said Ukrainian troops were making gradual progress in their southward advance to the Sea of Azov. Russian accounts of the fighting said their troops had beaten back Ukrainian attacks near…
Thursday, 07 September 2023 03:43
What to know after Day 560 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian attack kills 17 in east Ukraine as Blinken visits Kyiv, officials say At least 17 people were killed and 32 wounded in a Russian attack on a crowded market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka on Wednesday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said. Footage circulated online by presidential officials showed people falling to the ground or running for cover after a huge explosion in front of them, seconds after some looked up to the sky when they heard what sounded like a missile approaching. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the attack,…
Wednesday, 06 September 2023 04:47
What to know after Day 559 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine's defence systems engaged in repelling air attack over Kyiv - Ukraine's military Ukraine's air defence systems were engaged early on Wednesday in repelling a Russian air attack on Kyiv, the capital's military administration said on the Telegram messaging app. Reuters' witnesses heard several blasts which sounded like air defence systems being deployed. All of Ukraine was under air raid alerts as of 0550 a.m. (0250 GMT). ** Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger at losses, disarray Ukraine’s counteroffensive was in its second month when Andrey, a Russian soldier, called his wife to say his unit was taking…
Tuesday, 05 September 2023 04:48
What to know after Day 558 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine's counteroffensive has 'failed' – Putin Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive has not “stalled” but failed, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Monday. With Ukrainian losses mounting and Kiev ramping up its conscription efforts, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu affirmed his commander-in-chief's assessment. The Ukrainian operation “is not stalled; it is a failure,”Putin declared, following talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the resort city of Sochi. “At least, this is how it looks today,” he continued. “Let’s see what happens next. I hope this will continue to be the case.” In early June, Kiev launched its long-awaited counteroffensive…
Monday, 04 September 2023 04:30
What to know after Day 557 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian warplanes sink speedboats with Ukrainian landing force – Moscow Russian warplanes have prevented yet another landing attempt by Ukrainian forces, destroying four US-made military speedboats and their crews in the Black Sea west of the Crimean Peninsula, the Defense Ministry said on Monday morning. Russian Black Sea Fleet naval aviation aircraft “destroyed four US-made Willard Sea Force high-speed military boats with landing groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the military said. The landing force was reportedly heading towards Cape Tarkhankut, the westernmost part of the Crimean Peninsula, in yet another botched landing attempt, according to the …
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Sunday, 03 September 2023 04:34
What to know after Day 556 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Two more ships pass through Black Sea corridor, Zelenskiy says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that two more ships had passed through a "temporary" Black Sea shipping corridor established since Russia withdrew from a U.N.-backed grain export deal in July. "Two ships have successfully passed through our temporary 'grain corridor'," Zelenskiy posted on X, previously known as Twitter. The president did not identify the vessels involved or say when they had completed their passage. Officials on Friday said two vessels had cleared the corridor -- bringing to four the number that have used it. Zelenskiy said…
Saturday, 02 September 2023 04:27
What to know after Day 555 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainian naval drones target Crimean Bridge – MOD Multiple attempted attacks by Ukrainian maritime drones on the strategic bridge which links the Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland were foiled on Friday evening and early Saturday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed. “On September 1, at about 11:15pm Moscow time, the Kiev regime attempted to launch a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge using a semi-submersible unmanned boat,” the ministry said in a brief statement, adding that the hostile craft was “promptly detected and destroyed” in the Black Sea. Three hours later, around 2:10am Saturday, another drone…
Friday, 01 September 2023 04:29
What to know after Day 554 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up' Ukraine told critics of the pace of its three-month-old counteroffensive to "shut up" on Thursday, the sharpest signal yet of Kyiv's frustration at leaks from Western officials who say its forces are advancing too slowly. Since launching a much vaunted counteroffensive using many billions of dollars of Western military equipment, Ukraine has recaptured more than a dozen villages but has yet to penetrate Russia's main defences. Stories in the New York Times, Washington Post and other news organisations last week quoted U.S. and other Western officials as suggesting the…
Thursday, 31 August 2023 04:55
What to know after Day 553 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainian military says six servicemen killed in helicopter incident Six Ukrainian servicemen were killed aboard two helicopters while they were "carrying out missions" in eastern Ukraine, the military said on Wednesday. There was no indication what happened involving two widely-used Mi-8 helicopters on Tuesday. A military statement on Telegram aid the men were "carrying out missions" in the sector of the Russian-held eastern city of Bakhmut when they died. The news site Ukrainska Pravda said the incident occurred near Kramatorsk - a large town west of Bakhmut in Donetsk region, theatre of much of the fighting in Russia's…