Cities in eastern and southern Ukraine are increasingly being hit by Russian glide bombs, converted gravity bombs that can be guided to targets, often landing without detection, residents and officials say.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has presented MPs with a long-awaited “victory plan” that aims to strengthen his country’s position enough to end the war with Russia. Zelensky told parliament in Kyiv the plan could finish the war – which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 – next year. Key elements include […]
With the strikes in the Odesa region, Russia appears to be trying again to prevent Ukraine from exporting grain, harming its economy and pushing up world prices.
BBC Viktoriia Roshchyna was detained last year while reporting in Russian-occupied Ukraine Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023 in a part of Ukraine now occupied by Russian forces. It took nine months for Russian authorities to confirmed the journalist had been detained. They gave no reason. This week, her father got a terse letter from […]
A French air force Dassault Mirage 2000. Wikimedia Commons Ex-French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters will arrive in Ukraine in the first quarter of next year, French defense minister Sébastien Lecornu announced Tuesday. But first, the delta-wing supersonic fighters “will be equipped with new equipment,” Lecornu wroteincluding systems for air-ground combat and electronic warfare. Lecornu’s comments […]
