Category: 6. Opinion

Russia continues to target NATO and the West with a wide range of hybrid tactics, NATO Senior Representative in Ukraine, Patrick Turner, told in an interview with Ukrinform. Turner highlighted that Russia is using espionage to interfere in Western politics, but he emphasized that these actions… Continue Reading

The United States expressed “concern” over the potential involvement of North Korean military personnel in Russia’s forces fighting against Ukraine, Reuters reported on 15 October. This follows reports in Western media that North Korea assists Russia in launching ballistic missiles… Continue Reading

Starting from the beginning of 2024 to 1 October, Ukraine’s Armed Forces destroyed 10,373 artillery systems of the Russian army worth nearly least $8 billion, the Ministry of Defense has reported. The agency noted that one artillery division consists of 18 artillery units and an artillery… Continue Reading

On 15 October, Spanish police confiscated 13 tons of prohibited chemicals, including potential precursors for chemical weapons, that were heading to Russia despite the sanctions imposed on Moscow for its war against Ukraine, according to Reuters. The European Union, which has imposed extensive… Continue Reading

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha urged European countries to take action against Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers transporting Russian oil. Sybiha said in X that Russia poses an existential threat to Europe while continuing to “earn billions on energy exports to Europe and through… Continue Reading

Ukrainian Armed Forces have captured two Crimean collaborators in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, according to a report by the Prosecutor’s Office of Sumy Oblast on 15 October, Militarnyi says. Russia began recruiting locals in occupied Crimea well before its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In… Continue Reading

Eighteen North Korean soldiers have deserted their positions near the Russian-Ukrainian border in Bryansk and Kursk oblasts, according to a source in Ukrainian military intelligence who spoke to Liga on 15 October. The incident reportedly occurred approximately 7 kilometers from the border,… Continue Reading

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers and Mauritius’s government of the Republic approved an agreement on mutual visa requirement cancellation, Taras Melnychuk, the Cabinet’s representative in the Verkhovna Rada, said. According to Melnychuk, the agreement stipulates the introduction of a… Continue Reading

Ukraine has been successfully using modified FPV (First-Person View) drones to intercept Russian reconnaissance aircraft, potentially reshaping the dynamics of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, Forbes reports. Drone warfare innovations have become a defining feature of the ongoing… Continue Reading

The number of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces has increased over the past year, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin told the Belgian media outlet La Libre. These crimes are not isolated incidents but rather a deliberate policy of the aggressor state, Kostin… Continue Reading