Three weeks ago, Ukraine’s military launched a stunning operation to take the war in Ukraine back onto the territory of the country that launched it. Three weeks later, the Ukrainians still occupy hundreds of miles of territory in Russia’s…
Category: 1. Ukraine
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Another Poland-Ukraine Border Checkpoint Closed Due to Repairs
Due to ongoing repair work, travel between Poland and Ukraine will encounter delays at major border checkpoints until mid-November.
In August 2024, Poland closed the Dorohusk checkpoint, located near Ukrainian Yahotyn, for essential repairs. This…
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If Ukraine’s Not a Proper Country, Nor Is Russia
Pro-Kremlin analysts have devised a new argument in their campaign to prove that Ukraine is not a real country.
The argument is central to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, a national entity whose roots date back to at…
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Pull back from the border or risk ‘tragic mistakes’ – POLITICO
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said earlier this month that he had deployed nearly one-third of his country’s armed forces to the border with Ukraine, telling state-run TV the move came in response to Kyiv amassing troops near its…
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Maps and satellite imagery show Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
Ukrainian troops staged a surprise cross-border attack into Russia early last week, and now Kyiv claims to control more than 1,100 square kilometres of its neighbour’s territory.
The incursion has reframed the war and caused chaos in western…
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Mapping Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region | Interactive News
During the past week, Ukraine has launched an offensive in Kursk in the most significant cross-border attack since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
The Kursk region, located in western Russia and bordering…
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Ukraine’s invasion of Russia exposes the folly of the West’s escalation fears
Units of the Ukrainian army crossed the border into Russia for the first time on August 6, marking the launch of a surprise…
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Ukrainian special operations abroad are part of its broader war effort against Russia
Mali recently severed relations with Ukraine as Ukrainian-backed Tuareg rebels killed at least 84 Russian soldiers in a well-executed ambush.
It’s unclear whether Ukrainian Special Operations Forces were directly involved in the assault,…
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What Ukraine’s assault on Russia could mean for EU gas supplies | Energy
A Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region – the largest since the war began with about 1,000 soldiers and more than two dozen tanks and other armoured vehicles storming over the border this week – poses a threat to a major gas supply…
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More Ukrainians Appear Open to a Peace Deal
Olha Predchenko held hands with her 85-year-old mother as they looked at the makeshift memorial on the grass in central Kyiv, each blue and yellow flag marked with the name of a soldier who had died fighting in the war with Russia.
They come here…
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