Contents tagged with War in Ukraine
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Russian General Igor Trifonov killed in Ukraine
Russian General Igor Trifonov has been killed in Ukraine. He previously led the police force in Yekaterinburg, reported the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
In 2022, he lost his position and rank, as he was sentenced to 9 years in prison for bribery.
To obtain a pardon, he signed a contract with the Russian occupation army and went to war in Ukraine.
"Former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Yekaterinburg, Igor Trifonov, who was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison in 2022 for …
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Russian city Zheleznogorsk left without power and heating after substation damaged in Ukrainian attack
The city of Zheleznogorsk in the Kursk region, home to around 100,000 people, has been completely cut off from electricity and heating due to repairs on a substation damaged by Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to the region's governor, Roman Starovoit. "To ensure the safe restoration of the damages, we were forced to disconnect the substation in Zheleznogorsk. The consequences of the accident will be eliminated within two hours," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
However, the Telegram channel …
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Germany's Green Party: Ukraine's Leopard tanks in need of urgent repair
Out of the 18 Leopard 2A6 tanks supplied by Germany to Ukraine, only a small portion remains combat-ready, said Sebastian Schäfer, the Green Party budget expert, calling for immediate measures to repair them. "Unfortunately, it must be noted that only a very small portion of the tanks supplied to Ukraine remains suitable for combat. The repair process takes a long time because there is a shortage of components at the repair plant in Lithuania," the dpa agency quoted Schäfer's letter sent to …
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Turkey refuses to allow mine-sweeping vessels gifted to Ukraine by UK to enter the Black Sea
Turkey will not allow the mine-sweeping vessels, which the UK has handed over to Ukraine, to pass through its straits, reported the Turkish Center for Combatting Disinformation.
"The claims by some media outlets that the mine-sweeping vessels, gifted to Ukraine by the UK, were permitted to pass through the Turkish straits into the Black Sea do not correspond to reality," the statement reads.
It is noted that Turkey immediately classified Russia's "special military operation" against Ukraine …
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Russian Kinzhal missile strays, strikes own territory during attack on Ukraine
A Russian missile fell in the village of Petrovskaya, Voronezh region, Russia, around 9 am during a missile attack on Ukraine. One of the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles launched towards Kyiv unexpectedly changed its trajectory.
Independent journalists from the Astra project published several videos showing the impact crater and seriously damaged houses. A local resident reported that an entire street was destroyed as a result of the explosion.
The Governor of the region, Alexander Gusev, …
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Russian media: 74 dead and 27 injured in Ukrainian attack on Russian landing ship Novocherkassk in Feodosia port
74 people were killed and 27 were injured as a result of an attack on the Russian landing ship Novocherkassk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the port of Feodosia, reports the web site the News of Sevastopol, citing the Information Support Department of the Black Sea Fleet.
According to the publication, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov asked the head of the administration of Novocherkassk, Yuri Lysenko, to declare a two-day mourning in the city. The Russian …
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Russia launches massive air attack on Ukraine
On the night of December 29th, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine. Two people were killed and at least 17 injured in Kiev, according to the head of the city's military administration, Serhiy Popko. The city was targeted with "several dozen" missiles of different types, as clarified by the Kyiv Military Administration.
"We have never seen so many targets simultaneously on our monitors," said spokesman for the Air Force, Yuri Ignat. He stated that Russia used all types of missiles today …
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Ukraine sinks Russian landing ship Novocherkassk in Black Sea
Commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Mykola Oleshchuk, announced on the night of Tuesday, December 26th, that a large landing ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Novocherkassk, had been sunk. Oleshchuk wrote on Telegram that this ship "followed the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser Moskva,'" and thanked the "pilots of the Air Force and all those involved" for their "exquisite work." A video from the ASTRA Telegram channel was attached to the post, …
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Russian Defense Minister claims Marinka captured, Ukraine denies it amidst continued fighting
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu reported to Putin that Russian troops had captured the town of Marinka. However, the spokesperson for the Joint Press Centre of the Ukrainian Defence Forces in the South, Oleksandr Shtupun, denied it during a national news broadcast.
Shtupun claims that to speak of the complete capture of Marinka would be "incorrect" as the town has been completely destroyed. However, the fighting in Marinka continues, as Ukrainian military personnel are still present …
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Kyiv: Russia seeks answers to downing of three Su-34 aircraft in Kherson region
Russia is now trying to gather intelligence on what caused the downing of three of their Su-34 aircraft, said the spokesperson of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignat, on the national news broadcast.
"The enemy is trying to gather as much information as possible. Collecting information in the southern regions where the Russian fighters were shot down. It is clear that they are looking for the means by which those planes were sent to their 'eternal flight'," he noted.
According to Ignat, as a …