Contents tagged with War in Ukraine

  • General Lapin, who was accused by Kadyrov of surrendering Lyman, appointed Chief of the General Staff of Russian Ground Forces

    Colonel-General Alexander Lapin was appointed the new chief of the General Staff of the Russian Ground Forces, reported Russian media, citing sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the news agency RBC, Lapin's appointment took place at the end of 2022. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not officially confirm this information. Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov also refused to comment on it. "There are open decrees, there are classified decrees. There are no such decrees …

  • German Foreign Minister visits Kharkiv, promises more military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine

    German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made a surprise visit to Kharkiv, a city that is regularly shelled because of its proximity to the Russian border. The minister's visit was not announced. Baerbock was the first high-ranking Western official to travel to eastern Ukraine since the beginning of the war.

    After visiting the ruins of destroyed Russian military buildings, she said Kharkiv had become "a symbol of the absolute madness of the Russian aggression and the endless suffering that …

  • Zelensky: battle for Soledar will lead to liberation of entire Donbas by Ukraine

    The Russian forces are now focusing their main efforts on offensive actions near the town of Soledar in the Donetsk region, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening address.

    Zelensky said that today he held a new meeting of the General Staff, during which special attention was paid to the situation in the hottest areas of the front - in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

    "Bakhmut and Soledar, Kreminna and Svatove, we discussed prospects in the Donbas in the coming weeks. The …

  • Ukrainian troops get reinforcements near Bakhmut and Soledar

    The Ukrainian troops got reinforcements in the Bakhmut and Soldear direction, said the commander of the Ukrainian Land Forces, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who visited the Ukrainian military in Bakhmut and Soledar in the Donetsk region.

    "The enemy made another desperate attempt to storm the city of Soledar from different directions and threw into battle the most professional detachments of Wagner mercenaries. At the same time, thanks to the courage of our defenders, skillful and …

  • Kyiv denies Russia’s claims that Ukrainian Forces are withdrawing from Soledar

    Russian media reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were ordered to withdraw from the city of Soledar, Donetsk region.

    Ukrainian officials denied the reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost control over Soledar or plan to withdraw from it.

    The representative of the Eastern Group of Forces, Serhiy Cherevatyi, the deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence Yuri Mysyagin, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo …

  • US and Italy discuss delivery of SAMP-T air defense systems to Ukraine

    Italy can deliver anti-aircraft missile systems SAMP-T to Ukraine, reports La Repubblica. The United States is asking Italy to accelerate the next package of military assistance for Ukraine, which may include the SAMP-T air defense systems.

    La Repubblica noted that the United States National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, and the diplomatic adviser to the Prime Minister of Italy, Francesco Talo, held a telephone conversation on January 5.

    The two officials discussed military assistance for …

  • Two trains with Russian military equipment arrive in Belarus

    At least 50 units of military equipment were delivered to Belarus from Russia, reports the monitoring group Belaruski Hajun.

    "According to our data, about 43 KAMAZ and Urals trucks, BAZ-6306, 5 fuel trucks, 2 ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns, field kitchens and water tanks were delivered by train. It should also be noted that on one of the cars, there are numbers specific to the 44th region of the Russian Federation, which is the Western Military District," it was reported.

    The Belarusian Defense …

  • Russia continues to amass troops in Belarus

    Russian troops continue to arrive in Belarus, reports the Belarusian news agency Belta, citing the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.

    The news agency writes that the process of "building up the regional grouping of troops" is taking place in stages. Now the personnel, weapons, military, and special equipment of the Russian Armed Forces are being transferred to the country. Another shipment of new BTR-82A, BTR-80K, armored medical, repair and evacuation vehicles has just arrived in …

  • First group of Wagner mercenaries complete their contract in Ukraine

    The Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that the first group of prisoners who were recruited into the private military company Wagner Group has completed their contract. They were cleared of all convictions. The owner of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin hismself came to congratulate them.

    "They have completed their contract with honor, with dignity," the founder of the PMC told a group of former prisoners who were going to return to their homeland "with a clear conscience".

    During his …

  • Erdogan calls on Putin to unilaterally stop hostilities in Ukraine

    Today, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin, reports the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

    Touching upon the topic of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Turkish leader proposed to Putin to unilaterally stop hostilities.

    "Calls for peace and dialogue should be supported by a unilateral cessation of hostilities and a fair settlement of differences," Erdogan said, recalling the positive results of initiatives to promote dialogue, …