Contents tagged with War in Ukraine

  • Zelensky arrives in Kherson, Kremlin continues to call it Russian territory

    On Monday, November 14, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Kherson.

    In the central square of Kherson, Zelensky thanked the Ukrainian military for liberating the city after several months of Russian occupation.

    "We are moving forward. We are ready for peace, peace for our entire country," the Ukrainian leader told soldiers standing in front of the city administration building.

    The President also thanked NATO and other allies for their support in the war against Russia and said …

  • Russian media blames oligarch Abramovich and the likes for 'Russia's national catastrophe'

    The author of the article entitled “Who prevents Surovikin from fighting", published by the pro-Kremlin newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, writes about the role of the oligarch Roman Abramovich in Russia’s misfortunes.

    "It is obvious that Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] is not omnipotent. If all his decisions over the years were carried out as planned, we would already be living in a completely different Russia. But, sometimes, Putin says one thing, and a different outcome comes out of the …

  • Russia transferring ammunition and S-300 missiles from Belarus to Donbas

    Russia is probably transferring missiles for S-300/400 anti-aircraft missile systems from Belarus to the Donbas, reported the war monitoring group Belarusian Gayun.

    Over the past few days, eight Il-76 landed at Machulishchy airfield in Belarus.

    According to the monitoring group, the Russian planes remained at the airfield from three to five hours.

    According to Belarusian Gayun, the Russian cargo planes could be either delivering new missiles and/or ammunition, picking up missiles and/or …

  • Erdogan intends to call Zelensky and Putin to discuss possibility of negotiations

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the coming days to discuss possible talks with Russia, reports the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

    Erdogan told reporters that Turkey is seeking to find ways of dialogue for further peace. He believes that hearing the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin is not enough, so he wants to hear the position of Ukraine on negotiations with Russia with the mediation of Turkey.

    In addition, Erdogan plans to …

  • Russia closes passage to ships through the Kerch Strait into Azov Sea

    Russia has closed the passage of ships loaded outside of Russia through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov, reported TASS, citing the Main Directorate of Maritime Affairs under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey.

    "According to the official notification that we received from the maritime administration of the Russian Federation, the passage of ships loaded outside the territory of the Russian Federation to the north through the Kerch Strait, which provides passage to the …

  • Kyiv: Ukrainian Forces continue their advance in Kherson region

    The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to advance in the Kherson region, taking weapons and equipment left behind by the Russian troops and taking many of Russian soldiers prisoners, said on the air of the Ukrainian national TV Chief of the Joint Coordination Press Office of the Ukraine Security and Defense Forces South, Natalia Humeniuk.

    "We continue to advance and, among other things, to clean up the territories, to consolidate in the captured positions … We also try to find those who were " …

  • Kyiv: Ukrainian Forces are entering Kherson

    The Ukrainian Armed Forces are entering Kherson. Some units of the Ukrainian Army are already in the city, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

    "Kherson is returning to the control of Ukraine. Units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are entering the city. The ways of retreat of the Russian occupiers are under the fire control of the Ukrainian Army. Any attempts to counteract the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be stopped," the statement reads.

    The intelligence …

  • Ukrainian Forces advancing towards Kherson from the north and west, Russian troops retreating leaving behind weapons and equipment

    The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in the evening report that Ukrainian troops are steadily moving towards Kherson. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have reportedly advanced 7 kilometers in the direction of Petropavlivka-Novoraisk moving from the north of the Kherson region along the Dnieper and took control of six settlements. Another part of the Ukrainian military, moving in the Pervomaisk-Kherson direction, also took control of six settlements.

    The …

  • Wives of newly mobilized arrive at Ukrainian border demanding their husbands be retuned to Russia

    On the night of November 9, more than 20 relatives of the newly mobilized soldiers from the Voronezh, Kursk and Belgorod regions arrived at a military unit in the border town of Valuiki and demanded that their husbands and relatives, who came under fire in Makiivka, near Luhansk, be immediately moved to Russian territory, reports the news outlet Verstka.

    According to relatives, the mobilized are walking from the village of Krasnorichenske, Luhansk oblast, in the direction of Valuiki (about 150 …

  • Kremlin: Russia is ready for peace talks with Ukraine without preconditions

    Russia is ready to start peace talks with Ukraine without preconditions, said Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Rudenko. He noted that Russian diplomats have repeatedly spoken of their readiness for such negotiations, which "were interrupted through no fault of our own."

    "On our part, there are no preconditions, except for the main condition - that Ukraine shows goodwill," Rudenko said.

    He recalled that Kyiv adopted a law prohibiting peaceful negotiations with Moscow. The …