Contents tagged with War in Ukraine

  • 90 percent of Ukrainians believe Ukraine will win the war with Russia

    According to a survey conducted  by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center, more than 90% of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine will win the war with Russia. 77% strongly believe, 15% somewhat believe, and 4% of respondents do not believe or somewhat do not believe in victory.

    31% of those who believe in the victory of Ukraine, believe that it should be expected before the end of 2022, 34% believe that it will happen in 1-2 years. 7% of those surveyed by sociologists …

  • Russia accuses Ukrainian Special Services of assassinating the daughter of Putin’s ideologist

    The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that they solved the murder of the daughter of Putin’s ally Daria Dugina, who was killed in a car explosion.

    The FSB said that the murder of the daughter of the ideologist of the "Russian world" Alexander Dugin was committed by the Ukrainian special services.

    According to the FSB, the assassination was carried out by a Ukrainian national Natalia Vovk, who entered Russia on July 23 with her 12-year-old daughter in a Mini-Cooper with the …

  • Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters attacked by a drone

    Attacks in Crimea continue. A drone flew into the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, said the so-called "governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev.

    "I'm at the Navy Headquarters. 25 minutes ago, a drone flew into the roof. Unfortunately, it was not shot down, although small arms were used in the bay. It was flying low. There are no victims," he wrote on Telegram. The official said that all surrounding areas and entrances to the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet are blocked. …

  • Ukrainian Foreign Minster: Erdogan and Guterres did not push Zelensky to make concessions to Putin

    Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that during the meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv, the President of Turkey and the UN Secretary General did not push Ukraine to make concessions to Russia.

    Kuleba noted that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sincerely empathize and really want to help Ukraine find a solution.

    "No one persuaded us to make concessions in Russia’s favor. If some conspiracy spread again in social …

  • Ukrainian Defense Minister: Crimean bridge is a legitimate target

    Ukraine has promised not to use Western weapons to strike targets in the Russian territory, but this does not apply to the temporarily occupied Crimea, said Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov in an interview with Voice of America.

    "We have agreements with the United States that we will not use weapons provided to us by the United States and partners on the territory of the Russian Federation. But if today we are talking about the de-occupation of the temporarily occupied territories …

  • After explosions in Crimea Zelensky urges Ukrainians living in occupied territories not to approach Russian military facilities

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on civilians in the Russian-occupied territories not to approach military facilities and ammunition depots.

    "Every day and every night we see new reports of explosions in the territory temporarily occupied by the occupiers. I ask now all our people in Crimea, in other regions in the south of the country, in the occupied areas of the Donbas and Kharkiv region to be very careful. Please do not approach the military facilities of the Russian army and …

  • During his visit to Ukraine Erdogan wants to discuss steps for ending the war ‘through diplomatic means’

    During his visit to Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is going to discuss steps to end Russia's war against Ukraine "through diplomatic means", reported the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

    "During the meeting, the steps that can be taken to end the Ukraine-Russia war through diplomatic means, by increasing the activities of the mechanism established for the export of Ukrainian grain to the world markets, will be discussed," the Turkish President said.

    In a statement, Erdogan’s …

  • Ukrainian Forces strike Wagner PMC base in occupied Popasna

    Ukrainian Forces have struck the base of the Russian private military company the Wagner Group in Popasna, reported the Russian military reporter Yuri Kotenok, and the telegram channel “The Reverse Side of the Medal”, which is believed to be associated with the Wagner PMC. Kotenok writes that the strike was probably carried out from HIMARS systems.

    On August 8, Russian war correspondent Sergei Sreda published photos with mercenaries of the Wagner PMC in Popasna. One of the photos also showed a …

  • Poland to stop issuing visas to Russian citizens

    Poland announced it will be stopping issuing visas to Russian citizens. The country's authorities are also working on a procedure that will allow to refuse EU visas to Russians, said the Deputy Head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, Piotr Wawrzyk. According to him, the decision will be made in the coming weeks.

    Wawrzyk said that Poland is in favor of expanding EU sanctions, especially suspending the agreement on visa facilitation for citizens of the Russian Federation. However, Germany, France …

  • German Chancellor Scholz says he does not support EU ban on visas for Russians

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Olaf Scholz) was skeptical about calls to introduce a total ban on issuing visas to citizens of the Russian Federation because of the Russian armed invasion of Ukraine. "This is Putin's war, so I don't like such initiatives," he said at a big summer press conference in Berlin.

    According to Scholz, the European Union has already imposed broad sanctions against representatives of the Russian leadership, and "this will continue." At the same time, the Federal …