Ukraine

A Bradley Fire Support Team vehicle in U.S. Army service. Wikimedia Commons In the 14 months since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has become adept at firing laser- and GPS-guided artillery shells. These precision munitions make it possible for Ukrainian gunners to destroy a Russian bunker,…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference Thursday, March 30, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday called for the Biden administration to brief senators on the leak of a set of highly classified documents about…

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2010.  (Photo by ALEXEY DRUZHININ/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images) The leaked Pentagon documents that have become an intelligence nightmare for the U.S. government after circulating in, among other places, a Minecraft forum…

Synopsis India holds the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 this year and hosts a leaders summit in September. New Delhi has not been as critical of Moscow as others for its invasion of Ukraine and has even ramped up its buying of Russian oil - the lifeblood of…

Russia lost elections to three United Nations bodies this week, a sign that opposition to its invasion of Ukraine over a year ago remains strong. The votes in the 54-member UN Economic and Social Council follow approval of six non-binding resolutions against Russia by the 193-member UN General Assembly. The…

A Belarusian volunteer soldier from the Kastus Kalinouski regiment, a regiment made up of Belarusian opposition volunteers formed to defend Ukraine, fires a 120mm mortar round at a front line position near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, on April 9, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. —AFP KYIV, UKRAINE: A…

The Vatican's Easter procession attempted to "equate the victim and the aggressor," Ukraine's foreign ministry said after representatives of both Ukraine and Russia were included in the same section of the key religious event. A symbolic part of the annual Good Friday "Way of the Cross", or "Via Crucis" procession,…

(Reuters) – Fighters of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group have captured two more areas of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday. Wagner has spearheaded Russia’s attempt to take Bakhmut since last summer in what has been the longest and deadliest battle of the war for both…

Natalia Rakk speaks with her 14-year-old daughters Dasha and Aliona, who went to a Russian-organised summer camp from non-government controlled territories and were then taken to Russia, after returning via the Ukraine-Belarus border in Volyn region, Ukraine April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoReuters By Anna Dabrowska and Anna Voitenko UKRAINE/BELARUS BORDER…

Soviet T-55 tanks in Poland during the 1981 martial-law crisis. Wikimedia Commons Having lost at least 2,000 tanks in its 14-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to source the high-tech components its needs to build new tanks, Russia has been pulling out of long-term storage hundreds of 60-year-old T-62s…