PARIS — The Netherlands won’t be able to spend €750 million (US$790 million) of military aid planned for Ukraine this year because of the tight global market for defense equipment, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said. Military aid for Ukraine has shifted from equipment supplied from stockpiles at the start of the country’s fight against invading Russian forces, to…
Fresh Ukrainian troops are being redeployed to the heavily threatened front-line regions of Pokrovsk and Kurakhove, while Ukraine’s president said he could agree to a ceasefire if NATO agrees to protect areas under Ukrainian control. The new deployments are in response to the Russian advance in eastern Ukraine, Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi announced on…
Amid the monstrous heaps of twisted metal, pools of congealed oil and walls pockmarked by shrapnel, one incongruous detail catches my eye. Patches of snow. Inside a thermal power station. With another Ukrainian winter arriving, the vast turbine hall is full of activity. Engineers, dwarfed by the enormous scale of the place, repairing what they…
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a prominent lawyer and sentenced him to seven years in prison for speaking out against the war in Ukraine on social media, a Russian human rights group reported. The verdict in the case of Dmitry Talantov, who once chaired a regional association of lawyers…
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Gorinov appeared in court on Wednesday for a second trial for opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine, an independent news site reported. The new trial against Gorinov, a 63-year-old former member of a Moscow municipal council who is suffering from a chronic lung condition, is the latest in…
Misinformation about Western countries’ involvement in the war in Ukraine has continued to spread online almost three years after Putin’s full-scale invasion. In a recent case, a photo ricocheted across social media posts that falsely claimed it shows coffins of British soldiers killed in the conflict. However, the picture predates the war by more than…
Russia fired what it said was a new type of ballistic missile at Ukraine this week. Putin called the missile the “Oreshnik” and said it had a “non-nuclear hypersonic warhead.” Ukraine described the attack as a “severe escalation.” Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his military had fired a new type of missile at…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appealed to Chinese President Xi Jinping for support in curbing an escalation in the war in Ukraine, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. A government spokesman said Scholz had warned Xi of the escalation that the deployment of North Korean…
Ukraine has carried out a string of attacks on Russian ammunition depots over the past week. Newly released satellite images taken before and after the attacks reveal extensive damage at three sites. The photos show scorched earth, destroyed buildings, and huge blast craters. Newly published satellite imagery shows extensive damage at three large ammunition depots…
Romania is urging NATO to react to Russian missile and drone incursions into its airspace. The Romanian Defense Minister called for a “robust, coordinated response” from the alliance. The country also announced it would increase its acquisition of ammunition in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Romania is taking strategic steps to bolster its defenses…
