Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Monday to drive Ukrainian troops from his country’s territory as more civilians were urged to flee the surprise cross-border assault that has left the Kremlin scrambling and seen Kyiv seize back the initiative in the war. Putin’s first major public intervention on the crisis came as battles raged inside Russia…
Officials in Moscow have vowed to impose a “tough response” as a large Ukrainian offensive inside Russian territory entered a sixth day. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of “intimidating the peaceful population of Russia” with the offensive, which began on Tuesday. Kyiv’s forces have now advanced up to 30km inside Russia, in what…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that Ukrainian soldiers are fighting in Russia. In an address to the nation, Zelenskyy referenced operations in the “aggressor’s territory.” Russia declared a state of emergency in the Kursk region following Ukrainian attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed for the first time that Ukrainian troops have taken the…
Russia has imposed a “counter-terrorism operation” regime in three regions to try to halt a surprise cross-border incursion by Ukrainian troops. The authorities in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on the border with Ukraine now can restrict the movement of people and vehicles and use phone tapping among other measures. This comes as the…
Sajad Ahmad Kumar, right, shows a photo of his brother, Azad Yousuf Kumar, who left his village in Indian-administered Kashmir in December after being lured by a false job to fight the war in Ukraine. Credit – Faisal Bashir—SOPA Images / Getty Images Ravi Moun was excited to travel to Russia from his small village…
Ukrainian troops remained in Russia’s western Kursk region on Friday night, as its surprise cross-border offensive into Russia came to the end of a fourth day. The Russian defence ministry said it was “continuing to repel” Ukraine’s military, which it claimed had lost more than 280 personnel in the past 24 hours – a figure…
BERLIN (AP) — All Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin had with him when he was released from his penal colony in a swap was his toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste, his expired passport and the prison garb he was wearing. But he has hit the ground running. Within days of arriving in Germany, Yashin not…
President Volodymyr Zelensky has made his first comments on the advance of Ukrainian troops into the Russian border region of Kursk. “Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done,” Zelensky said in his evening video message. He did not mention the fighting by Ukrainian soldiers on Russian territory…
Three days into Ukraine’s cross-border attack on Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Moscow must “feel” the consequences for its invasion of Ukraine. “Russia brought the war to our land and should feel what it has done”, Mr Zelensky said in his Thursday evening address, without directly referencing the Ukrainian offensive. “Ukrainians…
