Seoul has previously claimed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent more than 10,000 soldiers as “cannon fodder” to help Moscow fight Kyiv, in return for Russian technical assistance for Pyongyang’s heavily sanctioned weapons and satellite programs. Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had captured two North Korean soldiers, releasing a […]
The former comedian won respect abroad and drew comparisons with Winston Churchill when he stayed in Kyiv in February 2022 to steer his country against the Russian invasion. A survey released on Tuesday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) showed that Ukrainians’ trust in their leader had fallen to 52 percent as of […]
Moscow has been pressing hard in eastern Ukraine, and the claimed capture of the industrial town is a major boost for its forces just two weeks before US President-elect Donald Trump comes to power, having vowed to strike a peace deal. Both sides are looking to secure a better position on the battlefield before his […]
The shutdown of Russia’s oldest gas route to Europe ends a decade of fraught relations sparked by Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014. Ukraine stopped buying Russian gas the following year. “We stopped the transit of Russian gas. This is a historic event. Russia is losing its markets, it will suffer financial losses. Europe has […]
Vasily Anokhin, the governor of the Smolensk region — which borders Ukraine — said that Russian air defense systems had “suppressed an attack by Ukrainian” drones in Yartsevo district. “The wreckage of one of the unmanned aerial vehicles fell on the territory of an oil depot. As a result, a fuel spill occurred and a […]
Russia also said its military offensive on Ukraine remained its “absolute priority” amid questions over whether Moscow’s almost three-year campaign there meant it could not support long-term ally Bashar al-Assad in the face of the rebel offensive. “We would like to see the situation in the country stabilized somehow as soon as possible,” Kremlin spokesman […]
The decision comes as President Joe Biden works to boost Ukraine’s war effort in the final two months of his administration before Ukraine aid critic Donald Trump takes power in January. On Sunday, Biden gave Ukraine the green light to fire US-supplied long-range missiles into Russian territory for the first time. The US official added […]
With two months left in office, lame-duck US President Biden made a major policy change that yields to a long-standing request from Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion, now in its third year. The new policy and Biden’s pledge to speed up military aid to Ukraine come as the United States prepares for Trump […]
“These guys, Biden’s administration, is trying to escalate the situation to the maximum while they still have power and are still in office,” Butina told Reuters. “I have a great hope that (Donald) Trump will overcome this decision if this has been made because they are seriously risking the start of World War Three which […]
The jamming allegations come about a week after the North test-fired what it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel ICBM missile, its first such launch since being accused of sending soldiers to help Russia fight Ukraine. The South fired its ballistic missile into the sea on Friday in a show of force aimed […]
