The Russian president claims that the West installed Volodymyr Zelensky as head of Ukraine to conceal the glorification of Nazism. This is not the first time that the Russian president has tried to associate Mr. Zelensky with the massacre of Jews by the Nazis.
Washington believes that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un intends to travel to Russia to discuss with President Vladimir Putin arms sales from Pyongyang to Moscow for its war in Ukraine.
Kim Jong-un is expected to meet Vladimir Putin soon, according to the New York Times. Moscow neither confirms nor denies the holding of this summit.
In 2022, the vast majority of the world’s cluster munitions casualties were in Ukraine, bringing the number of people killed and injured by these weapons worldwide to a record high since at least 2010, according to a published report. Tuesday by theCluster Munition Observatorya coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
New attacks targeting Ukraine occurred near the border with Romania on Tuesday, said Klaus Iohannis, the president of this NATO member country, the day after the fall of Russian drones on the Romanian bank of the Danube.
Russian defenses shot down three aerial drones in the western regions of Moscow, Kaluga and Tver, authorities said on Tuesday morning.
The Ukrainian president visited the front line near Bakhmout in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, the Ukrainian presidency announced. Volodymyr Zelensky “visited brigades carrying out offensive actions in the Bakhmout area”his cabinet said in a statement.
Oleksii Reznikov has been officially removed from his post as defense minister following a vote by the Ukrainian parliament, the Rada, the Ukrainian defense ministry has announced.
The international swimming federation, like other sports federations, has decided to reintegrate Russian and Belarusian swimmers into its competitions, under a neutral banner and on an individual basis, World Aquatics said in a press release. They had been banned from swimming competitions since the start of the invasion of Ukraine eighteen months ago.
Poland, a neighboring country and unconditional supporter of Ukraine, will increase the share of its gross domestic product devoted to defence, bringing it to more than 4% of its GDP.
A video released on social media tonight shows a Challenger 2 tank, supplied by the British to the Ukrainians, destroyed. The first Challenger 2 arrived in the spring and equip the 82e airborne assault brigade engaged in the oblast of Zaporijia, near Robotyne, where Ukraine announced this weekend to have crossed the first Russian defensive line.
Saint Sophia’s Cathedral and monastic buildings in kyiv are expected to join the list of World Heritage in Danger in mid-September, as is the historic center of Lviv.