[ad_1] Ukraine’s top military commander has issued a gloomy assessment of the army’s positions on the eastern front, saying they have “worsened significantly in recent days.” Russian forces were pushing hard to exploit their growing advantage in personnel and ammunition to break Ukrainian lines, commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky said. said in a statement weekend. “Despite … Read more
[ad_1] President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine likely changed the fate of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the draft age from 27 to 25 this month, more than two years after Russia began its full-scale invasion. Ukrainian forces are struggling to contain the much larger Russian army and desperately need to … Read more
[ad_1] Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hourly artillery duels, airstrikes and pitched fighting in the east and south of the country have turned the more than 600-mile front line into a marked border. Some parts may remain uninhabitable for years, if not decades. Towns and cities are destroyed. The fields … Read more
[ad_1] Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hourly artillery duels, airstrikes and pitched fighting in the east and south of the country have turned the more than 600-mile front line into a marked border. Some parts may remain uninhabitable for years, if not decades. Towns and cities are destroyed. The fields … Read more
[ad_1] President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine signed into law three measures aimed at replenishing the ranks of his country’s exhausted and battered military, including lowering the age at which men can be eligible for conscription and eliminating some medical exemptions. While Zelensky did not say why he had decided to move forward with at least … Read more
[ad_1] The Ukrainian army only had one Bohdana artillery cannon in its arsenal when Russia invaded the country two years ago. However, that single weapon, built in Ukraine in 2018 and capable of firing NATO-caliber rounds, proved so effective in the early days of the war that it was trucked to battlefields across the country, … Read more
[ad_1] The Ukrainian soldier cursed and tore off his headphones. His video monitor had gone blurry at first, the landscape of shattered trees and shell craters barely visible, before fading completely. The Russians had jammed his drone’s signal as he flew out of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kreminna. “Some days everything goes well, other … Read more
[ad_1] President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Thursday named Valery Zaluzhny as his new ambassador to Britain, just a month after he removed him from his post as the country’s top general amid tensions between military and civilian leaders. “Gen. “Valery Zaluzhny told me that this is the direction he would like to take: diplomacy,” … Read more
[ad_1] Fighting had become increasingly fierce last month at the Zenith air defense base, a mile south of Avdiivka, where for years a company of Ukrainian soldiers had defended the southern approaches to the city. Russian troops had closed in on their flanks and were attacking them from all sides with tank, artillery and mortar … Read more
[ad_1] As the war continued in eastern Ukraine, much of its western border was blocked Tuesday by another fight, this time with Polish farmers. Farmers have been protesting for months against an influx of Ukrainian products that they say is saturating the Polish market and undermining their livelihoods. On Tuesday, they blocked checkpoints for commercial … Read more