Before he held a frontline position in Ukraine for 110 days, Jaime, a Colombian volunteer, installed window frames for a living, he recounted to the brigade. Now he is a fighter with the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” with the callsign Tornado, according to ArmyInform. He is one of aContinue Reading
The US has extended its waiver for another 30 days, allowing vulnerable countries to buy Russian oil already at sea, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. It is a second such extension, and one he had told European allies last month he would not make, according to Politico. The waiver keepsContinue Reading
Ukrainian strikes on Moscow are likely to increase. It’s all because Ukraine has found a way through the multi-layered air defense around the Russian capital, military analyst Ivan Stupak said on 24 Channel. Stupak’s argument reframes the 17 May attack, one of the largest assaults on Moscow Oblast since theContinue Reading
Russian forces repeated their “underground breakthrough” tactic by using a major gas pipeline to try to infiltrate behind Ukrainian positions on the Orikhiv front in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. However, this time Ukrainian forces were waiting for them with drones, surrender leaflets, and a full encirclement, according to Ukraine’s 65th Separate MechanizedContinue Reading
The B4Ukraine conference was fourteen hours of near-relentless discussion on one question: how to make sanctions on Russia actually bite. Ella Skybenko was there throughout — sometimes on the main stage and at other times listening attentively to other speakers. As the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Senior Researcher atContinue Reading
Russia is interested in joint economic projects with the US if Washington stops linking trade relations to a peace agreement on Ukraine, the Kremlin said on 13 May, Reuters reports. Currently, Russia remains under broad US sanctions largely tied to the war against Ukraine. Those sanctions remain one of theContinue Reading
Ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations will be possible after the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Donbas, as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, says Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, according to BBC Russia. This is the only condition for peace, he claimed. On 30 September 2022, RussiaContinue Reading
Russian occupation forces are likely abandoning attempts to advance on Stepnohirsk in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, says Ihor Burdeinyi, commander of the 128th Separate Zakarpattia Mountain Assault Brigade, per UNIAN. This small settlement became one of the last major obstacles on the road to Zaporizhzhia, a city of over 500,000 people. Continue Reading
The British-German aerospace startup Nightfall has conducted the first test of a hypersonic missile that reached Mach 6 and traveled more than 300 kilometers, Hypersonica, the production company says. In January, London stated that such missiles could “boost Ukraine’s firepower to defend itself from Putin’s war machine.” The launch tookContinue Reading
Ukraine is developing a new system of military contracts. It could provide clearly defined service terms, individualized demobilization conditions, and a new model of financial compensation, Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing its own sources in the defense sector. The absence of a defined end date for military service has been oneContinue Reading
Ukraine is reportedly conducting an investigation against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former closest allies. On the evening of 11 May, detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and prosecutors from the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) conducted investigative actions regarding former Head of the Presidential Office Andrii Yermak. TheContinue Reading
Germany and Ukraine signed a letter of intent on launching the Brave Germany program in Kyiv. Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, Mykhailo Fedorov, and Germany’s Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, agreed on the document on 11 May, according to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. The initiative provides grant support for Ukrainian and GermanContinue Reading
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the configuration of a prisoner-of-war exchange between Ukraine and Russia is still being coordinated. His announcement followed Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, meeting with US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimedContinue Reading