Russian troops advancing in ‘fierce fighting’ in Ukraine
Ukrainian forces have made gradual progress in their counteroffensive launched last month but have so far failed to produce a major breakthrough and have urged Western allies to escalate pledges of military support. The latest developments on the battlefield came after Ukrainian officials said Russia launched its first overnight drone attack on the capital Kyiv
Wagner and Putin game
The history of Russia, including modern episodes since the fall of the USSR, clearly indicates that the Russian military has no qualms about shooting at civilians if necessary. It was, therefore, odd that the Wagner militants took over Southern Military Command Headquarters without a struggle. Meanwhile, Russia was still able to launch missile attacks on
Poland to strengthens its border with Belarus
The Polish Border Guard on Sunday also said that 187 people tried to cross into Poland from Belarus illegally on Saturday. Poland accuses Belarus of artificially creating a migrant crisis on the border by flying in people from the Middle East and Africa and attempting to push them across the frontier. Minsk has denied the
Part of Russian Embassy’s personnel leave Romania
Russian aircraft are not allowed in EU airspace as a sanction for the war in Ukraine. However, the Bucharest authorities made a derogation for the aircraft that could take over Embassy employees and their families, declared undesirable. The Russian Embassy in Bucharest sent home 40 of its employees and their family members after Romania urged
The Hague probe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The ICC had previously opened an investigation into the issue of alleged child deportations by Moscow but has no mandate to probe the broader crime of aggression. The court has issued an international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin over the allegations. An international center to investigate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is set to open
Twitter temporarily restricts tweets to users
Twitter has applied a temporary limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day which has been limited to 1,000 tweets a day. Mr Musk said the temporary limits were to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”. data scraping is the pulling of information from the internet. Large language
Funding of empty detention centre in Australia
Australia’s controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty, after the last remaining refugee was evacuated into the night last week. Despite the facility sitting vacant, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government will spend vast sums of money including A$486m (£255m; $320m) this year to keep Nauru open as a deterrent. It pauses over a decade of
The fighting disease in Khartoum
A Khartoum resident said he was shaken from sleep by “violent fighting in which various weapons were used”. Another said he was awakened by warplanes. Fierce fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition threatened the rising number of displaced. Battles since mid-April between forces
General Sergei Surovikin “arrested” after armed rebellion by the Wagner group
General Sergei Surovikin, a deputy commander of the Russian army, is believed to have been detained after Wagner mercenaries upheld an armed rebellion. The potential arrest has shown some divisions inside Putin’s tightly controlled army, as well as raised eyebrows considering the different treatment that Wagner soldiers had after the revolt. Starting with Yevgeny V.
French tanks are inadequate for counteroffensive in Ukraine
In January, French President Emmanuel Macron promised the delivery of these highly mobile reconnaissance armoured vehicles on wheels, equipped with a formidable 105mm cannon. Four months later, they were already in service on the front line, according to the Ukrainian government. a Ukrainian officer believes that the AMX-10 RC tanks delivered to Ukraine by France