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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s forces launch missile attack on Unesco world heritage site in Odesa. ... 22, was taken prisoner in the Kursk area of Russia, state news agency RIA reported, ...
Mr Biden, at a solo news conference ending the Nato summit, said “Putin’s got a problem” because Russia has not been successful in its two-and-a-half year war against Ukraine.
A majority of Russians still support Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, according to a poll conducted in Russia. Some 76 per cent of respondents said they backed the invasion, while 21 per cent ...
Up to 40 percent of all ‘combat engagements’ between Russia and Ukraine are around one eastern town on the frontline, says the British MoD
In a speech on 21 February 2022, following the escalation in the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Putin said that "modern Ukraine was wholly and fully created by Bolshevik, communist Russia". [20] Sarah Rainsford wrote in BBC News that Putin's speech was "rewriting Ukraine's history", and that his focus on the country was "obsessive". [21]
That day in the evening Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrence into alert. [116] Remnants of a destroyed Russian column on 27 February in Bucha. The Russian invasion was unexpectedly met by fierce Ukrainian resistance. [117] In Kyiv, Russia failed to take the city and was repulsed in the battles of Irpin, Hostomel, and Bucha.
One person was killed in a Russian attack in Kherson. [577] Ukraine established a national registry to document sexual violence by Russian forces in the country. [578] North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un pledged to “unconditionally support” Russia with its invasion of Ukraine during a visit by Putin to Pyongyang. [579]
Simon Sebag Montefiore, a historian and author on Russian history, wrote in Foreign Policy last year: "The failure to promote an effective general to fight the Ukraine war is one of Putin's most ...