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Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Svetlograd, Stavropol Krai, some 600 kilometers from the Russia-Ukraine border. Russian officials claimed to have shot down 32 drones over Crimea and Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Oryol, and Belgorod Oblasts. [519] [520] The US announced a $425 million military aid package to Ukraine. [521]
Russia and Ukraine conducted an exchange of war dead, with 99 Ukrainians being exchanged for 23 Russians. [98] The HUR said that Russia had transferred 2,000 personnel from its Pacific Fleet and 400 personnel from the Russian Air Force's 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, in addition to halting the deployment of soldiers to Syria on rotation ...
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...
In 2024, Medvedev called Ukraine part of Russia [391] and said the Russian Army will seize what he called the "Russian cities" of Kyiv and Odesa. [392] Medvedev has also said that Ukraine should not exist in any form and that Russia will continue to wage war against any independent Ukrainian state. [ 393 ]
In February 2024, Russian propaganda outlets spread information about an alleged Russian missile strike on a concentration of Ukrainian military and heavy losses for the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Selydove. Commander Oleksandr Tarnavskyi refuted their claims, stating it was a Russian information and psychological operation. Tarnavskyi claimed ...
Ethnically Russian pro-Ukrainian militias, the Russian Volunteer Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion performed cross-border raids into Kursk and Belgorod in 2023 and again later in 2024. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov repeatedly threatened to attack Kharkiv Oblast and establish a ...
By early 2014, when the conflict was about to start, not only did German exports to Russia constitute the third of the whole EU's, but more than 6,200 German firms operated in Russia itself. [45] In 2017, for the first time since the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions in 2014, bilateral trade increased - by 22.8%, amounting to about $50 ...