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The war in Ukraine, now in its 21st month, has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands and destroyed swathes of the country. It has also triggered the deepest crisis in Moscow’s relations with ...
Putin and top military leaders visit southern military headquarters to assess his war in Ukraine. A recap of last night’s strike on Kyiv. 10:30, Lydia Patrick. Russia launched a missile attack ...
Ukraine preparing for ‘new wave’ of attacks on Avdiivka. 08:32, Alexander Butler. Ukraine is preparing for a new wave of attacks near the besieged town of Avdiivka, the head of the region’s ...
Political analyst Andreas Umland suggested that the offensive could bring a quicker end to the war. He notes that Ukraine's allies had severely restricted the kinds of weapons sent to Ukraine and their permitted range, fearful of crossing the Kremlin's "red lines" and sparking World War III. One of those red lines was "taking the war to Russia ...
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and that 370,000 soldiers have been injured, while estimating the number of Russian casualties at 198,000 soldiers killed and more than 550,000 soldiers injured.
The Prosecutor of Ukraine opened an investigation into "violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder". [ 275 ] Months after the battle, on 18 October 2024, the bodies of 501 soldiers, 382 of which were killed in the Avdiivka sector, were repatriated to Ukraine [ 276 ] in exchange for the bodies of 89 Russian soldiers.
Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers say.
In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Slobodan Milošević was indicted by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Charges of violating the laws or customs of war, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half later.