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Russia launched a new non-nuclear ballistic missile with medium range on Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Thursday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in a televised statement, marking another ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s military to expand to 1.5 million active troops, bringing the total military personnel to nearly 2.4 million, according to a decree dated ...
Dysfunction in the Russian military, with Mr Putin as its de facto commander-in-chief, is another. ... having appointed a new land forces commander. In his latest update, Ukraine’s military ...
Trump says he and Putin could do something 'significant' toward ending Russia's war in Ukraine Ukraine says it destroyed a Russian command post in Kursk Ukrainian drones attack Russian oil refinery
Putin had signaled the update to his country’s policy earlier this year as he sought to warn the West against loosening restrictions on Kyiv's use of long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russia.
Putin announced the start of a "special military operation" in the Donbas region, citing Article 51 of the UN Charter (on the right to self-defence), the decision of the Federation Council on the use of Russian troops in Ukraine and agreements with the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).
For instance, The Economist published an article entitled "Vladimir Putin fires a new missile to amplify his nuclear threats", [18] Similarly, the Institute for the Study of War argues that Putin rhetorically linked the 21 November Oreshnik strike to Russia’s nuclear capabilities to dissuade Western nations from continuing their support for ...
A Russian military expert speculated that a second wave might take place at the end of 2022. [87] However, on 11 October 2022, Yury Shvyktin, deputy head of the State Duma's defense committee, stated that mobilization would not be divided into phases, and that statements about first and second phases were "groundless". [88]