A Russian military airbase was left ablaze after Ukraine launched a massive drone barrage over Russia in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The Marinovka airfield in Volgograd was attacked at around 3.30am on Thursday as Kyiv targeted a storage site for fuel and Putin’s deadly glide bombs.
Up to 28 drones were launched across Russia by Ukraine in the attack, according to the Russian defence ministry, with Moscow claiming the airfield fire was caused by falling debris.
“Most of the drones were destroyed. As a result of the UAV crash, a fire broke out on the territory of a defense ministry facility,” Andrei Bocharov, the region’s governor, said.
It comes as Russian troops suffered “tangible” losses in Kursk as Ukraine carried on pushing forward into the region, according to Kyiv’s army.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelesnky visited Ukraine’s Sumy region where his troops launched a shock incursion into Russia’s Kursk region on 6 August.
Zelensky said he had met his top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, during the visit, nearly two weeks after the cross-border offensive.
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Zelensky visits Sumy near Russian border
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Russian military airbase left ablaze
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Russian priests bless fire trucks tackling massive blaze caused by Kyiv
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Footage shows Ukrainian destruction of Russian pontoon crossings in Kursk
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Ukraine says it hits pontoon bridges in Russia with US-made weapons
Russia opens criminal case against British journalist for reporting on Ukraine’s attack across border
15:35 , Alexander Butler
Russia opens criminal case against UK reporter for reporting on Ukraine Kursk attack
Russian guided bombs kill two in Ukraine’s Sumy region
15:30 , Alexander Butler
A Russian guided bomb attack in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region bordering Russia’s region of Kursk killed two people, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Moscow troops dropped two guided bombs on civilian infrastructure, according to the regional prosecutors’ statement on Telegram. One person was injured in the attack, it added.
Putin accuses Ukraine of trying to strike Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant
15:00 , Alexander Butler
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of trying to strike Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant in an overnight attack and said Moscow had informed the UN nuclear safety watchdog about the situation.
Putin, who did not provide further details about the incident or provide documentary evidence to back up his assertion, made the comments at a meeting of senior officials.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine whose lightning incursion into Kursk, the biggest into Russia by a foreign power since World War Two, saw thousands of Ukrainian troops punch through Russia’s western border on 6 August, apparently catching Moscow by surprise.
Ukraine ratifies the statute for joining the International Criminal Court
14:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, taking a step toward membership and opening the possibility of more prosecutions of Russian officials for war crimes.
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted Wednesday to ratify the ICC statute.
Membership of the ICC is a requirement for joining the European Union, which Ukraine hopes to do. It was formally accepted as a candidate in June 2022, four months after Russia began its full-scale invasion.
Ukraine ratifies the statute for joining the International Criminal Court
Watch: Russian military airbase left ablaze after drone attack
13:32 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine says it sees no Belarusian troop movements near border
13:07 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine’s border guard service said on Thursday that Kyiv had seen no signs of Belarusian troop or military hardware movements near their shared border since Minsk announced it was sending additional forces to the area.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday the country had deployed nearly a third of its armed forces along the border, claiming that Kyiv had stationed more than 120,000 troops there.
“We do not see any movement directly near our border – neither equipment nor personnel,” Andriy Demchenko, Ukraine’s border guard service spokesman, told national television.
He added that the situation near the Belarus border “generally has not changed”.
Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do?
13:00 , Alexander Butler
Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do?
Putin makes surprise trip to Chechnya for first time in 13 years
12:30 , Alexander Butler
Putin makes surprise trip to Chechnya – three weeks into Ukraine’s Kursk incursion
India’s Modi visits Ukraine this week, after a recent trip to Moscow. Here’s what it could mean
11:39 , Alexander Butler
India’s Modi visits Ukraine this week, after a recent trip to Moscow. Here’s what it could mean
Russia investigates British journalist
11:00 , Alexander Butler
Russia has opened a criminal case against a British journalist for allegedly illegally crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border into Kursk.
The FSB named the journalist as Nick Paton Walsh, a British citizen who works as CNN’s Chief International Security Correspondent.
In the CNN broadcast, journalists travelled with a Ukrainian military convoy from Ukraine to Sudzha, where they encountered a nearly deserted town with a few dozen elderly residents remaining.
The FSB said in a statement that Moscow would soon issue an international arrest warrant related to the three journalists’ cases.
The maximum punishment for anyone found guilty of illegally crossing the border is five years in jail, it said.
The Ukraine border village facing up to Russia’s wrath over Kursk attack
10:37 , Alexander Butler
The Ukraine border village facing up to Russia’s wrath over Kursk attack
Zelensky visits Sumy near Russian border
10:21 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday he and his army chief had visited the border region of Sumy near the border with Russia, two weeks after Kyiv’s incursion into the Kursk region.
Zelensky said Ukrainian troops had taken control of one more village in the Kursk region. Ukrainian officials have previously said Kyiv controls more than 90 settlements there.
What is happening in Ukraine’s east frontline as Putin’s forces advance?
10:19 , Alexander Butler
Ukrainian forces are advancing through Russia’s Kursk region as part of their historic cross-border assault, concentrating their resources on this attack but Moscow’s forces are doing the same in eastern Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted this week the situation on Ukraine’s eastern frontline was “difficult”. Ukraine’s general staff, meanwhile, reported that there had been dozens of combat clashes on several hot points of the frontline in that direction.
As reports surface that Ukraine may have shifted some military resources from the eastern Donetsk region, the site of the most intense fighting in Ukraine, to help prosecute their Kursk incursion, concerns abound that such a move could prove a fatal miscalculation.
What is happening in Ukraine’s east frontline as Putin’s forces advance?
US embassy warns of possible Russian attacks around Ukraine’s Independence Day
09:51 , Alexander Butler
The US embassy in Kyiv said there was a heightened risk of Russian missile and drone attacks throughout Ukraine in the coming days as the country prepares to mark 33 years since its independence from the Soviet Union on Saturday.
Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said earlier this week that Russia had launched 9,600 missiles and 14,000 drones during strikes on Ukraine since it launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
“The US Embassy in Kyiv assesses that during the next several days and through the weekend there is an increased risk of Russian drone and missile attacks throughout Ukraine in connection with Ukraine’s Independence Day on 24 August,” it said.
Russian military airbase left ablaze
09:29 , Alexander Butler
A Russian military airbase was left ablaze after Ukraine launched a massive drone barrage over Russia in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The Marinovka airfield in Volgograd was attacked at around 3.30am on Thursday, with Moscow claiming it shot down a drone with a fire started by falling debris.
Up to 28 drones were launched across Russia by Ukraine in the attack, according to the Russian defence ministry.
“Most of the drones were destroyed. As a result of the UAV crash, a fire broke out on the territory of a defense ministry facility,” Andrei Bocharov, the region’s governor, said.
Zelensky needles Putin with largest drone attack aimed at Moscow
08:47 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine has launched the largest drone attack on Moscow since Vladimir Putin’s invasion – its latest attempt to bring the war to Russia as it continues an audacious cross-border incursion in Kursk.
For months, Ukraine has targeted Russian refineries and airfields with drones but assaults on the capital – some 300 miles from the Ukrainian border – have been rarer.
One Russian dissident told The Independent that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was seeking to land a “serious psychological blow to Russians”.
Zelensky needles Putin with largest drone attack aimed at Moscow
Russia begins installing concrete shelters in Kursk region
08:03 , Alexander Butler
Russian authorities in the western Kursk region have begun installing concrete shelters to help protect civilians amid an ongoing Ukrainian incursion, the acting regional governor said on Thursday.
Governor Alexei Smirnov wrote on Telegram that city officials in Kursk, the regional capital, were installing the shelters in crowded places, including in 60 bus stations. Similar shelters will be placed in two other towns, he said
Russian soldier blows up military base before defecting to Ukraine
08:00 , Alexander Butler
A Russian soldier blew up his assault unit’s headquarters before escaping and defecting to Ukraine, Kyiv has revealed.
The soldier, an FPV drone pilot identified only by his call-sign “Silver”, said the operation was meticulously planned with Ukraine’s military intelligence and the Freedom of Russia Legion, a pro-Kyiv Russian partisan group.
Footage showed the moment Silver threw a grenade into a basement where his commander and fellow officers were sleeping, before he disappeared amidst the confusion.
Ukraine halted at Bryansk border, Russia claims
07:42 , Alexander Butler
Vladimir Putin’s forces prevented a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance team from piercing the border in the western Bryansk region, about 240 km (150 miles) from Kursk, a Russian official claimed.
Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomaz said troops repelled Kyiv’s attack in the region on Wednesday, with Moscow claiming it had began to push back Ukrainian forces in Kursk.
He said the attempted incursion took place in the Klimovo district which borders Ukraine’s Chernihiv region. The Bryansk region lies northwest of the Kursk region where a Ukrainian incursion has been underway since early August.
Ukraine smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region on Aug. 6 in an attempt to force Moscow to divert troops from the rest of the front, though Russian forces have continued to advance in eastern Ukraine in recent days.
Putin meets China’s Premier Li in new display of autocrat friendship
07:14 , Arpan Rai
Vladimir Putin met with Chinese premier Li Qiang yesterday as he hailed growing trade relations between the two countries, even as Moscow has become increasingly dependent on Beijing for political and economic support.
“Our trade relations are developing, developing successfully… The attention that the governments of the two countries on both sides are paying to trade and economic ties is yielding results,” Mr Putin said at the meeting in the Kremlin.
He also said that Russia and China have developed “large-scale plans” for economic and other projects.
“Chinese-Russian relations are at an unprecedentedly high level,” said Mr Li, who earlier had met with his Russian counterpart, prime minister Mikhail Mishustin.
The meeting took place as Russia struggled to push back a Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region now in its third week. And overnight, Moscow experienced one of the largest waves of drone attacks on the Russian capital since the start of the Ukraine conflict.
Russian news reports did not indicate whether Mr Putin discussed Ukraine with Mr Li.
Ukraine attempts to pierce Russian border again near Kursk, says Russia
07:01 , Arpan Rai
Russian forces prevented a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance team from piercing the border in the western Bryansk region, about 240km (150 miles) from the site of Ukraine’s incursion into the neighbouring Kursk region, a Russian official said.
Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomaz said that Federal Security Service border guards and Russian military units repelled an attack by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance team yesterday.
He said the attempted incursion took place in the Klimovo district which borders Ukraine’s Chernihiv region. The Bryansk region lies northwest of the Kursk region where a Ukrainian incursion has been underway since early August.
Ukraine smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region on 6 August in an attempt to force Moscow to divert troops from the rest of the front, though Russian forces have continued to advance in eastern Ukraine in recent days.
This comes as Russia’s defence ministry said it had shot down 28 drones over Russian territory in the early hours today, including 13 in the Volgograd region, seven in Rostov, four in Belgorod, two in Voronezh and one each in Bryansk and Kursk regions.
German support for Moldova strengthens Ukraine and regional security, country claims
07:00 , Alexander Butler
Moldovan President Maia Sandu said after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday that Berlin’s support for her country strengthened neighbouring Ukraine and security in the region.
She also said Moldova was open for investment and invited German businesses to participate in the country’s first tender for renewable energy production.
India’s Modi visits Ukraine this week. Here’s what it could mean
06:47 , Arpan Rai
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is set to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky in a historic visit tomorrow to Ukraine, a month and a half after he travelled to Moscow to hold talks with president Vladimir Putin.
Officials in India and Ukraine have said the visit will focus on boosting economic ties and cooperation in defence, science and technology.
Modi’s landmark visit is the first to Ukraine from a prime minister of India since the country established diplomatic relations with Ukraine over 30 years ago. He will arrive in Kyiv after a two-day visit to Poland.
Analysts say the timing of the trip is aimed at controlling fallout from the Indian leader’s 8-9 July trip to Russia.
The visit could also be an attempt to have India strike a more neutral stance after what has been seen as a lean toward Russia, given Modi’s recent Moscow visit, his country’s historic, Cold War-era relationship with Russia and New Delhi’s avoidance of directly criticising Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
India’s Modi visits Ukraine this week, after a recent trip to Moscow. Here’s what it could mean
Britain keeps poking the Russian bear – don’t be surprised if it lashes out
06:00 , Alexander Butler
Britain keeps poking the Russian Bear – don’t be surprised if it lashes out
Ukraine strikes Putin’s military facility in Volgograd region
05:44 , Arpan Rai
A fire broke out at a military facility in Russia’s southern Volgograd region after a Ukrainian drone crashed into it on Thursday, regional governor Andrei Bocharov said on Telegram.
The Russian official claimed there were no casualties and did not specify what facility had been attacked, but said the attack focused on the area of the Marinovka village, where a military airbase is located.
Russian priests bless fire trucks tackling massive blaze caused by Ukrainian attack
05:19 , Arpan Rai
Orthodox priests deployed an icon at the scene of a huge fuel depot fire – raging since Sunday in southern after a Ukrainian drone attack – hoping it would help tame its flames, the local diocese said yesterday.
The icon of the Unburnt Bush is considered by Christians in Russia as a talisman against fire.
The fire at the Proletarsk fuel depot in Rostov has been burning since Sunday despite a major operation by Russian firefighters to douse it.
“The (priests) spoke with the firefighters and blessed all the fire equipment,” the local Volgodonsk eparchy told Reuters in emailed comments.
An image released yesterday showed two Orthodox priests standing in a field on either side of a wooden stand holding the large icon as a thick plume of black and grey smoke rose into the sky from the depot behind them.
Local people have complained on social media about how polluted the air has become due to the fire. The authorities have said the level of harmful substances in the air is within permitted norms.
Around 20 of 74 storage tanks were on fire, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing local administration boss Valery Gornich. More than 500 firefighters were tackling the blaze, he said.
Vasily Golubev, the regional governor, said on Monday that 41 firefighters had sought medical treatment, including five who had been placed in emergency care.
UN nuclear watchdog chief to visit Kursk nuclear plant at end of August, says Russia
05:00 , Alexander Butler
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has confirmed he is ready to visit the Kursk nuclear power plant in Russia at the end of August, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
Russia’s Defence Ministry last week accused Ukraine of planning to attack the Kursk plant as part of its ongoing incursion into the Russian region, an assertion Kyiv denied.
“We expect that an understanding of the danger that Ukrainian provocations against Russian nuclear power plants represent will prompt the IAEA’s management to take concrete action to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants in Zaporizhzhia and Kursk,” Zakharova said at a weekly news briefing.
Kyiv says inflicted losses on Russian troops in clashes in east Ukraine
04:52 , Arpan Rai
Ukrainian forces came under repeated attack yesterday around the town of Pokrovsk, where Russian forces are pressing for a breakthrough, military officials said but added that they were inflicting losses on the attackers.
In a statement, the military general staff said there were 46 Russian attacks on the Pokrovsk front over the past 24 hours; of these, 44 were repelled and two were still underway as of 7pm GMT.
It also said 238 Russian troops were killed or wounded in the same area yesterday. It did not disclose Ukrainian losses.
Scholz says Ukraine did not consult Germany over Kursk
04:42 , Arpan Rai
Ukraine had not consulted Berlin about its shock incursion into Russia, said German chancellor Olaf Scholz, adding that he expected the military operation to be limited in terms of both time and territory.
“Ukraine has prepared its military operation in the Kursk region very secretly and without feedback, which is certainly due to the situation,” Mr Scholz said. “This is a very limited operation in terms of space and probably also in terms of time.”
Separately Mr Scholz said Germany would continue to be what he said was Ukraine’s biggest supporter in Europe after controversy in recent days over what some have called wavering German support for Kyiv over domestic politicking.
Speaking at a press conference after talks with Moldovan president Maia Sandu in Chisinau, Mr Scholz said Berlin was monitoring further developments around the incursion closely.
Ukrainian leaders have cast the attack as proof that their military can still succeed in offensive operations, and still surprise. Russia has vowed to repel the incursion.
Ukraine says it hits pontoon bridges in Russia with US-made weapons
04:19 , Arpan Rai
Ukraine said it had destroyed Russian pontoon bridges with US-made weapons to defend its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, while Moscow said its forces had halted Kyiv’s advance there and gained ground in eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv has announced a string of battlefield successes since it crossed unexpectedly into Kursk region on 6 August. Moscow has steadily inched forward in eastern Ukraine, pressuring troops worn down by two and a half years of fighting.
The Ukrainian statement said US-manufactured HIMARS rocket systems had been used as part of operations to disrupt Russian logistics in the Kursk region, Kyiv’s first official statement acknowledging its use of the weapon during its incursion.
Washington has not commented directly on the use of US-made weapons in Kursk region, while saying US policies have not changed and Ukraine was defending itself from Russia’s ongoing all-out invasion.
A video posted by Ukrainian special forces showed strikes on several pontoon crossings in Kursk region, where Russia has reported that Ukraine has destroyed at least three bridges over the Seym river as it seeks to hold the captured land.
“Where do Russian pontoon bridges ‘disappear’ in the Kursk region? Operators… accurately destroy them,” Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said on Telegram.
Ukraine minister says Kursk attack aims to protect border area
04:11 , Arpan Rai
Kyiv’s attack on Russia’s Kursk region was intended to protect Ukraine, the country’s defence minister Rustem Umerov told a visiting delegation of US Congressmen.
Referring to Kursk region, Mr Umerov said in a statement released by his ministry: “Our goals there are to clear the border from Russian military threats and make enemy shelling and attacks on our towns and villages impossible.”
Watch: Ukraine hits second bridge in Russia’s Kursk region
04:00 , Alexander Butler
Putin ally Chemezov says West risks global war over Ukraine
03:00 , Alexander Butler
A close ally of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin warned the US risked triggering a global war if it continued to “provoke” the conflict in Ukraine.
Sergei Chemezov, CEO of the Rostec corporation which supplies many of Russia’s arms for the war, said the world could be drawn into a mass conflict and Moscow was ready for confrontation.
“In a situation where the West, led by the United States, provokes war, we must be ready. The third year of the special operation is under way. Russia feels confident,” Mr Chemezov said.
“The further it goes, the greater the risk that the world will be drawn into a global conflict. It looks strange, but Western countries do not seem to understand just how fraught this is for them.”
Watch: Zelensky criticises UK for ‘slowing down’ support for fight against Russia
02:00 , Alexander Butler
Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do?
01:00 , Alexander Butler
Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do?
Ukraine’s soldiers seek revenge against Putin’s forces in Kursk
Thursday 22 August 2024 00:01 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine’s soldiers seek revenge against Russia in Kursk: ‘We laughed on enemy soil’
The Ukraine border village facing up to Russia’s wrath over Kursk attack
Wednesday 21 August 2024 23:00 , Alexander Butler
The Ukraine border village facing up to Russia’s wrath over Kursk attack
Switzerland says to join further EU sanctions against Russia
Wednesday 21 August 2024 22:00 , Alexander Butler
Switzerland’s government said on Wednesday it has decided to join further European Union measures in the bloc’s 14th sanctions package against Russia.
The measures contain a clarification of the bans on Russian diamonds, which are thus being internationally harmonized, the Swiss Federal Council said in a statement.
It said it had also extended deadlines for granting exemptions regarding the withdrawal of investments from Russia.
Why is Ukraine destroying bridges in Russia’s Kursk?
Wednesday 21 August 2024 21:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine has damaged or destroyed three bridges in the Russian region of Kursk as they attempt to consolidate positions gained during their ambitious cross-border assult and cut off supplies to Moscow’s troops.
The first bridge was destroyed in the village of Glushkovo, around eight miles west of Ukrainian troops inside of Russia, on Friday.
The second was destroyed on Saturday in the village of Zvannoye, a further five miles westward.
Why is Ukraine destroying bridges in Russia’s Kursk?
Mapped: Ukraine’s incursion into the Russian Kursk region explained
Wednesday 21 August 2024 20:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukrainian forces have captured hundreds of square miles of territory inside Russia in one of the most significant incursions into Russia since the Secind World War.
Thousands of Ukrainian troops smashed over the border from Ukraine’s Sumy region into the neighbouring Russian Kursk region on 6 August.
Since then, Kyiv’s forces have claimed to have taken more land in a fortnight than Russia has in Ukraine during this entire calendar year.
Mapped: Ukraine’s incursion into the Russian Kursk region explained
What is happening in Ukraine’s east frontline as Putin’s forces advance?
Wednesday 21 August 2024 19:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukrainian forces are advancing through Russia’s Kursk region as part of their historic cross-border assault, concentrating their resources on this attack but Moscow’s forces are doing the same in eastern Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted this week the situation on Ukraine’s eastern frontline was “difficult”. Ukraine’s general staff, meanwhile, reported that there had been dozens of combat clashes on several hot points of the frontline in that direction.
As reports surface that Ukraine may have shifted some military resources from the eastern Donetsk region, the site of the most intense fighting in Ukraine, to help prosecute their Kursk incursion, concerns abound that such a move could prove a fatal miscalculation.
What is happening in Ukraine’s east frontline as Putin’s forces advance?
Russian soldier blows up military base before defecting to Ukraine
Wednesday 21 August 2024 18:00 , Alexander Butler
A Russian soldier blew up his assault unit’s headquarters before escaping and defecting to Ukraine, Kyiv has revealed.
The soldier, an FPV drone pilot identified only by his call-sign “Silver”, said the operation was meticulously planned with Ukraine’s military intelligence and the Freedom of Russia Legion, a pro-Kyiv Russian partisan group.
Footage showed the moment Silver threw a grenade into a basement where his commander and fellow officers were sleeping, before he disappeared amidst the confusion.
Ukraine says it hits pontoon bridges in Russia, Moscow reports gains
Wednesday 21 August 2024 17:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine said it was destroying Russian pontoon bridges with US-made weapons to defend its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region as Moscow said its forces had halted Kyiv’s advance there and gained ground in eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv has reported a string of battlefield successes since it crossed unexpectedly into Russia’s Kursk region on 6 August but Moscow has steadily inched forward in eastern Ukraine, pressuring troops worn down by two-and-a-half years of fighting.
A video posted by Ukrainian special forces showed strikes on several pontoon crossings in Kursk region, where Russia has reported that Ukraine has destroyed at least three bridges over the Seym river as it seeks to hold the pocket of captured land.
Photos from the frontline in eastern Ukraine
Wednesday 21 August 2024 16:09 , Tom Watling
High resolution image shows extent of damage to Kursk bridge
Wednesday 21 August 2024 15:50 , Tom Watling
A high resolution satellite image of the third bridge to be targeted by Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk region shows it has been significantly damaged.
Karyzh Bridge
Glushkovsky District, Kursk OblastUltra high resolution gives a view of the damage to the bridge over the Seym at Karyzh
It is not completely destroyed but I do wonder if any heavy equipment can cross, IMO it would be dicey
20 August 2024 pic.twitter.com/3eNQ1kIRID
— MT Anderson (@MT_Anderson) August 21, 2024
Putin makes surprise trip to Chechnya for first time in 13 years – three weeks into Ukraine’s Kursk incursion
Wednesday 21 August 2024 15:20 , Tom Watling
Putin makes surprise trip to Chechnya – three weeks into Ukraine’s Kursk incursion
Firefighters tackle blaze in eastern Ukraine after home destroyed
Wednesday 21 August 2024 14:50 , Tom Watling
What is happening in Ukraine’s east frontline as Putin’s forces advance?
Wednesday 21 August 2024 14:30 , Tom Watling
What is happening in Ukraine’s east frontline as Putin’s forces advance?
UN nuclear watchdog chief to visit Kursk nuclear plant at end of August, says Russia
Wednesday 21 August 2024 14:11 , Tom Watling
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has confirmed he is ready to visit the Kursk nuclear power plant in Russia at the end of August, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
Russia’s Defence Ministry last week accused Ukraine of planning to attack the Kursk plant as part of its ongoing incursion into the Russian region, an assertion Kyiv denied.
“We expect that an understanding of the danger that Ukrainian provocations against Russian nuclear power plants represent will prompt the IAEA’s management to take concrete action to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants in Zaporizhzhia and Kursk,” Zakharova said at a weekly news briefing.
Why is Ukraine destroying bridges in Russia’s Kursk?
Wednesday 21 August 2024 14:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine has damaged or destroyed three bridges in the Russian region of Kursk as they attempt to consolidate positions gained during their ambitious cross-border assult and cut off supplies to Moscow’s troops.
The first bridge was destroyed in the village of Glushkovo, around eight miles west of Ukrainian troops inside of Russia, on Friday.
The second was destroyed on Saturday in the village of Zvannoye, a further five miles westward.
Why is Ukraine destroying bridges in Russia’s Kursk?
Putin ally Chemezov says West risks global war over Ukraine
Wednesday 21 August 2024 13:30 , Alexander Butler
A close ally of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin warned the US risked triggering a global war if it continued to “provoke” the conflict in Ukraine.
Sergei Chemezov, CEO of the Rostec corporation which supplies many of Russia’s arms for the war, said the world could be drawn into a mass conflict and Moscow was ready for confrontation.
“In a situation where the West, led by the United States, provokes war, we must be ready. The third year of the special operation is under way. Russia feels confident,” Mr Chemezov said.
“The further it goes, the greater the risk that the world will be drawn into a global conflict. It looks strange, but Western countries do not seem to understand just how fraught this is for them.”
Pictured: Russia and China bemoan Western sanctions
Wednesday 21 August 2024 13:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine’s soldiers seek revenge against Putin’s forces in Kursk
Wednesday 21 August 2024 12:30 , Alexander Butler
Ukrainian forces have damaged or destroyed three bridges in Russia’s Kursk region – aiming to cut crucial Russian supply lines in the latest chapter in Kyiv’s daring assault across the border, which the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky says is achieving its military aims.
Ukraine’s troops know Russia will respond but want to take as much revenge against Vladimir Putin’s forces as they can. Soldiers from one of the brigades that spearheaded the offensive into Kursk have told The Independent how they laughed in disbelief and joy as they dug trenches inside Russia.
“It was an incredible feeling to realise that this time we were invading them and we laughed like madmen as we dug trenches on enemy land, Russian soil,” said a soldier with the codename Lyasha.
Ukraine’s soldiers seek revenge against Russia in Kursk: ‘We laughed on enemy soil’
Mapped: Ukraine’s incursion into the Russian Kursk region explained
Wednesday 21 August 2024 12:00 , Alexander Butler
Mapped: Ukraine’s incursion into the Russian Kursk region explained
Ukraine says it destroyed 50 out of 69 Russian drones in overnight strike
Wednesday 21 August 2024 11:30 , Alexander Butler
Ukrainian forces destroyed 50 out of 69 attack drones launched by Russia during an overnight strike, Kyiv’s military said on Wednesday.
The air force said another 16 drones were likely downed by electronic warfare during the attack, which also included two ballistic and one cruise missiles. It said it shot down only the latter.
The military added that one drone had entered Ukraine from Belarus and another had returned to Russia.
Ukraine ratifies Rome Statute
Wednesday 21 August 2024 11:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine’s parliament voted to ratify the Rome Statute in a move set to pave the way for Kyiv to join the International Criminal Court.
In a Telegram post, Yaroslav Zhelezniak said 281 deputies had voted for the measure, a key requirement for Ukraine to eventually join the European Union.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and tries individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
Ukraine’s soldiers seek revenge against Putin’s forces in Kursk: ‘We laughed digging trenches on enemy soil’
Wednesday 21 August 2024 10:32 , Tom Watling
Ukraine’s soldiers seek revenge against Russia in Kursk: ‘We laughed on enemy soil’
Eastern Ukrainian town under siege – footage
Wednesday 21 August 2024 10:15 , Tom Watling
A video published online has shown the devastation wrought up on the eastern Ukrainian town of Myrnohrad as Russian forces advance towards it.
The town, which sits next door to the city of Pokrovsk, has come under siege from Russian forces in recent months.
Moscow’s troops are around four miles from Myrnohrad and six from Pokrovsk, which is seen as a linchpin of Ukraine’s defence of the wider Donetsk region.
Mapped: Ukraine’s incursion into the Russian Kursk region explained
Wednesday 21 August 2024 10:00 , Tom Watling
Mapped: Ukraine’s incursion into the Russian Kursk region explained
West African juntas write to UN over Ukraine’s alleged rebel support
Wednesday 21 August 2024 09:37 , Tom Watling
The juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the United Nations Security Council to denounce Ukraine‘s alleged support of rebel groups in West Africa’s Sahel region, a copy of their letter showed.
Mali cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine at the start of the month over comments by a spokesperson for Ukraine‘s military intelligence agency about fighting in Mali’s north that killed Malian soldiers and Russian Wagner mercenaries in late July.
The military government of Niger followed suit days later in solidarity with its neighbour.
The dispute broke out after the Ukrainian military intelligence agency spokesperson said Malian rebels had received “necessary” information to conduct the July attack.
Tuareg rebels said they killed at least 84 Wagner mercenaries and 47 Malian soldiers over days of fierce fighting, potentially Wagner’s heaviest defeat since it stepped in two years ago to help Mali’s junta fight insurgent groups.
Mali and Niger accused Ukraine of supporting “international terrorism”.
Ukraine has repeatedly called the allegations groundless and untrue. A Tuareg rebel alliance has also said it did not receive any Ukrainian support.
Footage shows destruction of Russian pontoon crossings in Kursk
Wednesday 21 August 2024 09:18 , Tom Watling
Footage released by Ukraine’s special forces has shown the systematic targeting of Russian bridges, pontoon crossings and Moscow’s engineering units responsible for their construction in the Kursk region.
“The video shows the effective impressions of [special forces] operators of enemy engineering equipment in the Kursk region, as well as the detection and correction of Hymars fire on bridges and pontoon crossings,” they wrote on their Telegram channel.
Ukrainian forces have destroyed three permanent bridges over the Seym River in Kursk over the past six days, as well as an unknown number of pontoon crossings built by the Russians to replace the bridges.
Russian troops south of the Seym in Kursk, to the west of Ukrainian forces in the Russian region, are reliant on these bridges and crossings for vital supplies.
WARNING: This footage contains depictions of active combat.
Ukrainian SOF in concert with Defense forces successfully destroyed pontoon crossings in Kursk region.
Moreover, russian field ammunition depot, EW vehicle as well as 152 mm howitzer were damaged. pic.twitter.com/VjMzIdLFvr
— SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES OF UKRAINE (@SOF_UKR) August 21, 2024
Photo shows a Ukrainian military campaign in Kursk
Wednesday 21 August 2024 09:00 , Tom Watling
Russian Rostov region on fire after Ukrainian claims of strike
Wednesday 21 August 2024 08:50 , Tom Watling
Footage has emerged online appearing to show a facility in the Russian Rostov region on fire after the Ukrainian military claimed they had struck a military complex in the area.
We reported earlier that Ukraine’s general staff reported they had struck an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system near the settlement of Novoshakhtinsk in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region.
The fire seen below is also from the settlement of Novoshakhtinsk.
Here are some of the latest photos from the frontline
Wednesday 21 August 2024 08:43 , Tom Watling
The Ukraine border village facing up to Russia’s wrath over Kursk attack: ‘The worst bombing I’ve faced’
Wednesday 21 August 2024 08:35 , Tom Watling
The Ukraine border village facing up to Russia’s wrath over Kursk attack
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