Russia
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Ukraine’s parliament has started voting on major ministerial dismissals announced yesterday. The parliament failed to sack the head of the state property fund, Vitaliy Koval, in the first vote, lawmakers said. It comes as the country’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, resigned earlier this morning – the highest-profile casualty so far of a major government reshuffle…
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More on the Russian strikes on the western city of Lviv overnight. We reported earlier that at least seven people had died including three children. Among those killed were a nine-year-old and a 14-year-old, regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said on Telegram. A medical worker is also believed to have died. The city’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi,…
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Russia has said the agenda of Washington, and the “collective West” has forced the country to change its nuclear doctrine. The existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in case of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that…
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Vladimir Putin is four months into his fifth term as Russian president and shows no signs of leaving his role. But when the Kremlin leader eventually chooses a successor, the Institute of the Study of War (ISW) says that person is likely to hold the same views as Mr Putin. The institute said in its…
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Mongolia ignored the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin as it rolled out the red carpet to receive him today. The Russian president should, in theory, have been handcuffed as he arrived – but the Mongolian government said earlier that it was difficult to arrest him due to the country’s position of energy…
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Russia has launched another attack on Ukraine, officials have said, less than a day after its deadly ballistic missile strike killed more than 50 people in Poltava. The regional administration of the northeastern Sumy region said Russian forces launched an airstrike on Sumy city tonight, hitting one of its university buildings. It said a guided…
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Ukraine says it has a new homegrown long-range weapon that will allow it to strike deep into Russia without asking permission from allies. With the characteristics of a missile and a drone, the “Palianytsia” was created due to urgent necessity, Ukrainian officials said, as Russia has dominated the skies since the outbreak of the war in…
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Ukrainian forces have reportedly recaptured nearly two square kilometers of territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region. The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade said it was behind the counteroffensive, but did not provide any details on when it was launched or what area had been recaptured. As such, it’s difficult to predict whether it will have further…
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The Indian prime minister is currently in Kyiv for a meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukrainian and Indian officials say the visit is focused on boosting economic ties and cooperation in defence, science and technology. However analysts have suggested there may be another motive: to show India striking a more neutral stance following what…
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The Wagner mercenary group has become “increasingly fragmented” in the year since its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and founder Dmitry Utkin were killed in a plane crash, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. “In comparison to its peak personnel count of around 50,000 in 2023, Wagner now highly likely maintains around 5,000 total personnel…
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Russia says it is banning 32 experts and employees at British thinktanks. Moscow has accused them of pushing an anti-Russian line in Western policy circles, Reuters reports. People on the list of those banned, which has been published on the Russian foreign ministry’s website, have also been accused of spreading disinformation designed to discredit Moscow. …
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Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman says there has been “no change” in the UK’s position on Ukraine using Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia’s borders. Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to use the missiles to attack targets deep inside Russia that could speed up the end of the war. But Britain, along with other Western governments, have so far…
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Ukraine has put Vladimir Putin “into a position he never dreamt in his worst nightmares”, the former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind has said. Asked whether the invasion into the Russian territory of Kursk had been a gamechanger in the two-year war between Russia and Ukraine, Sir Malcolm said: “It’s not by itself something that is…
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A shopping centre in Russian-controlled Donetsk city has been destroyed in what Russia has branded as a Ukrainian attack. Earlier, Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-installed governor of the city, said the apparent strikes sparked a fire of more than 10,000 square metres at the “Galaktika” shopping centre and injured seven people. Black smoke has been pouring…
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Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said Friday that Ukraine’s operation in western Russia’s Kursk region is linked to possible peace talks between the two countries. “In the Kursk region, we can clearly see how the military tool is being used objectively to persuade the Russian Federation to enter a fair negotiation process,” Podolyak said on…
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An anti-Putin group of Russians fighting on behalf of Ukraine has urged Russian soldiers in Kursk to surrender and fight with Kyiv’s army. In a call to Russian servicemen on Telegram, the Freedom of Russia Legion paramilitary group said political officers were telling them “to blow yourself up with your own grenade”. “But hundreds of…
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