Members of Ukraine’s 1st Separate Assault Battalion describe themselves as firemen. Their job is to rapidly deploy to areas along the front that are in danger of collapse. Lately, their service has been in high demand: the front is burning. A large-scale counter-offensive last year failed to achieve meaningful victories, and since then Russia has been on the attack. One of its priorities appears to be Kupyansk, a city in northeastern Ukraine, some twenty miles from the Russian border. According
A disc-shaped, completely silent UFO was caught on camera by Ukrainian troops in the war-torn country, in footage shared exclusively with DailyMail.com.
‘What the f-[expletive] is this? Why isn’t it moving?’ the men with Ukraine’s 406th Battalion can be heard debating as they witnessed the deadly calm UFO hovering over their warzone.
While the size, altitude, and shape of the object remain a mystery, the drone’s own altitude indicates that the apparent object could be a large craft over 30
For Ukraine’s tech startups, the last two years have been anything but business as usual.
Despite drone strikes and a battered war-time economy, cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa remain home to a thriving tech ecosystem.
As the war grinds on, a number of Ukraine’s entrepreneurs have been fighting their own battle with Russia.
Yet their fight has not just been to preserve their country’s territory – but also its identity.
MailOnline spoke with the CEOs and founders of some
Russian soldiers have raped and tortured men as well as women in Ukraine as a weapon of war to ‘destroy’ the population for generations to come, international activists and lawyers have revealed.
Some Ukrainian men who were detained by Russian soldiers in the Kherson region were raped with sticks while others were tortured with electrical shocks to their genitals, experts say.
The stigma surrounding wartime sexual violence and Ukraine’s conservative society means it can be particularly challenging for male rape
On the evening of June 27th, in eastern Ukraine, four friends of mine stopped for dinner at the Ria Lounge, a restaurant attached to a shopping center in the city of Kramatorsk, in the embattled Donetsk region. They had spent the previous two days travelling around the area, speaking to the locals and getting a firsthand look at the war’s destruction. They had been on the road all day and were hungry by the time they reached Kramatorsk. At around
Video released by the Ukrainian military shows a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian naval ship in the port of Novorossiysk.
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A Russian warship was seriously damaged in an overnight Ukrainian naval drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea navy base at Novorossiysk, two sources said on Friday (4 August), after Russia said it had fended off the attack.
The civilian port, which handles 2% of the world’s oil supply and also exports grain, temporarily halted all ship movement before resuming normal operations, according to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium which operates an oil terminal there.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said in a short
Ukrainian drones targeted a Russian naval base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on Friday, according to Moscow’s defense ministry.
In a statement, the ministry said two uncrewed drones had attacked the base, but were “detected and destroyed” by Russian ships guarding the harbor before they could damage any infrastructure. There were no casualties, according to local authorities.
But footage shared widely on Telegram appeared to show a Russian warship damaged and listing in the water after the attack,
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The Ukrainian counteroffensive, under way since the spring, is slogging through miles of trenches and minefields. Progress will depend on the battlefield, not on Western impatience.
First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
Dragging On, as It Must
Attacking an entrenched
The first several weeks of Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive have not been kind to the Ukrainian troops who were trained and armed by the United States and its allies.
Equipped with advanced American weapons and heralded as the vanguard of a major assault, the troops became bogged down in dense Russian minefields under constant fire from artillery and helicopter gunships. Units got lost. One unit delayed a nighttime attack until dawn, losing its advantage. Another fared so badly that commanders yanked
