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Russian shelling of Ukrainian front-line villages kills 4 and hits top floors of an apartment bloc

June 29, 2024 7:26 pm

The attacks came as Russia continues to stretch out Ukrainian forces in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front.

Between the offensives: Images from a journey in Ukraine’s borderland

June 27, 2024 6:52 pm

Much of this area, in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, was farmland once. Now a farmhouse hosted a counter-saboteur unit — made up of anti-Putin Russians, to avoid sending Ukrainian troops into Russia — preparing before dawn for a cross-border raid.

Russia: officials including Deputy Russian military chief of staff, jailed for bribery in latest arrests of high defense official

May 23, 2024 10:55 pm

Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin is also the head of the defense ministry's main communications directorate. He is being held in custody for two months, Russian news agencies cited a military garrison court as saying, but other details of the case were not reported.

Russian lawmakers extend age limit for compulsory military draft

July 25, 2023 9:15 pm

All Russian men aged 18-27 are currently obliged to serve in the military for one year, although many avoid the draft by using deferments granted to students, people with chronic illnesses and others.

Last Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol is a sprawling steel plant turned fortress

April 20, 2022 10:26 am

But the Azovstal plant makes for a formidable fortress, an immense industrial complex of thick concrete and walls, steel doors and reinforced underground warrens.

How Ukraine’s outgunned Air Force is fighting back against Russian jets

March 23, 2022 7:18 pm

Nearly a month into the fighting, one of the biggest surprises of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s failure to defeat the Ukrainian air force.

How Ukraine’s military has resisted Russia so far

March 18, 2022 1:50 pm

To the surprise of many military analysts, Ukrainian troops are mounting a stiffer-than-expected resistance to Russian force, fighting with a resourcefulness and creativity that US analysts said could trip up Russian troops for weeks or months to come.

In Punjab markets, an unlikely victim of Russia-Ukraine tension: cotton

March 01, 2022 12:25 pm

With buyers adopting a cautious approach, the prices of the raw natural fibre, which had skyrocketed to nearly double the minimum support price (MSP) amid shortfall in production and hoarding of stocks by farmers, have crashed by as much as Rs 10 per kilo in Punjab markets.

Russia expels Czech diplomats, says Prague took hostile step

April 19, 2021 9:46 am

Czech Ambassador Vitezslav Pivonka was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday evening and told that the 20 diplomats must leave by the close of Monday.

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South Korea fires warning shots at Russian military aircraft in its airspace

July 23, 2019 12:29 pm

The Russian planes entered South Korean airspace, the Defense Ministry in Seoul reports. It was the first time that Russian military aircraft violated South Korean airspace.