KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has repeatedly asked Russia to hand over the bodies of scores of prisoners of war who Moscow claimed were killed in the downing of a Russian military transport plane by Ukrainian forces, but Russia has refused, a Ukrainian intelligence official said. Andrii Yusov, the spokesperson for Ukraine‘s military intelligence, in […]
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week’s crash of a military transport plane that Moscow claimed was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv’s forces. After the Jan. 24 crash of the Il-76 plane in Russia’s […]
The threat posed by China and its anti-U.S. allies like Russia, Iran and North Korea is more dangerous today than ever, two former high-ranking administration leaders told Congress on Tuesday. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China‘s Communist Party leaders are linking global crises in Ukraine, the Middle East and elsewhere as part of […]
The threat posed by China and its anti-U.S. allies like Russia, Iran and North Korea is more dangerous today than ever, two former high-ranking administration leaders told Congress on Tuesday. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China‘s Communist Party leaders are linking global crises in Ukraine, the Middle East and elsewhere as part of […]
Germany is contemplating reinstating conscription because war with Russia within the next 5 years is now considered a distinct possibility. That sounds insane despite the fact that European countries are seriously underprepared to defend themselves. Germany barely has a functional military anymore, despite promises to radically increase military readiness. German Leopard tanks are failing in […]
BANGKOK — A visiting dissident rock band that has been critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine and whose members were arrested last week in Thailand might face deportation to Russia, according to human rights advocates and fans on Monday. Five of the seven musicians playing with the progressive rock band, Bi-2, traveled using Russian passports, […]
Ukrainian forces have destroyed more than 360 enemy main battle tanks and at least 700 armored combat vehicles since early October, when Russian forces in eastern Ukraine went on the attack after several months spent in defensive positions, British officials said. While the Russian forces have achieved “minor territorial gains” since October, their industrial capability […]
Investigators have found the flight recorders of a Russian military transport plane that crashed in a border region near Ukraine, Russian media reported Thursday, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of shooting down the aircraft, which it said was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. The Il-76 crashed in a huge ball of fire in […]
China is building two advanced nuclear reactors with Russian assistance that will produce plutonium for Beijing’s rapid buildup of nuclear weapons, according to a new Air Force think tank study. The two fast neutron reactors under construction are located on an island off the coast of China’s Fujian Province opposite Taiwan. One reactor under construction […]
Ukraine exported more agricultural products by sea in December than at any point since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Source link
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