MILITARY CONFLICTS

Capturing Severodonetsk, in the Donbas region, has become key goal of Russia

Ukraine has sunk a Russian vessel using newly-supplied Harpoon anti-ship missiles, British military intelligence confirmed this week. The Russian vessel Spasatel Vasily Bekh was reportedly attempting to deliver weapons and additional troops to a strategic Ukrainian territory when it was neutralized by opposing forces. It was seen carrying a Tor-M2MK anti-aircraft missile system, but it […]

An eight-year-old child was among 15 people killed by Russian shelling Tuesday in the eastern Kharkiv region, governor Oleg Synegubov said. Located in northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv is a region that borders Russia where many residents who fled at the start of the invasion have begun to return after Russian attempts to capture Ukraine’s second city were repelled. “Fifteen people […]

Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian grain exports sparked fresh tensions with Europe as fears grow of a global food crisis, while Kyiv accused Moscow of stepping up attacks in the east of the country. In New York, Dmitry Muratov, the Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize gold medal for $103.5 million to […]

Ukraine said Monday it had lost control of a village adjacent to the eastern industrial city of Severodonetsk, the center of weeks of fierce fighting with invading Russian troops. “Unfortunately, we do not control Metyolkine anymore. And the enemy continues to build up its reserves,” the Lugansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday said in a statement […]

The war in Ukraine could last “for years,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned in an interview published Sunday by German daily newspaper Bild, while reiterating calls for Western countries to provide long-term support to Kyiv. “We must be prepared for this to last for years,” the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said. “We […]

The leaders of the European Union’s biggest economies are making their first trip to Ukraine since Russia sent troops to Ukraine on February 24

Industrial hub under bombardment as Russia focuses offensive on eastern Donbas region

Ukraine has deployed the Harpoon anti-ship missile system provided by Denmark last month, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov announced last week. Ukraine has fielded the land-based version of the Boeing system to strengthen its coastal defense, as it currently relies on the domestically-produced Neptune anti-ship missile. The Neptune is a Soviet-era system reportedly copied from the […]

Syrian air defenses intercepted most of the missiles