They were always sure that they were the super elite of the Russian army. It was instilled in their heads at the military institutes: “You are the elite! You are the thunderstorm of the world!” And when they finally got to serve and sit down at the con…
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The “planned, cynical Russian war crime” during the battle of Ilovaisk in 2014 “will never (…
Intelligence officers from Defence Intelligence of Ukraine’s Active Operations Department, working with the 45th Separate Artillery Brigade’s aerial reconnaissance unit, discovered and fired on two Russian military facilities in occupied Donetsk Oblast…
“I have taken the decision to replace Lieutenant General Yurii Sodol, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with Brigadier General Andrii Hnatov”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address on 24 June.
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Almost immediately following the end of the EuroMaidan Revolution in Ukraine in February 2014, Russia swiftly moved to annex and occupy the Crimean Peninsula. Within a couple of months, unrest erupted in eastern Ukraine followed by Russian-backed milit…
“Today, I met with Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi” is how President Zelenskyy began his address on the evening of 8 February, announcing that he had dismissed Zaluzhnyi from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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8 February, 2024 Valerii Zaluzhnyi. Photo credits: Radio Liberty
General Valerii Zaluzhnyi has been dismissed from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi was appointed as the new army chief of…
At least 2,442 children from Ukraine between the ages of six and 17 have been transported to 13 facilities in Belarus following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to researchers from Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Re…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has congratulated nearly 50 Ukrainian cities celebrating their day this weekend and vowed that Ukraine will not leave a single inch of its land to the Russians.
Source: Zelenskyy on Telegram
Quote: “Almost 50 Ukr…
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has appointed Hero of Ukraine Denys Chaiuk as the head of the Lviv Oblast Territorial Centre for Staffing and Social Support [a military enlistment office].
Source: Lviv Oblast Territorial …