After weeks of discussions, France and Italy have agreed upon sending the SAMP/T air defence system to Ukraine.
Source: This was revealed after a telephone call between the French and Italian Ministers of Defence, reports European Pravda with reference…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has registered draft resolutions in Verkhovna Rada [Parliament], proposing to expand the powers of the heads of military administrations of a number of settlements in Kherson and Kharkiv Oblasts.
Source: Interfax-Ukraine
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Last week (January 23–29) saw a distinctive turning point in strengthening Ukraine’s defense capability. Our Armed Forces will receive German Leopard tanks and US Abrams tanks. Germany also allowed other countries to re-export tanks of their production…
“The Moskals [Muscovites, a formerly neutral, now derogatory term for Russians – ed.] have been coming to my family for a century, destroying and taking away everything we own, everything we value,” says 44-year-old Said Ismagilov.
Ismagilov, a native …
Two Kyiv metro stations, Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) and Khreshchatyk, which have been closed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in February, will resume operations on Tuesday, 20 December.
Source: V…
Russia planned to seize Ukraine in 10 days and prepare the annexation by August (it is symbolic, because in August is the Independence Day of Ukraine).
The Russian counterintelligence has prepared lists of 1) Ukrainian citizens who s…
On 1 December, the Ukrainian and Russian sides conducted another exchange of prisoners of war in the “50 for 50” format; Ukraine, in particular, brought back the defenders of Mariupol, whom the Russians had held in Olenivka.
Source: Russian Defence Min…
Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, said that the Kremlin would condemn the creation of a special tribunal to investigate Russia’s crimes.
Source: Interfax, a Kremlin-aligned news outlet
Quote from Peskov: “As…
Vitalii Klychko, Mayor of Kyiv, has not ruled out a complete blackout in Kyiv with no electricity, heating, water or communications. He is calling on Kyiv residents to stock up on essentials and consider temporarily moving out of the city.
Source: Klyc…
According to the Italian newspaper, from 20 to 30 US-made M109 155 mm self-propelled howitzers are to be sent to Ukraine. These M109 howitzers are part of the…