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President Zelenskyy, in a parallel effort, paid a visit to wounded soldiers in Kharkiv, thanking them and awarding state honors. Ukrainian forces in Vovchansk have halted the Russian advance, though this remains unverified. Russia's offensive aims to stretch Ukraine's resources across multiple regions, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.
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NATO’s top military officer has said Russia’s armed forces are incapable of any major advance. “The Russians don’t have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough,” NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe Christopher Cavoli told reporters on Thursday. “More to the point, they don’t have the skill and the capability to do it; to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage,” the US General said. His comments come as Ukrainian forces engage in fierce battles with Russia's troops for control of Vovchansk, a key town in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv r...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy has visited Kharkiv amidst an ongoing Russian offensive. At the bedside of wounded soldiers in a military hospital, Zelenskyy decorated doctors and fighters. He posted on X saying, "Thanks to Ukraine's Defence Forces and our efforts, we were able to instil more confidence in the Vochansk direction." "But Russian shelling continues, and threats remain. Today, the head of the Vovchansk local administration was wounded." Ukrainian units have been locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s forces in the key northeastern Ukrainian town of Vovchansk. Six peop...
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In the two years since Russia launched its unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine, the vigorous international support that erupted in response has begun to wane. The recent spectacle of horse-trading at the US Congress on a new $61-billion funding package, together with emerging divergences of opinion in Europe, indicates that competing priorities are leading to a slow dilution of commitments. While Russia may have intended to win with a shock and awe approach, it seems it may be having more success with the long play of attrition and waiting for splits to emerge in the Western alliance. A...
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Ukraine's intelligence service intercepted a Russian plot to murder President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of Vladimir Putin's re-inauguration this week. Vasyl Maliuk, the head of the Ukrainian State Security Service, said in a statement that Russian intelligence agents targeting Zelenskyy sought out members of the Ukrainian military close to the president's security detail who could take the leader hostage and later kill him. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which oversees security for top officials, were detained on suspicion of participating in the plan. The colonels are alleged to ...
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Lawmakers will now head back to their native countries to prepare for the elections in June when voters will choose the 720 members of the next legislature. For many in the Parliament, the respite will doubtless be welcomed after five years of navigating a formidable succession of global emergencies, haggling over transformative pieces of legislation and scrambling to manage PR disasters. "I would never have been able to predict both how much we managed to achieve, but also how many crises and challenges we've had to overcome and to handle," the Parliament's president, Roberta Metsola, told Eu...
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One of the soldiers, who goes by the call-sign "Butcher", says the unit is having to improvise to fill the gap left by lack of shells and artillery.
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The United States has confirmed that it secretly sent long-range missiles to Ukraine for use on the battlefield against Russia. US President Joe Biden approved the delivery of the long-range Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in February and March, and Ukraine has reportedly used them twice. Speaking at a press conference in Washington, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the missiles had been shipped in response to Russia procuring weapons from other countries. “This followed Russia's procurement and use of North Korea's ballistic missiles against Ukraine, as well as Russ...
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Two German-Russian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of espionage, one of them accused of agreeing to carry out attacks on potential targets including US military facilities in hopes of sabotaging aid for Ukraine, prosecutors said Thursday. The two, identified only as Dieter S. and Alexander J. in line with German privacy rules, were arrested Wednesday in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth, federal prosecutors said. They said Dieter S. had been discussing possible acts of sabotage in Germany with a person linked to Russian intelligence since October, and that the main aim was to underm...
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At a conference to celebrate NATO's 75th anniversary, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Ukraine will join the alliance – and that the purpose of the summit in Brussels was to work toward that membership. During the meeting, members of the Alliance praised determination and perseverance of Ukrainians and promised to continue to provide aid for the country. Yet Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed that the alliance does not consider itself directly involved in the war. "We don't have any plans of having any NATO combat troops inside Ukraine," Stoltenberg said. "The Ukrainians a...
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