Taras Chmut, the head of the Come Back Alive foundation, a Ukrainian non-governmental military charity organisation, has noted that Russian forces have no potential to capture the cities of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia,
Ukrainian gains in Kamyanske may be fleeting. Reportedly taking advantage of the temporary confusion resulting from a rotation of Russian troops, a small Ukrainian force advanced into Kamyanske, a village on the Russian side of the front line in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Vladimir Putin was dealt a blow with Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast but his forces ended the year with momentum in the Donbas.
Russia has occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region since the first days of its 2022 invasion. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he met soldiers in the frontline southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, as Russia steps up pressure on what had been a relatively calm part of the battlefield.
The sabotage operation disrupted the logistical supply routes to Russian troops in the occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia.
A British former paratrooper who traveled to fight in Ukraine and whose body was later found miles from the frontline was “unlawfully killed” by someone claiming to be his friend, a court has concluded.
Since 2022, Ukraine has liberated 42,000 square kilometers of occupied land, but little since 2023. A summer offensive this year saw Russian troops advance rapidly in the Donetsk region, stage a return to the Kharkiv region, and mount assaults in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukraine lacks the military capability to retake all the territories occupied by Russia since 2014, president Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged, as he urged the West to take stronger action to confront Moscow.
Two Russian airports were put under flight restrictions early Saturday after authorities alleged an attack by Ukrainian drones, according to state-run news agencies.
Spying runs in the family for Oleh Kolesnikov. The Ukrainian citizen said his father was a Soviet intelligence agent in Cuba during the Cold War, posing as a translator, and his cousin works with the Russian security service.