Defending champion Oleksandr Abramenko won Ukraine’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday and celebrated by getting a hug from Russian skier Ilia Burov at a time of rising tensions between the countries. Qi Guangpu of China won the men’s aerial event, while Abramenko took silver. Burov earned bronze for the second straight Olympics. … Read more
Women and children handled a range of weapons, including assault rifles and rocket launchers, at a civil defense exercise in the city of Uzhhorod in Western Ukraine A boy handled a sniper rifle at the civil defense exercise in the city of Uzhhorod ( Image: Future Publishing via Getty Images) These chilling pictures show Ukrainian … Read more
Ukraine is again looking warily over its eastern border as Russia threatens its territorial integrity† In recent weeks, a buildup of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border has rattled Western leaders fearful of an incursion similar to, or perhaps even more wide-ranging than, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014† Then, on Dec. 17, 2021, Vladimir … Read more
KHARKIV, Ukraine — With her platinum hair, stylish clothes and manicured nails, Tetyana Bednyak cuts a striking figure in a hardware store otherwise populated by burly men in drab builder’s attire. And unlike most other shoppers, Bednyak, 45, is looking for equipment for trench warfare. An advertising company owner, she is one of thousands of … Read more
Sergei Naryshkin, head of SVR foreign intelligence, says Ukraine are ready for war, as he described reports of Russian hostility as a “blatant lie” by the West Russian state TV shows ‘offensive’ Ukrainian war preparations Ukrainian forces are “fully” prepared for war according to Russia’s spy boss, who warned “humanity’s existence” could be at stake … Read more
Reuters In Moscow, Macron found a different, tougher Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin spent much of his marathon talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron this week on the Ukraine crisis reciting grievances that date back to the end of the Cold War, two sources in the French leader’s entourage said. In the first detailed read-out on … Read more
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Exclusive: Olena Bilozerska, 42, has fought in the blown-up buildings and trenches of contested Donbass in eastern Ukraine and says she will do it again if Russian troops invade Ukraine: Moment before a sniper shoots at Russian targets A battle-hardened Ukrainian sniper who has racked up 10 confirmed kills fighting pro-Russian separatists has vowed to … Read more
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