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News World Europe Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s forces advance in key eastern town as Kyiv’s troops plead for ammunition Ukraine’s military spokesman says it was “impractical” to hold on to part of Chasiv Yar after Russian troops entered
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Find out more Russian forces have broken through Ukrainian positions defending the strategically important eastern city of Chasiv Yar .
After months of bombardments , the Kremlin ’s army pushed back forces from party of the city, Ukraine ’s military spokesman said on national television on Thursday.
Nazar Voloshyn said: “It became impractical to hold the canal neighbourhood after the enemy entered it, because it threatened the lives and health of our servicemen and the positions of our defenders were destroyed.
“The command decided to pull back to more protected and prepared positions, but even there the enemy does not stop its active combat actions,”
Holding the city was deemed crucial for Ukraine, with the site a highly sought-after due to its strategic location and elevated position.
The Russian advancement comes after the commander of a Ukrainian brigade operating near Chasiv Yar said his forces were in need of ammunition as President Volodymyr Zelensky bemoaned the time it was taking for equipment to reach the front line.
Ukraine is now receiving Western weaponry and ammunition after assistance from Washington was halted for months by disputes in the U.S. Congress, which announced its latest $2.3 billion military aid package this week, including artillery rounds, interceptor missiles and anti-tank weapons.
Five killed in Ukraine after Russian missiles hit Dnipro A Russian missile and drone attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed five civilians and injured 47 others, including a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.Blasts blew out some windows of a shopping mall, raining shards onto the street, photos published by local officials showed.
Mayor Borys Filatov said the daytime attack also shattered windows in two schools and three kindergartens. Debris struck the intensive care unit of a children’s hospital, and a fire broke out in another hospital.
Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video of the strike and showed a missile with a fiery trail streaking over buildings in Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, and debris flying into the air from its impact.
The attacks ravaged other parts of Ukraine as well. In the Kharkiv region in the northeast, Russian shelling struck a village council building, killing one person and injuring two others, regional head Oleh Suniehubov said.
Elsewhere in the region, a Russian glide bomb struck a residential building in the village of Ruska Lozova, injuring at least two people. Others could be trapped under rubble, Syniehubov said.
Arpan Rai 4 July 2024 04:13
Erdogan tells Putin that Turkey can help reach fair end to Russia-Ukraine war Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Ankara could help establish a basis to end the Ukraine-Russia war and that a fair peace suiting both sides was possible, the Turkish presidency said.
They two leaders also discussed the war in Gaza and ways to end the conflict in Syria, the Turkish presidency said in a statement after Erdogan and Putin met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan.
Alexander Butler 4 July 2024 04:00
Pictured: Ukrainian convicts join the army and attend a training session in Kharkiv Ukrainian convicts attend a training session in Kharkiv (AFP via Getty Images) Ukrainian convicts attend a training session in Kharkiv (AFP via Getty Images) Alexander Butler 4 July 2024 03:00
Survey finds popular support for NATO at a challenging time for the Western alliance A survey of people in 13 of the nations belonging to NATO found a median of about 6 in 10 held a favorable view of the Western military alliance, the Pew Research Center said Tuesday.
The poll was released ahead of a July 9-11 NATO summit in Washington, which is being held at a challenging time for the 75-year-old Western military alliance. The 32 NATO member countries are adjusting their long-term plans and strategies to counteract a more aggressive Russian President Vladimir Putin and respond to Ukraine’s need for sustained support against invading Russian forces.
Meanwhile, the presidential reelection bid of Donald Trump, who long has spoken scathingly of NATO allies and admiringly of Putin, has some NATO members worrying about the future commitment of the alliance’s most powerful military and economy.
A new survey by Pew Research Center finds public support for NATO in some of the countries belonging to the Western military alliance
Alexander Butler 4 July 2024 02:00
World Athletics leader Sebastian Coe visits Ukraine and invites Zelenskyy to Olympic track meet World Athletics leader Sebastian Coe visited Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv over the weekend
Alexander Butler 4 July 2024 01:00
Troops look for weak spots as Russia sets the stage for another push in Ukraine Russia has made incremental but steady advances in the Donetsk region
Alexander Butler 3 July 2024 23:30
Litvinenko’s widow ‘disgusted’ by Farage and Reform UK candidate’s praise for Putin Russian dissidents living in the UK have hit back at the “deeply offensive” words of admiration for Vladimir Putin spoken by Nigel Farage and another Reform UK candidate.
It comes as a British former defence attache who was previously stationed in Moscow described Mr Farage and his party, now third in the polls, as “deeply malign actors ... working against the security interests of our country”.
When asked about the accusations, a Reform UK spokesperson burst into laughter before suggesting that Julian Malins, a Reform party candidate who last weekend bragged about meeting Mr Putin and said that he “seemed very good”, was merely a highly intelligent and “eccentric sort of character”.
Russian dissidents and a British ex-military official formerly stationed in Moscow say the party represents a threat to Britain’s national security
Alexander Butler 3 July 2024 22:30
Ukraine offers prisoners release at a high price About 27,000 inmates could potentially be eligible for the new program
Alexander Butler 3 July 2024 21:30
Russia is ordering its troops to kill Ukrainian prisoners of war – why? Russian commanders are ordering their forces to kill surrendering Ukrainian soldiers in a plan to “terrify” droves of Russian troops into not giving themselves up.
Many newly conscripted and poorly trained Russian soldiers realise their lives are being squandered in human-wave attacks, according to Ukrainian officials.
Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson for Kyiv’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, says orders to kill Ukrainians who could be taken prisoner come from the “highest level” – the Kremlin. The instructions are designed to “terrify” their own soldiers, he adds.
While the true number of slain soldiers is currently not known, evidence of Moscow’s ‘take no prisoners’ policy is starting to become horrifyingly clear. Askold Krushelnycky reports
Alexander Butler 3 July 2024 20:30
Russian forces launch recruitment drive in Africa to fight war in Ukraine Russia is conducting a new recruitment drive for fighters in Africa for its war in Ukraine after suffering heavy casualties on the ground in lethal combat, according to Western intelligence officials.
The enrolment campaign has intensified following the rapid spread of Moscow’s influence on the continent, boosted by the overthrow of pro-Western governments in several countries by military regimes and the subsequent withdrawal of US and European forces.
Mercenaries formerly with the Wagner Group – which was disbanded after the failed coup attempt by its Russian leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was subsequently killed along with his senior hierarchy in an air crash – are training young men, some from tribal militias, for battle in Europe.
Moscow is turning to a new mercenary group, Africa Corps, to train paid fighters from across the continent to fight its war in Ukraine
Alexander Butler 3 July 2024 19:30
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