[ad_1] Ukraine said Russian forces in their new offensive had captured the town of Kreminna, an administrative centre of 18,000 people in Luhansk, one of the two Donbas provinces, after a ferocious night of artillery bombardment along a 482-kilometre front line in the east. Driven back by Ukrainian forces in March from an assault on Kyiv in the north, Russia has instead poured troops into the east for the launch of what its foreign minister,…
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[ad_1] Marine Le Pen’s comments in an interview in early February this year were particularly forthright: “I do not believe AT ALL that Russia wishes to invade Ukraine,” she said. The remarks were also rather unfortunate, given that barely a fortnight later Vladimir Putin sent thousands of troops, amassed on Ukraine’s border, into the country. Russian bombardments have since flattened towns and cities, and there have been multiple reports of Russian soldiers murdering, torturing and…
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[ad_1] On March 21, Natali called her father to wish him a happy birthday. It was Viktor Maruniak’s 60th, but, on the phone, he sounded sad and nervous. Maruniak is the starosta, or elected head, of Stara Zbur’ivka, a village more than an hour outside of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine. Russian forces now occupied it, Maruniak told Natali. He would call her back later. “And I told him, ‘Okay, I will wait for…
"Ukraine’s disappeared: How Russia uses abductions to win control" [ad_1] Issued on: 27/03/2022 – 08:32 Russia has started destroying Ukraine’s fuel and food storage depots and bringing troops on rotation to the countries’ shared border, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior ministry said Sunday. Kyiv has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross not to open a planned office in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, saying it would legitimise Moscow’s ‘deportation’ of Ukrainians. Follow all the developments in Ukraine on our live blog. All times in Paris…
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[ad_1] After three weeks of fighting, Russia is beginning to deploy increasingly brutal tactics in Ukraine, including indiscriminate shelling of cities and “medieval” siege warfare. Other elements of its military strategy, however, are conspicuously absent — cyberwarfare among them. Russia has a history of employing cyberwarfare tactics, which some experts believed could feature prominently in its invasion of Ukraine. The cyberattacks launched by Russia in the conflict so far have been relatively minimal, though, and…
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[ad_1] A week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a checkpoint stands in Independence Square in the capital city, Kyiv. Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images This story is part of War in Ukraine, CNET’s coverage of events there and of the wider effects on the world. What’s happening Ukraine’s military and citizens continue to resist the Russian invasion. As Russia’s attacks escalate, casualties grow and the refugee situation becomes a major crisis. Why it matters Leaders in the…
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[ad_1] As the minutes ticked down Saturday to the start of a weekend curfew in Kyiv, Lydia Sokolova was one of the few ordinary citizens out on the streets of the Ukrainian capital. Her mission — to feed her son’s cat — was more than worth any risk, she says. At 74, she appears determined not to let the threat of a Russian invasion instil any sense of panic in her. “I am not going…
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[ad_1] European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says sanctions will will target strategic sectors of the Russian economy. European Union leaders will impose new sanctions on Russia, freezing its assets, halting its banks’ access to European financial markets and targeting “Kremlin interests” for its invasion of Ukraine, senior officials have said. An emergency summit at 19:00 GMT on Thursday will also discuss offering EU candidate status to Ukraine, Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda said, a…
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