More than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded its neighbour in February last year, according to Ukraine's war crimes office. Handmade crosses stand in a residential area on a makeshift grave for a civilian killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Photo: EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY At least 10,749 civilians have been killed and 15,599 have been
The presence of Russia's Wagner Group forces in Belarus poses no military threat to Poland unless the fighters are provided with mechanized equipment, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US think tank. Wagner Group mercenaries.PAP/Stringer / Anadolu Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM Polish officials said on Tuesday that two Belarusian helicopters entered Polish airspace and announced an increased troop presence at the Polish-Belarusian border in response, the Institute
Russian forces facing a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Zaporizhia region have been engaged in intense fighting for over eight weeks due to a lack of rotation, according to a report by the British defense ministry on Tuesday. Photo:PAP/Abaca The combat operations in the southern section of the front, near Orichiv in the Zaporizhia region, and the western
Tensions keep rising in Poland and the Baltic states as the combined forces of the Belarusian army and Russia's notorious Wagner Group of mercenaries seem to be expanding their presence along Belarus' border with the European Union. Lithuania's President Gitanas Nausėda said on Monday that the presence of the Wagner Group fighters near his country's border represented “a serious threat.” He added that the Lithuanian army would
Ukraine's Chief of Military Intelligence has said that the Wagner Group's presence in Belarus does not worry the Ukrainian Armed Forces at all. The Wagner Group in Belarus.PAP/EPA/ARKADY BUDNITSKY In an interview for the Ukrainian TSN site, Kyrylo Budanov has said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not at all worried about the presence of teh Wagner Group in
The European Union has imposed sanctions on seven Russian individuals and five entities for disseminating propaganda in support of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, officials have said. Photo:EU2017EE Estonian Presidency, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The decision was announced by the Council of the EU on Friday, Polish state news agency PAP reported. The Council said
More than 500 days after the Russian aggression on Ukraine, Poland continues to support Kyiv in a very practical sense that is “very vital, like a lifeline for Ukraine nowadays" the Polish envoy to the United Nations Krzysztof Szczerski told Radio Poland. The Polish Ambassador to the United Nations Krzysztof Szczerski.Radio Poland/Danuta Isler More than 500 days
The NATO alliance has announced it will step up patrols in the Black Sea region to counter Russia’s threats to civilian ships and its attacks on Ukraine’s ports. Photo:防衛省, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The decision was made at a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday, Polish state news agency PAP reported. The
British media are commending Poland for its support for Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, for welcoming Ukrainian refugees and for its fast-growing economy, according to a UK expert. Photo:Mattsjc, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Prof. Aleks Szczerbiak, a political scientist at the University of Sussex, made the assessment in an interview with the Polish
A spokesman for the US State Department has said that America “will defend every inch of NATO territory” after the Belarusian president suggested that the Wagner Group mercenaries stationed in his country wanted to make an “excursion” to the Polish cities Warsaw and Rzeszów. The headquarters of the US State Department in Washington, DC.AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA
