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Russia’s veteran Foreign Minister was conspicuous by his absence at an important Kremlin meeting, prompting feverish speculation as to his whereabouts. Fears of a ruthless Putin purge have surged following the mysterious deaths of a number of prominent officials and businessmen over the past year. Several have inexplicably committed “suicide” by jumping from windows or have been found shot or …

Vladimir Putin will have to sacrifice between 500,000 and one million men if he wants to seize all of the Donbas region of Ukraine, according to a top military analyst. Professor Michael Clarke believes Russia has already suffered more than one million casualties – that is, dead and seriously injured – since the war began in February 2022. Russia currently …

Russia’s army is reported to be making “rapid progress” in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, according to a Ukrainian military blogger. Ukraine is defending attacks on multiple fronts from Putin’s army, fighting in several regions along a frontline estimated to be over 1,000 kilometres long. Some of the fiercest battles have been fought in the Donetsk region, which along with …

As many as 1,000 Russian Shahed drones and more than 1,500 warheads worth as much as £60 million have been destroyed in a massive cruise missile and drone strike by Ukrainian forces, reports have claimed. Huge explosions rocked the area around the disused Russian-occupied Donetsk airport, northwest of Donetsk, Ukraine, as an ammunition depot was “completely destroyed”. A fuel depot …

Promises of passports and lucrative monthly salaries of £2,100 are drawing hundreds of young Iraqis into Moscow’s ranks to fight its war against Ukraine. Currently, one in three young Iraqis is unemployed and corruption is rampant, so the promise of these wages – more than four times the salary of an Iraqi soldier – has become irresistible to many. In …

A Russian general has launched a blistering attack on Vladimir Putin, saying the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is an unmitigated disaster. Leonid Ivashov is a well-known military figure and public official who served as the former President of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems. The retired colonel general has been an outspoken critic of Putin’s war in Ukraine, accusing the Russian …

Russia has threatened to unleash its deadly nuclear torpedo on the UK, as tensions between London and Moscow continue to rise. The UK has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine‘s military since the beginning of Vladimir Putin‘s full-scale invasion in February 2022. It has provided Kyiv’s army with an array of weapons to help Ukraine’s troops repel Russia‘s vicious and …

Ryazan is hardly alone. Lt. Gen. Vasyl Maliuk, head of the Ukrainian Security Service, said last week that Ukraine has carried out more than 160 successful attacks on Russian refineries and other energy targets this year; an Open Source Centre investigation identified more than 90 strikes between Aug. 2 and Oct. 14. In the last week alone, Ukraine has struck …

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — In the summer of 2008, as Russian tanks rolled toward the borders of Georgia, the battle had already begun—shaped decisively by large-scale cyberattacks and cognitive warfare. Weeks before the first shots, cyberspace erupted with coordinated attacks crippling Georgian government and media websites, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and defacements. Simultaneously, state-controlled and aligned media saturated both domestic and …

یوکرین کے دارالحکومت کیف پر روسی ڈرونز اور میزائل حملوں کے نتیجے میں پورا شہر تاریکی میں ڈوب گیا، زاپوریژیا کے فرنٹ لائن علاقے میں تقریباً 60,000 لوگ بجلی سے محروم ہوگئے۔ سردیوں کے قریب آتے ہی روس نے یوکرین کی بجلی کی ترسیل کی لائنوں پر میزائل اور ڈرون حملے بڑھا دیے ہیں، جس سے کئی علاقوں میں لوڈشیڈنگ …