Vladimir Putin Russia Ukraine War

The United States defence department has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “brutality” and “depravity” in his country's invasion of Ukraine.

“The situation in the Kharkiv region is difficult. Constant cruel bombardments, constant Russian strikes on infrastructure and residential areas state that Russia wants to make this territory uninhabited …” The Ukrainian president expressed hope his soldiers will stand their ground.

The Kremlin and the West appear to have embraced a broader clash over Ukraine, one that extends far beyond the grounds of the Donbas.

Nor is Putin likely to accept any demand to return it. Whether or not threats to use nuclear weapons or to invade new territories are realistic, they have proliferated just as Russia’s incursion into Ukraine has stagnated. At least three explosions were reported in the territory this week. “They said ‘that’s not our approach to this,’” Hamilton said. “Putin has learned over time that high-level threats really intimidate people.” He said the best-case scenario might involve a cease-fire and a “protracted line of control” with troops from both countries massed on both sides for years. “We’re in a different phase of the war now that we were in late February to early April, which was Russia thinking it was going to win the war really quickly and so the West sent just whatever it could whenever it could,” Alberque said. Nor are nuclear weapons the only menace that Moscow has wielded in the Ukraine context in recent days. The request followed remarks by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin this week that initially caused some disquiet among European allies. Rose Gottemoeller, former NATO deputy secretary general and a former U.S. arms control negotiator who served under both the Clinton and Obama administrations, said that the threat of a Russian nuclear conflict with the West had grown steadily under Putin. Speaking to reporters after a visit to Kyiv, Austin said the U.S. wanted to see Russia “weakened to the extent that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.” William Alberque, director of strategy, technology and arms control at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank, said the move showed how, for Russia, “all other nonmilitary instruments of power are now in play.”

More than one million Ukrainians have been 'evacuated' to Russia since the start of the invasion, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed.

He said: "Over the past years, the United States and its allies have done nothing to stop the intra-Ukrainian conflict... When asked what would happen if Russia start winning in eastern Ukraine, Sir Alex said: "It's clear that that is the Russian plan. In an interview with AP, Yuliia Fedusiuk, 29, the wife of Arseniy Fedusiuk, a member of the Azov regiment, said: "The lives of soldiers matter too. "On the sixth day, the electricity and the water were cut off... Speaking at a press briefing, Mr Kirby appeared to get emotional talking about the conflict, and said: "It’s hard to square his… That is obviously the plan. As former chancellor, Schroeder is entitled to several offices in the German parliament and a budget for staff. “The occupiers ‘liberated’ Mariupol from its historical and cultural heritage. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Alex said: "Putin does not have a reverse gear, he never has. Skabeyeva addresses the camera with relish: “The Ukrainians are crumbling in front of us! "The victims' hands were tied, cloths were covering their eyes and some were gagged. In a studio with enormous screens showing images of purportedly fallen Ukrainian soldiers, guests stand in a circle.

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S allies have encouraged the Russian President to attack the UK in retaliation for its support of Ukraine.

The movement is open across the bridge to Mukhino." I'll be bringing you all the latest developments on the conflict in Ukraine in the next eight hours. He said in a briefing: "We are seeing signs that Russia is also building up its grouping in the eastern operating zone... \u26a1\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f Twenty wounded civilians were able to evacuate from the territory of\u2014 Alexander Khrebet/\u041e\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440 \u0425\u0440\u0435\u0431\u0435\u0442 (@AlexKhrebet) #Azovstalsteel plant in #Mariupol. Women and children. The prime minister offered the UK's continued economic and humanitarian support." It should not be underestimated.” Please feel free to get in touch with me as I work if you have a story or tips to share! "These are women and children. "All this is done under the pretext of ‘fighting the invasion’, but, in fact, the US and the EU intend to fight Russia ‘to the last Ukrainian’, and they are absolutely indifferent to the fate of Ukraine as an independent subject of international relations.” The French President, who was re-elected for a second term in office last Sunday, also said that "at the request of the Ukrainian authorities, the mission of French experts contributing to the collection of evidence to fight against impunity and allow the work of international justice on crimes committed in the context of Russian aggression, will continue". The city council said on its Telegram account: "There is hope for the evacuation of Mariupol residents to territory controlled by Ukraine." A Downing Street spokesperson said: "President Zelensky updated on the fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine and ongoing siege of Mariupol. He set out the equipment needed for the defence of Ukraine.

Putin has sought to paint a rosy picture of Russia's economic outlook. He's declared that Western sanctions have failed.

“The beginning of the end of Putin started some time ago. The ex-Russian banker, who’s been accused of embezzlement by the Russian government, has said the deterioration of his relationship with Putin made him fear for his life, per BBC News. “In one day, they destroyed what was built over many years. I do believe that this speeds up his demise.” Meanwhile, Russia’s economy has been left reeling from the slew of sanctions imposed on it by countries across the globe. Major companies have left Russia and inflation is skyrocketing.

Ukrainian troops raised the flag above the town of Ruska Lozova, north of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city. Ukraine said Russian troops were ...

A group led by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly on Friday entered exclusive talks to acquire Chelsea from Abramovich for over $3 billion, potentially setting up the richest ever acquisition of a sports team. Few takeovers in the history of English soccer have been more complicated than the forced sale of Chelsea Football Club. Pressed onto the market after its billionaire owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the U.K. government for his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the team immediately drew interest from investors around the world, all hoping to leap on of soccer’s glitziest brands. But for all the twists of government involvement, a military conflict in Ukraine, and a protracted bidding war, the process appears to be heading for what has become the most familiar Premier League outcome: a marquee club landing under American control.

The U.K. said that “many of these units are likely suffering from weakened morale.” Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that NATO is ...

The war is evil," he said during his visit to Ukraine, where he also met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. However, Russian state TV nightly has had guests suggest that Moscow use nuclear weapons in the conflict. Lavrov also said that negotiations continue between Russia and Ukraine "almost every day." An estimated 2,000 Ukrainian defenders and 1,000 civilians are holed up in the plant's vast underground network of bunkers, which are able to withstand airstrikes. The bank added that it was prepared to step in further to prevent inflation from spiking. "The lives of soldiers matter too. But the discussions as reported by the U.N. concerned civilians, not combatants. Lavrov — who has been sanctioned by the U.S., U.K. and Europe for his role in the war — reportedly said his country's "special operation" in Ukraine is "a response to what NATO was doing in Ukraine to prepare this country for a very aggressive posture against the Russian Federation." Lavrov said that figure included more than 300 Chinese civilians. All 27 member states must back the measure to be adopted. France has already sent 615 tons of equipment and aid to Ukraine, including generators for hospitals, ambulances and food. Here is a look at some of the devastation.

The Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine is founded on a false retelling of history. He's not the only strongman revising the past.

“Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth,” Winston is told in Orwell’s novel. The mayor of the Ukrainian town of Melitopol has recounted how, in March, he was abducted by Russian troops who told him they had come to “free Ukraine from Nazis.” Russian soldiers scrawled the words for the children on a missile that hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk—a grim irony, as that very strike killed children among the many evacuees who were waiting for a train. The impulse to rewrite history and appeal to glorious myths to rally popular support is not limited to autocrats. The Kim family’s fiction dominates daily life in North Korea. On a reporting trip there in 2016, I saw the enormous “Arch of Triumph” built in the heart of the capital, which is engraved with the date “1945” to commemorate the first Kim’s purported victory over Japan. His grandson’s top officials drive around in a fleet of gleaming black Mercedes with the prefix “727” on their license plates to mark the supposed victory over the U.S. on July 27, 1953, the date the Korean War armistice was signed. “How can you control memory?” One might well ask the same question of Putin, Xi, and Kim and their own efforts to control the past. Putin quotes from the Bible and invokes the Great Patriotic War to underline the righteousness of his cause as he insists that he is fighting “ for a world without Nazism.” There is evidence that this approach is working. He calls the Ukrainian leadership “fascists” to remind his compatriots of the enemy they faced, insisting that they are confronting a resurgent menace. Though China’s version of history is at least credible, if tailored to serve the Communist Party’s needs, across the border in North Korea, the Kim regime relies on an absurd fiction and outright lies. Instead, Putin has sealed off the official version of history from scrutiny, passing new laws that make it a criminal offense to challenge the authorities’ account or to question the true scale of Soviet heroism. Listening to Putin’s speech on the morning of his invasion, when he declared that he was saving innocents from “genocide” and compared his actions to the heroic struggle Russians waged during World War II, my initial response was disbelief. “Who controls the past controls the future,” he responds obediently. The Russian leader’s invasion of Ukraine is founded on a false retelling of history.

Analysts say both sides appear ready to dig in for a protracted conflict that is showing increasing signs of spilling beyond the battlefield.

"The building of one of Kharkiv's hospitals was damaged," the service said in a Telegram post. "As a result of the shelling, the concrete structures and window frames of the technical floor of the hospital were partially destroyed. "The enemy is shelling all the free cities of the region, trying to break through in three directions — Rubizhne, Popasna, Hirske community," Haidi said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has insisted since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24 that sanctions needed to be strengthened and could not be part of negotiations. “There are no new people coming to join the volunteers, only leaving,” she said. There are traces of torture on the corpses, as well as gunshot wounds to various parts of the body." The country and Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which contains six of Ukraine’s nuclear reactors, has been under Russian control since March 4. In March, before the Russians took control of it, the world watched as the nuclear plant came under fire by the Kremlin’s forces, though it sustained limited damage. Most of the gas stations NBC News passed on the nearly 300-mile journey from Kyiv to Odesa on Saturday all flashed zero next to the various types of gas, indicating that they had nothing to offer. The police said the "victims’ hands were tied, cloth was wrapped around their faces to close their eyes, and some men had gags in their mouths. About 20 mostly elderly people boarded a minivan amid the sounds of outgoing artillery and explosions in the distance. " In any dialogue, and even more so in a strategic dialogue, it is necessary, at a minimum, to have an adequately tuned partner.

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy switched into Russian in his nightly video address to urge Russian soldiers not to fight in Ukraine ...

“We are stuck because of their desire to play games all the time,” Lavrov said. “(We have) explained … what is the mechanism for them to monitor how the humanitarian corridors are announced.” “The constant brutal bombardments, the constant Russian strikes on infrastructure and residential areas show that Russia wants to empty this territory of all people. However, Russian state TV nightly has had guests who suggest that Moscow use nuclear weapons in the conflict. France has been coy about its contribution in defensive weapons, but Macron recently mentioned Milan anti-tank missiles and a delivery of truck-mounted Caesar cannons among “consequential equipment.” They seek shelter in their basements whenever the shelling starts. About 20 mostly elderly people boarded a minivan amid the sounds of outgoing artillery and explosions in the distance. The cost for a five-year credit default swap on Russian debt was $5.84 million to protect $10 million in debt. “We know that (the buses) reached the town and then came under fire from an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group,” Khanatov said. It said the reconstruction of further transmission lines in and around Kyiv remains underway. The United Nations has been attempting to broker an evacuation in the port city where some 100,000 civilians remain. They don’t tell them about the new losses the generals expect,” Zelenskyy said late Saturday.

The Russian military launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Here's where the war currently stands.

Despite Russian shellings and attacks, Russian troops "did not secure any gains" in eastern Ukraine on the 28th, the institute wrote. Russia invaded Ukraine from multiple directions. Ukraine is situated in eastern Europe. The initial Russian attack came from the South, in Crimea, from the East, in Russia, and from the North, in Russia and Belarus. In 2014, pro-Russian separatists took control of parts of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine after Russian forces invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula. The general line of control had, prior to the invasion, stood here. The invaders have substantial troop presences in the east and south, but Ukrainian forces successfully repelled Russian attacks both near the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the area west of Izyum on April 28. Russian forces have had little recent success in gaining more territory in eastern Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

The Russia-Ukraine war entered day 67 on Sunday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying that "Ukraine will be free". Ukrainian President has also said that 69% of ...

To enhance their offensive, Russian troops have also moved out from the north of Mariupol to advance on Ukrainian forces from the south still their progress has been "slow and uneven and definitely not decisive," the official said. While getting a full picture of the war in the east has been difficult due to the barrage of shelling and artillery strikes as the battle unfolds, the US official said the separatist forces have been able to make only "minor gains." Now, it is this equipment that the Russian occupiers are exporting to their territory...Instead of developing its medicine, Russia is robbing others." Thousands of Russian troops are heading this way in a move to cut off the Donbas. He added the Russian attempts to crawl further south and east have been strongly resisted by Ukrainian forces. The women said 600 of the soldiers are wounded with some suffering from gangrene. Russian forces are continuing their attacks on Ukraine's industrial heartland in the eastern Donbas region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, "Of course, the occupiers still have equipment in stock. Ukrainian Defence Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate on Saturday shared a list comprising the names of 226 Russian soldiers who committed war crimes in Zaporizhia & Mariupol. The list includes the names from the 291st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment. The Intelligence Directorate claims that these 226 Russian soldiers brutally killed and tortured civilians of Ukraine in the Zaporizhia and Mariupol regions. Situated in the east of Ukraine, Donbas comprises of Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), both of which have been controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists since 2014. Sharing a link where the names of the perpetrators were published, Ukraine Defence Ministry stated, "Remember! All war criminals against the civilian population of Ukraine will be prosecuted." It said the reconstruction of further transmission lines in and around Kyiv remains underway.

As Russian forces prepare for what Ukrainian officials say could be an "even bigger" offensive in the east, shelling continues to impact those living in the ...

There were dead people lying on the ground," she said. They don’t tell them about the new losses the generals expect,” Mr Zelenskyy said. Ukraine has not directly claimed responsibility for a spate of such incidents on Russian territory. By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller 'Was it worth it?... By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller