Category: Russia

Meet the Ukrainian ‘Unicorn’ volunteer fighters, Oleksandr Zhygan and Antonina Romanova, who are LGBTQ+ fighters that are currently fighting for their country.

In this collaboration between Newsweek and SOFREP we attempt to quell some of the speculation out there that Putin has a single button that he can push to unilaterally launch a nuclear strike against the West. It’s really not that simple

Not much has been said about Ukrainian casualties and their equipment losses. Today, we try to look at both sides of the story going into the 100th day of the war.

“A f*cking rocket should fly into the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s Parliament] in Kyiv. That’s it, f*ck it. Why didn’t [a rocket] fucking fly? I don’t f*cking get it, you’re f*cked, Putin—motherf*cker!” Russian colonels said.

A Russian soldier, Mikhail Romanov, is now being charged with murdering a man and subsequently raping the man’s wife in what is the first rape case of the Russo-Ukrainian war. 

Lieutenant Colonel Zaur Dimayev is the 49th Russian colonel to be taken out in Ukraine. He was hit by Ukrainian artillery while riding in a military vehicle in Luhansk.

Ukrainian forces have launched their counteroffensive in the Southern regions of their country with the goal of reclaiming the port city of Kherson.

An intercepted call posted by Ukraine’s Security Services revealed that a Russian unit had a stand-off with a Russian general ordering them to fight. The Russian soldiers almost blew up the general in the heated argument, according to the call.

Germany will now supply Ukraine with its IRIS-T air defense system to help Ukraine repel constant Russian shelling and Russian fighter jets in its fight to secure the Donbas region from advancing Russian forces.

Ukraine wasted no time in manufacturing their own T-84 tanks that can definitely help them repel Russian attacks, especially with the fighting now getting heated in Luhansk.

President Biden stated that it would not send Ukraine any rocket systems that could reach the Russian mainland, prompting Russia to threaten the US with retaliation if it were to send rocket systems to Kyiv.

Soldiers from the Russian army are demanding monetary payments from Ukrainian residents for a chance to escape occupied territories, with charges ranging from $100 to as high as $1,350.