Category: Russia

Ukraine has asked the United States for more emergency assistance in the form of $2 billion worth of economic aid per month.

The United Kingdom is supplying Ukraine with Brimstone precision-guided missiles to help repel the Russian advance in the Donbas region, British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey confirmed.

The Russian media has reported that their troops and government have ‘evacuated’ a total of 1,021,871 Ukrainians to Russia, including 187,636 children since the start of the invasion. Ukrainians were reportedly forced to go to Russia and were beaten in the process.

Attacks reportedly hit radio antennas and the Ministry of State Security building in Tiraspol, in Moldova’s Transnistria, a Russian-backed separatist region.

Australia has announced that it will be delivering six units of M777 155mm lightweight towed howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine. 

President Biden sent Congress a $33 billion assistance request to provide additional aid for Ukraine. The funds are intended to supply the country with more weapons, and humanitarian and economic support as the fighting enters its third month.

In an attempt to bolster its naval protection, the Russian Navy has deployed trained military dolphins at its Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol to protect its fleet from an underwater attack.

After being held in a Russian prison for three years, Russia finally frees former US Marine Trevor Reed in exchange for a Russian drug trafficker who had been serving a 20-year federal sentence in the US.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned the West not to aggravate and underestimate the risks of a nuclear war that could escalate to World War III.

“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

Unbeknownst to many, there was a covert network of Belarusian saboteurs comprised of hackers, rail workers, and security force defectors who cut off the Russian forces’ supplies going to the frontlines.

In a major policy shift, Germany has announced that it will be supplying Ukraine with 50 Gepard anti-aircraft tanks. However, the Swiss Government has blocked the transfer of the Gepard’s 35mm ammunition.