Ukraine

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have published a video claiming that they hit a Russian naval tugboat named the “Vasily Bekh” with two Harpoon missiles in the Black Sea on Friday.

Vladimir Putin has frequently invoked World War II and the denazification of the world as an excuse for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is with no small amount of hypocrisy that neo-Nazi groups are fighting in Ukraine in the name of Russia.

The Netherlands’ intelligence service has reported last Thursday that they caught a Russian spy named Sergey Cherkasov posing as a Brazilian national who was allegedly planning to infiltrate the International Criminal Court.

A rare Ukrainian S-300V1 was spotted in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, risking its top air defense system to foil Russian aircraft and missiles in the vicinity.

The Russian forces issued an ultimatum to the Ukrainian forces in the Azot Chemical Plant and Severodonetsk to surrender. To the surprise of no one, Ukraine refused this ultimatum and kept fighting.

President Biden has announced that the US will be giving another $1 billion in military aid for Ukraine amidst heavy Russian shelling in the Donbas region.

The fate of two former US servicemen who volunteered to fight in Ukraine is unknown at this time. Ukraine can not find their remains after a fierce battle and Russia has not officially confirmed that they have been captured.

Russian authorities have put investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov on the country’s federal wanted list and frozen his bank accounts. Soldatov is one of Russia’s leading and remaining independent journalists, having intimate knowledge of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

The Ukrainian Government requested a ton more NATO-standard heavy weaponry such as multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), howitzers, and tanks to help their forces repel further Russian advances in Severodonetsk.

Amnesty International, the international, non-governmental human rights watchdog, has reported that hundreds of citizens are being killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv by the widespread use of cluster munitions and indiscriminate use of rockets.

Amid intensified fighting in Eastern Ukraine’s Severodonetsk, the Russians have gained some traction in invading the city by destroying the bridges connecting the city to western areas of Ukraine.

Has Putin gone mad? Russian former Prime Minister turned Putin-critic Mikhail Kasyanov has warned that the Baltic countries are next on Putin’s invasion list if Ukraine loses its war against the Kremlin.