Category: Ukraine

Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuev, commander of the 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, has been killed in Ukraine.

A video has been released by the Russian Defence Ministry purporting to show the crew of the cruiser Moskva and her Captain believed to have been killed when the ship was hit by one or more Ukrainian anti-ship cruise missiles. We are skeptical of this.

Russian soldier Alexey Bychkov assigned to a unit operating in Ukraine, was arrested by Russian police due to him sexually abusing a baby. The videos could not be verified whether they were taken in Ukraine or before the invasion.

Russia accuses Ukraine of bombing Russian villages. They even go as far as explaining why Ukraine would do so, but is this a case of Russia projecting its own motives for bombing civilians onto Ukraine?

The Russian forces have reportedly attacked a Kyiv missile factory that focused on making and repairing Ukrainian missiles, which include anti-ship missiles, in an apparent retaliation for sinking the Moskva.

Russia has announced that the captain of the cruiser Moskva was killed. There is a conspicuous absence of any reassuring information from the Kremlin to the Russian public that the crew was saved. It is likely that as many as 450 Russian sailors were lost with the ship along with as yet unknown members of the staff of the Black Sea Fleet that may have been aboard as well.

Rheinmetall’s chief executive Armin Papperger expressed that the company was ready to provide 50 Leopard 1 tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces if the German government would approve the transfer.

The recent news of the Moskva allegedly being sunk by the Ukrainians has been the subject of jokes and trolls on the internet.

Ukrainian officials had discovered that the Russian forces booby-trapped dead bodies with explosives and land mines before they left the areas they occupied.

A former Russian lawmaker, Ilya Ponomarev, has taken up arms and is currently fighting with Ukrainian Forces to fight his homeland because he want “to defend humanity and Europe.

Russia claims that 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in Mariupol but Ukraine insists that they are still fighting.

Yesterday the Russian Guided Missile Cruiser Moskva was struck by one or two Neptune anti-ship missiles fired by Ukraine. Here is what we know and how we think it happened.