Tag: Ukraine

News editor Marina Ovsyannikova was fined for breaking Russian law following her onscreen protest on the country’s most-watched evening news broadcast.

The Russian Army is a Uniformed Rabble, Not A Professional Army In November of 2001, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov announced plans for long-overdue reforms to the Russian Army.  The new army would be a scaled-down and and more professional army of armored forces who would be paid well, equipped well, and trained well.  This […]

Conscripts from the Russian-backed Donbas separatists were reportedly using Mosin-Nagant rifles first produced in 1891 to fend off the Ukrainians on the frontlines.

Hundreds of dead Ukrainian civilians were found to be allegedly tied up, executed, and burned by the Russian forces in Bucha. MI6 claimed that this was part of Russia’s invasion plan all along.

“He wants Ukraine, he wants the Baltic states. He wants control over Eastern Europe. He wants to shatter NATO, and he wants the United States out,” says NATO’s former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), Retired Four-star General Wesley Clark.

Forgive me if I wax nostalgic for a moment. As soon as I heard of Putin’s hinting at the possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and saw the corresponding massive spike in the sale of bunkers, the following ’80s song popped into my head: … Six o’clock, TV hour, don’t get caught in foreign […]

Aerorozvidka, a volunteer-led military unit of elite Ukrainian drone operators, took out portions of the 40-mile Russian convoy in the cover of the night, ultimately playing a vital role in saving Kyiv from complete encirclement.

Pbv-501s infantry fighting vehicles and Bushmaster armored vehicles are being sent to Ukraine. Talks of T-72 tanks being supplied to Kyiv are also in the discussion phase.

SOFREP is on Telegram, joining the ‘Information Terrorists’ plaguing Russia Given the news blackout in Russia on anything critical of the Putin regime and the difficulty in getting news into that country that doesn’t pass through the filters of state-controlled media like Sputnik, Russia Today(RT), and Pradva. Putin slammed a law through that makes it […]

Whether you say “zee” or “zed,” Vladimir Zelensky wants the letter Z banned from global usage immediately. Yes, he’s serious. A Big Ask That’s right, Ukraine is asking the world to criminalize the use of the letter Z when used as a symbol of support for Russian aggression against their country. The irony isn’t lost […]

The recent attack on a Russian oil storage facility could have far-reaching effects in this conflict. Some are claiming it is a false flag attack by Russia itself. We take a look at the evidence so far.

Russian troops have returned control of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday. According to Ukrainian sources familiar with the matter, their retreat occurred approximately one month after taking it over. However, heavy fighting continues in and around the capital of Kyiv and other fronts. […]