Section: War
Operational information on 12.00, 06.03.2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs: the eleventh day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues. The enemy does not give up its intentions and continues the offensive operation against Ukraine. Despite losses in personnel and equipment, the occupiers, with the support of the air...
Operational information on 06.00, 03.03.2022 regarding Russian invasion in Ukraine
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs: the eighth day of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues. The occupying forces, having failed in almost all areas in which they were advancing, resorted to tactics of night shelling of residential areas of large cities. The Armed Forces of...
Ukrainian “Foreign legion”: foreign volunteers and their reasons to fight in Donbas on Ukrainian side
UaPosition starts a new category, where will be published texts about events in Ukraine during last few years through the eyes of witnesses. The information can be sometimes unexpected, shows the subjective points of view of participants, however, it is more honest and truthful than politically correct official news made by politics and...
Russian artillery systems in Donbas start to shell at longer distance
Ukrainian military journalist and blogger Yuriy Butusov claims that Russian artillery systems used against the Ukrainian army in Donbas have begun shelling at longer distances. According to him, two instances of shelling of the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at a distance of about 20 km from the front line have recently been recorded. In...
War crimes suspect in Ukraine conflict extradited to Austria
Poland has extradited to Austria a man suspected of war crimes after he allegedly killed civilians and enemy troops after they had surrendered while fighting for Ukrainian forces, authorities said Tuesday, according to The Washington Post. The 25-year-old Austrian man allegedly carried out the killings last year against mostly ethnic Russian...
U.S. soldier who fought in Ukraine alongside Russian militants discharged from Army
An American militant who earlier sided with Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine to fight against government troops has been discharged from the military, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army said, according to The Washington Post. Earlier this month The Washington Post reported that Pfc. Guillaume Cuvelier, 29, had spent time with French...
France says worried by Ukraine crisis, demands guarantees for observers – Reuters
France`s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was ”extremely concerned” by the situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine and demanded guarantees that international observers be allowed to carry out their mission fully, according to Reuters. A ceasefire agreement signed in February 2015 in Minsk that aims to end the conflict between Ukrainian...
Macron says Minsk agreements only way to resolving Donbas crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to hold a new round of talks on Ukraine in the Normandy format and warns Russia of possible new sanctions, that`s according to his comments to the reporters during a joint press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Versailles on Monday. ”In terms of the Ukrainian situation, we`ve spoken at...
Nobody will fight for Crimea; sanctions seen as best option – NATO Parliamentary Assembly speaker
Speaker at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly`s 2017 Spring Session Soli Ozel says that nobody is going to fight for Russian-annexed Crimea, and sanctions against Russia remain the best option. See also: Russia deploys six nuclear warheads in Crimea ”All I`m saying is: there is a limited number of instruments that are available to begin with, and...
Almost 100 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donbas in 2017 – Ukraine`s defense ministry
Spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Andriy Petrenko has reported that 98 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in action in Donbas, the east of Ukraine, since the beginning of 2017, according to First Deputy Chairperson of Ukraine`s Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko. See also: Over 2,600 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donbas war –...