By Tom Balmforth ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) – The Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet has been forced to rebase nearly all its combat-ready warships from occupied Crimea to other locations, and its main naval hub is becoming ineffectual because of attacks by Kyiv, Ukraine’s navy chief said. Vice-Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa said Ukrainian missile and naval drone […]
Shrapnel from an intercepted US-made missile fired by Ukraine hit a beach packed with sunbathing tourists in occupied Crimea on Sunday. Russian officials said at least five people, including three children, had died of shrapnel wounds – and they expected the death toll to rise. A video shot by a tourist on the beach shows […]
Shrapnel from an intercepted US-made missile fired by Ukraine hit a beach packed with sunbathing tourists in occupied Crimea on Sunday. Russian officials said at least five people, including three children, had died of shrapnel wounds – and they expected the death toll to rise. A video shot by a tourist on the beach shows […]
Ukraine has intensified strikes on Russia’s air defenses in Crimea, per reports. The attacks could make Crimea untenable as a military staging ground, one US think tank said. But they’re not a silver bullet to end Russia’s occupation of the region, experts said. Ukraine’s sustained attacks against Russia’s air defenses could make occupied Crimea untenable […]
Russia is relying far more on overland routes in annexed eastern Ukraine to supply its military than on Crimea’s Kerch Bridge, which Ukraine has repeatedly targeted since the war began, new satellite images show. The bridge, which Russia built after annexing Crimea in 2014, is seeing almost “zero traffic” and may therefore no longer represent […]
Russian spies recorded a conversation involving top German military officers, WSJ reported. The officials were discussing plans to send Ukraine missiles that could destroy the Crimean bridge. That very purpose is one of the main reasons Germany has been reluctant to provide the missiles. Leaked audio obtained by Russian spies and later broadcast by the […]
Counterintelligence agents in Germany have sprung into action after one of Vladimir Putin’s top allies in the press published an audio recording on Friday that she claimed was a conversation between German generals plotting to blow up the Crimean Bridge. The 38-minute audio clip, first shared by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, circulated simultaneously in Russia’s […]
The Federal Ministry of Defence of Germany has initiated an investigation into whether the conversations of representatives of its air force – who, according to Russian propaganda, allegedly discussed blowing up the Crimean bridge with Taurus missiles – were intercepted. Source: German Defence Ministry, in a comment to DPA, European Pravda reports A German Defense […]
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has added four new elements to the list of National Non-Material Cultural Heritage of Ukraine. According to the order, the following were added to the list: traditions of the preparation and consumption of the Zozulia porridge (millet porridge with milk slow cooked in oven – ed.) […]
Moscow is actively recruiting so-called “military instructors” in occupied Ukrainian territories for subsequent deployment to Africa to expand its influence on the continent, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) reported via Telegram on Jan. 17. This “persistent recruitment” campaign is ongoing in occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea. Military reservists—air defense specialists, sailors, and others—are offered lengthy, […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A court on Tuesday sentenced a former senior officer in the National Guard to six years in a prison colony after convicting him of buying equipment unable to protect the bridge which links southern Russia to Crimea, the TASS state news agency reported. TASS said that Colonel Sergei Volkov had purchased two […]
Friedrich Merz, the head of Germany’s opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has once again called on the government to provide Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles, which could destroy the Russian-built Crimean bridge. Source: European Pravda with reference to Tagesschau Details: In an interview with Table Media, he said that these missiles could destroy the Kerch […]