Vietnam Extradites Belarus Opposition Figure Who Fought For Ukraine Back To Minsk KYIV — The White House said it will provide Ukraine with anti-personnel mines to help it fend off Russia’s battlefield advances, which are gaining momentum in the east of the country, despite widespread opposition to such weapons by international rights groups. U.S. Defense … Read more
NATO’s Arctic Exercises: Finland Hosts Artillery Drills Near Russian Border Thousands of NATO troops are training with artillery in Finland just 100 kilometers from the Russian border. Soldiers from more than 20 nations are deployed in one of the largest drills in the organization’s recent history. RFE/RL’s Olena Abramovych reports from Rovajarvi as Finland hosts … Read more
Dutch Deliver Final 2 F-16 Jets, As Germany, U.S. Set New Ukraine Aid Packages The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on November 19 that Ukraine used six U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles in its attack on the Bryansk region overnight, claiming Russian forces managed to shoot down five of the missiles and damage one. According … Read more
Ukraine Sentences Russian Actor Mashkov In Absentia For Supporting War The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on November 19 that Ukraine used six U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles in its attack on the Bryansk region overnight, claiming Russian forces managed to shoot down five of the missiles and damage one. According to the ministry, fragments … Read more
Scholz Blasts Soft G20 Statement On Russia But Reiterates Stand On Long-Range Missiles TBILISI — Georgian anti-government protesters resumed their rallies at several points in Tbilisi in the evening on November 19 hours following a violent dispersal by security forces of a tent city they had set up in the Caucasus nation’s capital. Protesters arrived … Read more
Europeans Probe Baltic Cable Damage As Suspicions Turn Toward Russia The Kremlin has accused U.S. President Joe Biden of seeking to escalate the conflict in Ukraine by lifting restrictions on long-range weapons, while the U.S. leader urged G20 states to support Ukraine’s sovereignty. The remarks on November 18 come a day after multiple media reports … Read more
‘No More Emotions’: Frontline Ukrainian Soldiers Reflect On 1,000 Days Of War As their country marks 1,000 days of war, Ukrainian soldiers on the front line spoke with Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko about the ongoing conflict with Russia. Dmytro, a Ukrainian soldier who has been fighting since Moscow’s 2022 invasion, said when the war … Read more
How Russian Forces Hunted Down A Ukrainian Shopkeeper In Bucha Bloodbath This is the exclusive story of a Ukrainian shopkeeper turned territorial defense volunteer whose body was found, with his hands bound and a bullet wound in his head, at the site of an abandoned Russian headquarters in Bucha. Oleksiy Pobihay was among hundreds of … Read more
Putin Signs New Doctrine Widening Rules On Nuclear Weapons Use The Kremlin has accused U.S. President Joe Biden of seeking to escalate the conflict in Ukraine by lifting restrictions on long-range weapons, while the U.S. leader urged G20 states to support Ukraine’s sovereignty. The remarks on November 18 come a day after multiple media reports … Read more
1,000 Days Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine: Civilian Casualties Mount, Kyiv Strikes Back The Kremlin has accused U.S. President Joe Biden of seeking to escalate the conflict in Ukraine by lifting restrictions on long-range weapons, while the U.S. leader urged G20 states to support Ukraine’s sovereignty. The remarks on November 18 come a day after … Read more