This Is Beirut, 20/08 19:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ukraine's parliament voted Tuesday to ban the Russian-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a move Kyiv says strengthens its independence as the country cuts ties with institutions it considers aligned with Moscow. Kyiv has been trying to curb spiritual links with Russia for years—a process accelerated by Moscow's 2022 invasion, which the powerful ...
This Is Beirut, 18/08 10:23 - Reading : less than a minute
Ukrainian forces said they thwarted a Russian missile attack on the capital, Kyiv, where air raid sirens sounded before dawn on Sunday. "This is the third ballistic missile attack on the capital in August, with a clear interval of six days between each attack," the Kyiv City Military Administration posted on Telegram after the early morning ...
This Is Beirut, 17/08 14:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ukraine claimed on Friday to be continuing its unprecedented advance into Russia's Kursk region, saying it wanted to force Russia into “fair” negotiations after nearly two and a half years of a large-scale invasion of its territory by Moscow. The Russian army, for its part, is maintaining its pressure further south, in Ukraine's Donbas ...
This Is Beirut, 15/08 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Ukrainian troops had "advanced well" in Russia's Kursk region, as Kyiv's biggest cross-border attack stretched into a second week. The Ukrainian Army entered the Kursk region on August 6, capturing dozens of settlements in the biggest offensive by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War ...
This Is Beirut, 14/08 11:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday his troops were "moving further" into Russia, as Kyiv's biggest ever cross-border attack stretched into a second week. The Ukrainian army entered Russia's Kursk region on August 6, capturing dozens of settlements in the biggest offensive by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War ...
This Is Beirut, 11/08 16:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Thousands of Ukrainian troops are taking part in a major incursion into Russian territory, aiming to destabilize Russia by showing up its weaknesses, a top Ukrainian official has told AFP. "We are on the offensive. The aim is to stretch the positions of the enemy, to inflict maximum losses and to destabilize the situation in Russia as they are ...
This Is Beirut, 10/08 10:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Moscow on Saturday launched a "counter-terror operation" in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv's biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict. Ukrainian units stormed across the border into Russia's western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock attack and have advanced several kilometers, according to ...
This Is Beirut, 09/08 11:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine pressed on with a major cross-border incursion into Russia, where state media and local officials on Friday reported a fire at a military airfield and "massive" drone attacks hundreds of kilometers from the border. The Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region over the past few days appears to be the most significant attack on Russian soil ...
This Is Beirut, 23/07 13:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine's foreign minister was in China Tuesday for talks on how officials there might help end the war with Russia, whose ties with Beijing have grown stronger since the conflict began. China presents itself as a neutral party in the war and says it is not sending lethal assistance to either side, unlike the United States and other Western ...
This Is Beirut, 22/07 14:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A barrage of drones launched by Ukraine overnight sparked a blaze at an oil refinery in southern Russia, in Kyiv's latest aerial strike, officials in Ukraine and Russia said Monday. Regional authorities in the Russian Black Sea town of Tuapse in the Krasnodar region said debris from one downed drone sparked a fire at an oil refinery. Kyiv and ...
This Is Beirut, 18/07 10:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia downed 33 Ukrainian aerial drones overnight over Crimea and 10 naval drones that were heading for the peninsula, Moscow's defense ministry said Thursday. "Air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 33 aerial drones over... Crimea," the ministry said in a Telegram post, adding that forces "in the Black Sea destroyed 10 naval ...
This Is Beirut, 17/07 18:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia and Ukraine have released a total of 190 captured soldiers in the latest prisoner exchange between the two countries, officials in Moscow and Kyiv announced on Wednesday. Thousands of POWs have been freed in more than 50 individual exchanges throughout the war – an area where the two sides have been able to strike rare agreements since ...