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Wednesday, 31 January 2024 04:37
What to know after Day 706 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russia has destroyed large share of Ukraine’s German tanks – media Ukraine’s military has lost a substantial proportion of its Leopard 2 battle tanks donated by foreign states, with more than a quarter destroyed by Russian troops and the rest damaged beyond Kiev’s capacity to repair them, according to Foreign Affairs magazine. While Western media reports touted the German-made tank as a game-changer after Berlin authorized the transfers last year, Kiev has since discovered they are “hardly invulnerable superweapons,” the outlet reported on Monday. “Of the fewer than 100 Leopard 2s in Ukrainian service, at least 26 have…
Tuesday, 30 January 2024 04:51
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 116
Israel military operation destroys a Gaza cemetery. Israel says Hamas used the site to hide a tunnel The Islamic cemetery in southern Gaza was demolished, graves excised from the earth. A skull with no teeth rested atop the sandy, churned rubble. The neighborhood of Bani Suheila in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, which soldiers showed foreign journalists Saturday, was obliterated, transformed by the military’s search for underground Hamas tunnels. An Associated Press journalist saw a destroyed mosque and — where the cemetery had once been – a 140-meter-(yard)-wide pit that gave way to what the army called a…
Tuesday, 30 January 2024 04:50
What to know after Day 705 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian shelling kills four in northern Ukraine, one in devastated Avdiivka Russian shelling in northern Ukraine killed four people in two villages in Sumy region near the Russian border, while a woman died in a fresh assault on the devastated eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, local officials said. The local administration in Sumy region said three people died in mortar fire in the village of Znov-Novohorodske. A fourth was killed in another village to the southeast. Reuters could not verify the reports, but officials in Sumy region report daily attacks from Russian forces. In Avdiivka, a Ukrainian-held town…
Monday, 29 January 2024 04:36
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 115
Israel notes 'significant gaps' after cease-fire talks with US, Qatar, Egypt but says constructive Israel said “significant gaps” remain after cease-fire talks Sunday with the United States, Qatar and Egypt but called them constructive and said they would continue in the week ahead, a tentative sign of progress on a potential agreement that could see Israel pause military operations against Hamas in exchange for the release of remaining hostages. The U.S. announced its first military deaths in the region since the war began and blamed Iran-backed militants for the drone strike in Jordan that killed three American service members amid…
Monday, 29 January 2024 04:35
What to know after Day 704 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia's drones, missiles target Ukraine's critical infrastructure, Ukraine says Russia launched drone and missile attacks targeting civilian and critical infrastructure across wide areas of Ukraine, Kyiv's Air Force said on Sunday. Preliminary information did not show any casualties in the attacks, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app. Russia and Ukraine have increased their air attacks on each other's territory in recent months, targeting critical military, energy and transport infrastructure. The air force said Russia attacked the central Poltava region with two ballistic missiles fired from the Iskander ballistic missile system, and three surface-to-air missiles over…
Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:40
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 114
Embattled UN agency warns its aid operation in Gaza is 'collapsing' over a wave of funding cuts The head of the main U.N. aid agency in the war-battered Gaza Strip warned late Saturday that its work is collapsing after nine countries decided to cut funding over allegations that several agency employees had participated in the deadly Hamas attack against Israel four months ago. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said he was shocked such decisions were taken as “famine looms” in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. “Palestinians in Gaza did not need this additional collective punishment,” he…
Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:39
What to know after Day 703 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE US to change strategy on Ukraine – WaPo The US is working on a new strategy for Ukraine that would mark a departure from the failed forward push of 2023 and instead focus on frontline defense, the Washington Post has reported. The supposed adjustments come in response to Kiev’s failed counteroffensive last year, the newspaper added. In an article on Friday, the newspaper quoted a senior White House official explaining that “it will be difficult for [Ukrainian forces] to try to mount the same kind of major push on all fronts that they tried to do last year.”…
Saturday, 27 January 2024 04:45
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 113
Top UN court orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of ordering cease-fire The United Nations’ top court on Friday ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in Gaza, but the panel stopped short of ordering Jerusalem to end the military offensive that has laid waste to the Palestinian enclave. In a ruling that will keep Israel under the legal lens for years to come, the court offered little other comfort to Israeli leaders in a genocide case brought by South Africa that goes to the core of…
Saturday, 27 January 2024 04:44
What to know after Day 702 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine committed ‘genocide’ in Donbass – Putin Kiev’s actions in Donbass between 2014 and 2022 were nothing short of “genocide,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. The post-Maidan coup authorities in Ukraine were determined to “physically” get rid of anyone who still supported the development of good relations with Moscow, he added. Russia cited the need to protect the people of Donbass from continued persecution by Kiev as one of the major reasons it launched its military operation in February 2022. In the wake of the 2014 Maidan coup, two former Ukrainian territories with predominantly Russian-speaking populations…
Friday, 26 January 2024 04:31
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 112
Israel vows to fight Hamas all the way to Gaza's southern border. That's fueling tension with Egypt Israel faces a growing risk of damaging its peace with neighboring Egypt as its military pushes the offensive against Hamas further south in the Gaza Strip. Already, the two sides are in a dispute over a narrow strip of land between Egypt and Gaza. Israeli leaders say that to complete their destruction of Hamas, they must eventually widen their offensive to Gaza’s southernmost town, Rafah, and take control of the Philadelphi Corridor, a tiny buffer zone on the border with Egypt that is…
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Friday, 26 January 2024 04:30
What to know after Day 701 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Kiev ‘deliberately’ sabotaged prisoner swap – Moscow Ukrainian troops have shot down a Russian military plane carrying Ukrainian soldiers in order to derail an upcoming prisoner swap, Moscow’s envoy told the UN Security Council on Thursday. The Il-76 cargo aircraft crashed in Russia’s border region of Belgorod on Wednesday morning, killing everyone on board. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the plane was transporting 65 Ukrainian POWs slated for exchange that was to take place later that day. “All currently available data points to a deliberate, premeditated crime,” said Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s deputy representative to the UN. “The…
Thursday, 25 January 2024 04:47
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 111
Israel denies attack on UN refuge in Gaza that drew rebuke from Washington The United Nations said on Wednesday that Israeli tanks struck a huge U.N. compound in Gaza sheltering displaced Palestinians, causing "mass casualties", but Israel denied its forces were responsible and suggested Hamas may have launched the shelling. The attack, which the U.N. said hit a vocational training centre housing 30,000 displaced people in Khan Younis, southern Gaza's main city, prompted rare outright condemnation from the United States. "Mass casualties have taken place, some buildings are ablaze and there are reports of deaths. Many people are trying to…
Thursday, 25 January 2024 04:47
What to know after Day 700 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia accuses Ukraine of killing 65 of its own PoWs by shooting down plane Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of 74 people. Ukraine called for full clarification of the circumstances of the incident and did not directly confirm it had shot down the plane. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his evening address said: "It is clear that the Russians are playing with the lives of Ukrainian…
Wednesday, 24 January 2024 04:45
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 110
21 Israeli troops are killed in the deadliest attack on the military since the Gaza offensive began Palestinian militants carried out the deadliest single attack on Israeli forces in Gaza since the Hamas raid that triggered the war, killing 21 soldiers, the military said Tuesday, a significant setback that could add to mounting calls for a cease-fire. Hours later, the military announced that ground forces had encircled the southern city of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second largest, and thick, black smoke could be seen rising over the city as thousands of Palestinians fled south. Witnesses said Israeli tanks and troops had…