Ukraine has launched the first steps of its eagerly awaited counteroffensive, according to one of President Zelensky’s top advisers. Mykhailo Podolyak claimed the intensity of Ukraine’s counterattacks was already increasing, with Kyiv’s forces targeting in particular Russian supply lines and ammunition depots.
More than 30 women abducted by separatist rebels for protesting illegal taxes imposed on them were released, the government said Friday. The women were taken earlier this month from Babanki, a farming village in the Northwest Region, along the border with Nigeria.
Russian sources claimed the building of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in Belgorod was attacked on Monday this week (May 22). SOTA, a Russian Telegram channel and Readovka, a Russian pro-Kremlin news outlet, on Telegram both claimed explosives were
Fighters from the ‘Freedom of Russia Legion’ and ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’ have taken credit for a daring cross-border raid into Russia, with the Ukrainian-allied unit claiming to have seized the settlement of Kozinka from the Russian army. Earlier, videos had emerged on
The remains of at least 20 people were found buried in a mass grave in an area used to cultivate cacao in Ndoma village in Congo’s North Kivu province this weekend, according to local authorities and a military spokesperson. A team of
Maoist insurgents detonated an explosive device Wednesday in a forested area in central India, killing 10 police officers and the driver of their vehicle, a state government minister said. T.S. Singh Deo, health minister of Chhattisgarh state, said the insurgents targeted policemen
Tory MPs have warned the Lords not to block the “best chance yet to stop the boats”. The Home Secretary will be given powers to disregard injunctions from the European Court of Human Rights – called Rule 39 orders – under new
Air strikes by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s northwest on Thursday killed at least eight civilians, including two children, according to members of a rebel ethnic minority group and independent media reports. The attack on Khuafo village, just north
At least 17 people were killed by rebels in eastern Congo, local authorities said on Monday. The people were abducted while driving on a road and then killed by the CODECO militia group in Djugu territory in Ituri province over the weekend,
Tory MPs have raised concerns that Downing Street may try to use Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s reselection problems to try to force her not to rebel over Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal. Ms Braverman’s Fareham seat in Hampshire is disappearing in the boundary