Thousands of Russians are waiving flags and banners at a rally in the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, where Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to speak, a day after he made a chilling threat about a “global war”. In the centre of the
Latvia has threatened to boycott next year’s Paris Olympics if Russian athletes are allowed to take part during the war in Ukraine and is calling on other countries to form a coalition to pressure international sports bodies. The Latvian Olympic Committee is
Vladimir Putin has been warned Russians have “no stomach for the fight” in the war with Ukraine, with a retired US Lieutenant General also destroying plans for another huge mobilisation of troops. Putin announced a mass-mobilisation of 300,000 troops in September. At
Fears of a second mass mobilisation grow as Russian lawmakers offer subtle hints that they are abandoning the Russian rule that exempted fathers of three or more children from mobilisation. For weeks, Ukraine has predicted Putin would call a further 500,000 conscripts
Vladimir Putin’s army is recklessly sending its troops to the slaughter in Ukraine, as it desperately attempts to make military gains on the battlefield. Fighting has been particularly fierce in the country’s eastern Donbas region, where Russian forces recently captured Soledar after
A former US Navy SEAL four-of-four who went AWOL in 2019 has been killed in heavy fighting in Ukraine. American defence sources confirmed the death of Daniel W. Swift, who they said was not fighting in an official capacity, yesterday. Mr Swift’s
Ukrainian snipers have released a video demonstrating how they have teamed up with rabbits to kill Russian soldiers. Ukrainian sharpshooters from Sniper group A of the Tsentral (Central) Special Forces unit are reported to have taken out two Russians using the covert
Russian soldiers have offered shocking accounts of a HIMARS strike on their barracks, in which the Kremlin admits 89 died, and which Ukraine says killed as many as 400. The attack, on a school complex in the city of Makiivka in the Donetsk region housing
Russians are trying to advance in Bakhmut by “effectively marching on corpses of their own”, Ukraine’s chief military officer General Valerii Zaluzhnyi has revealed. The situation in the region is pushing Vladimir Putin’s forces to the extreme. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of
Vladimir Putin faces furious calls from Moscow officials to be tried for treason after up to 400 of Russian soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian strike. The Russian dictator is under pressure as senior politicians and war commentators openly blasted the “stupid