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Russia again claims to have taken an eastern Ukrainian region. The real picture is very different
This week, for the third time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia claimed it fully occupied Ukraine’s Luhansk region.
Russia’s armed forces have taken control of the entire Luhansk region of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed Wednesday, but a Kyiv military official denied the claim as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared for talks with U.S. envoys trying to mediate an end to Moscow’s invasion.
Russia has lost 1,304,490 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on April 6.
While Ukraine holds out against Russia’s relentless assaults, it is also facing the scandal of millions avoiding military call-up and hundreds of thousands of soldiers absent without leave. World affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from Izyum,
Ukraine has kept up its attacks on Russian oil export and production infrastructure, hitting facilities in two regions, while widespread Russian drone attacks on Ukraine killed at least one civilian overnight and fighting persisted at the front,
Ukraine warns Russia is establishing long-range drone control stations in Belarus, intensifying the war and threatening NATO's eastern flank.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has also struck Russia’s oil ports in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea with more than 2,500 drones, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo told a news conference in Helsinki. “It is likely that Ukraine’s operations will continue,” he said.
U.S. and European officials have told The Associated Press that Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Mo
Zelensky has offered to share Ukraine’s battlefield expertise with the US and allies to develop countermeasures against Iranian attacks.
At least three people were killed in the latest powerful Russian drone strikes on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa on Monday. Fifteen residents, including a pregnant woman and two children,