As the war enters its 657th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, December 12, 2023. Fighting The Ukrainian military said Russian forces unleashed a huge new offensive on the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, just northwest of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk. Military spokesperson…
A spokesperson for the Russian opposition figure says that prison officials have refused to say where he was transferred. A spokesperson for Alexey Navalny has said that the Russian opposition leader has been removed from the prison where he was being held and that his whereabouts are unknown. In a…
The decision raises logistical and security challenges for Moscow because of its limited control in the four regions. Russia plans to run next year’s presidential election in the four regions of Ukraine that it annexed in 2022. The Central Elections Commission said on Monday that voting would go ahead in…
Russia says it has arrested 18 Ukrainian ‘agents and accomplices’ who plotted to assassinate pro-Russian figures. Russia says that it has arrested a network of Ukrainian assassins targeting pro-Russian figures in the annexed Crimea peninsula. Moscow’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it has arrested 18 “agents and…
The Russian foreign minister debates his country’s approaches to Gaza and Ukraine. In a world grappling with its geopolitics being fragmented, the East versus West competition for power is seemingly threatening to divide and polarise the global order. Russia’s ability to selectively influence leaders and events in various parts of…
Ukrainian president will travel to Washington, DC as right-wing Republicans baulk at providing more help to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington, DC on Monday for meetings at the White House and the United States Capitol as right-wing US Republicans resist…
As the war enters its 656th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, December 11, 2023. Fighting One civilian was killed and another wounded after Russian forces dropped an explosive from a drone on the town of Beryslav in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson….
Speaking at the Doha Forum, the Russian foreign minister calls for international monitoring of the situation in Gaza. The Russian foreign minister says it is unacceptable that Israel is using Hamas’s October 7 offensive as justification for a collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza and has called for international monitoring…
Should Ukraine hold a presidential election next March, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s term ends? Ukrainian society has answered with a resounding “no”. Since February 2022, Ukraine has faced a full-scale Russian invasion that has seen its eastern territories occupied. That conflict triggered Ukraine’s martial law, which temporarily suspends elections. But while…
The athletes had initially been banned from competing internationally following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has given the green light to the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the games next year as neutrals. Russian and Belarusian athletes who qualify in their sport for the…
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