According to U.N. figures, 399 people have been killed and 915 wounded from landmines and other munitions since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, equal to the number of casualties reported from 2014-2021. More than 1 in 10 of those casualties have been children.
NATO and the European Union are ramping up efforts to persuade China to help get North Korea to stop sending troops and other support to Russia to back its war on Ukraine.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been the biggest benefactor to Putin and Kim in recent years, and sees both leaders as partners. But his government has publicly remained muted on North Korea’s troop dispatch to Russia — a sign that Xi is unhappy with the arrangement.
In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political prisoners from an Alpine hotel that members of Hitler’s SS intended to barter for free passage as the Allies converged on Berlin hundreds of miles to the north.
Russia is increasingly hitting the Kharkiv region with unstoppable, building-leveling glide bombs and swarms of drones and chipping away at territory there. Its troops are advancing in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Among Ukraine’s European allies, there is a quiet but growing shift toward the notion that the war with Russia will end only through negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow involving concessions of Ukrainian territory.
The base was originally conceived as a way to protect Europe from Iran. But Poland has always seen it as a guarantee of U.S. protection in case of Russia aggression. The Kremlin denounced it as a challenge to its own military potential that would require measures “to ensure parity.”
The Biden administration is committed to ensuring “every dollar we have at our disposal” is pushed out to Ukraine before Donald Trump takes office, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said air-defense forces repelled Russian attacks targeting Kyiv and other regions in the first such assault on the capital in more than two months as his country prepares for winter.
The Navy’s only air station in Europe restricted its operations to essential personnel Tuesday as Italian authorities issued a weather alert for parts of Sicily.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has called on Western allies to provide Ukraine with further support “to change the trajectory of the conflict” with Russia.
A majority of Germans support significant defense spending increases, an outlook that coincides with an anticipated pressure campaign on allied militaries to step up, a new public opinion survey found.
The Dutch government said on Monday that it will bring in extra checks at its land borders to combat irregular migration, similar to a policy brought in by Germany in September.
Russia’s most advanced submarine was spotted for the first time in waters near Japan, the country’s military announced Monday.
North Korea says it has ratified a major defense treaty with Russia stipulating mutual military aid. Russia last week completed the ratification process of the treaty that is considered both countries’ biggest defense deal since the end of the Cold War.
President Andrzej Duda marked Poland’s Independence Day on Monday with a call for sustained U.S. commitment to Europe’s security in view of Russian aggression in the region and argued that Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders should be restored.
The Kremlin rejected reports that President Vladimir Putin spoke last week with President-elect Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine, and a spokesman for Trump refused to comment on what he called his “private calls” with world leaders.
Russia recently intensified strikes that have long tormented civilian areas, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and discussed the war in Ukraine