WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Ukraine accuses Russia of shelling from captured nuclear plant

Jul 16, 2022 (AFP)

More than 20 weeks since Russia invaded its neighbor, leading to thousands of deaths and millions of displaced Ukrainians, the war-ravaged nation's President Vo...

Colombian forces kill FARC dissident leader

Jul 15, 2022 (AFP)

The operation "allowed us to neutralize nine individuals on the FARC dissident frontline as well as... Ivan Mordisco," minister Diego Molano told reporters, usi...

US official dismisses Russia claim of military target in Vinnytsia

Jul 15, 2022 (AFP)

"I have no indication that there was a military target anywhere near that," the senior defense official told reporters on condition of anonymity. "That looked l...

Belchite, the open wound of Spain's civil war

Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)

But it is the only one which looks largely as it did at the end of the conflict, with piles of rubble strewn about, the clock tower barely standing and mass gra...

Biden lands in Israel on first Middle East tour as US president

Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)

Biden's visit to Jeddah on Friday will be the focus of the tour, after he branded Saudi Arabia a "pariah" over the 2018 murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jam...

Belarus president claims West plotting to attack Russia

Jul 12, 2022 (AFP)

Speaking to military graduates and officers, Lukashenko said he discussed the alleged Western plot with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. "Strategic p...

Russian missiles pound east Ukraine, hit Kharkiv

Jul 09, 2022 (AFP)

Having endured long battles to capture cities in the neighbouring Lugansk region, Russia is now seeking to push deeper into Donetsk to consolidate its hold over...

Iran rejects UK claim of seizing Yemen-bound weapons

Jul 08, 2022 (AFP)

Britain's Ministry of Defence on Thursday said one of its warships on patrol in the Gulf earlier this year seized the arms shipment, which contravened a UN Secu...

Israel PM, defence minister talk to Abbas ahead of Biden visit

Jul 08, 2022 (AFP)

The phone call between Abbas and Prime Minister Yair Lapid took place early on Friday, according to a statement by the premier's office, and was the first conve...

Ukraine claims control of Snake Island

Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)

"We have effectively reestablished our control over Snake Island," a senior Ukraine military official, Oleksiy Gromov, said according to Ukraine's Interfax news...

New Zealand's Ardern decries UN 'failure' over Ukraine war

Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)

Ardern, who has long argued against the Security Council veto powers held by the five permanent members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, re...

What next for Putin in Ukraine fight?

Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)

After Russian troops captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Lysychansk on Sunday, here are five different options raised by security experts who spoke with AF...

Israel PM talks Iran, Lebanon with Macron on first foreign trip

Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)

Lapid also asked for backing in a gas dispute with Lebanon that days ago saw Israel shoot down three drones launched by Hezbollah, which it says is largely Iran...

Star wars: Russians turn to astrologers amid Ukraine conflict

Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)

As the Kremlin presses ahead with its military intervention in the pro-Western country, more and more Russians are turning to astrologers. In Russia's second ci...

Russian hockey star detained for allegedly dodging military draft

Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)

One-year military service is mandatory in Russia but is relatively unpopular, and many now fear it due to the prospect of being sent to fight in Ukraine. Fedoto...

Australia PM pledges military aid on Kyiv visit

Jul 03, 2022 (AFP)

Making the first ever visit to Ukraine by an Australian premier, Albanese said at a news conference in Kyiv that his country would give Ukraine "a hundred milli...

Israel says will examine bullet that killed reporter with US experts

Jul 03, 2022 (AFP)

Army spokesman Ran Kochav's comment on army radio came after the PA gave the green light for the Americans, but not the Israelis, to examine the bullet that kil...

Israel strike on Syria wounds two civilians: ministry

Jul 02, 2022 (AFP)

"The Israeli enemy carried out an air strike" after daybreak near the town of Al-Hamidiyah, the ministry said, identifying the locations hit as poultry farms, w...

Russia's exit from Snake Island shows 'impossible' to subdue Ukraine: UK

Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)

"In the end, it will prove impossible for Putin to hold down a country that will not accept his rule," Johnson told a news conference after a NATO summit in Mad...

UK army chief evokes fight with Nazi Germany in mobilisation call

Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)

Patrick Sanders, a general who became the army's top officer this month, said Moscow's attack on its neighbour represented "a clear and present danger" to Weste...