WAR REPORT - RUSSO DAILY

Russian soldier gets 13 years in penal colony for desertion

Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)

Moscow has handed severe punishments for desertion during mobilisation -- which triggered a wave of emigration last year -- and to soldiers who refused to go in...

Israeli military strikes Gaza after border violence

Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)

The strike was the first since early July, when Israel responded to rocket fire from Gaza launched after its deadliest Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank in...

Pope's envoy talks Ukraine war with China: Vatican

Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who is on a three-day trip to Beijing, met with Li Hui, China's Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs, for an "open and cordial" ch...

Israel strikes on Syria kill two soldiers: state media

Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)

"At exactly 17:22 (1422 GMT) this afternoon, the Israeli enemy carried out strikes... from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea targeting some of our air defe...

Kim Jong Un says Russia will win 'great victory'

Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)

Putin held talks with the reclusive leader in Russia's Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East, as Moscow grows increasingly isolated from the West over its offens...

Niger military accuses France of deploying forces with eye to 'intervention'

Sep 10, 2023 (AFP)

"France continues to deploy its forces in several ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) countries as part of preparations for an aggression against...

'I could die': German military struggles to recruit

Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)

"In the case a war breaks out, one is obliged to go," the 23-year-old told AFP. "It could be that I will die." For many young Germans, a military career is out ...

NATO chief warns against 'escalation' in Kosovo

Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)

"I welcome recent steps taken by Pristina to lower tension, including reducing the number of special police in the north, and plans to facilitate new municipal ...

Ukraine counteroffensive 'moving forward': NATO chief

Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)

Stoltenberg said that when Russia launched its invasion, its military was seen as the second strongest in the world, adding: "Now the Russian army is the second...

Russian strike kills 16 in east Ukraine market, officials say

Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)

The projectiles ripped into the centre of Kostiantynivka, a town of nearly 70,000 people in the Donetsk region hours after America's top diplomat arrived in Kyi...

Kosovo situation 'highly volatile': NATO commander

Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)

Unrest rocked Serb-majority areas in the north of the territory in May, including a riot that saw more than 30 NATO peacekeepers injured during a clash with eth...

Ukraine parliament approves Umerov as new defence minister

Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)

Lawmakers had earlier approved Umerov, a Crimean Tatar, as Kyiv's new defence minister after his name was put forward by President Volodymyr Zelensky. "I will d...

Biden awards Vietnam veteran top honor days before Hanoi visit

Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)

Larry Taylor, now 81, braved heavy enemy fire so a group of trapped soldiers could cling onto the skids of his two-seat Cobra helicopter, a never-before-attempt...

Nine killed as Colombia guerrillas clash despite peace talks

Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)

Another five people, including a teenage girl from an Indigenous community, were injured in the clashes between dissidents of the now-disarmed FARC guerrilla gr...

Zelensky replaces defence minister, Russian drones hit Ukraine port

Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)

The announcement came hours after Ukraine fought off an attack by Russian drones in the southern Odesa region Sunday that hit a Danube port on the border with N...

Crimean Tatar set to be Ukraine's new defence minister

Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)

Umerov was born in Soviet Uzbekistan, the country his family was exiled to under Stalin, and moved back to Crimea in Ukraine as a child when the Tatars were all...

Russian army has recruited 280,000 soldiers since January: Medvedev

Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)

Russia has not announced another mobilisation, seen as an unpopular measure, but has led an active campaign to attract more men into the military as its Ukraine...

Syria's Assad scraps notorious military field courts

Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)

Assad issued a legislative decree "ending the work" of the original 1968 proclamation that created the courts, the presidency said in a statement. "All cases re...

Colombia, armed faction agree to ceasefire, future peace talks

Sep 02, 2023 (AFP)

A joint statement did not specify how soon the ceasefire would take effect but said peace talks would subsequently begin between the government and the dissiden...

Palestinian man killed as West Bank military raid erupts in shootout

Sep 01, 2023 (UPI)

Abd al-Rahim Fayez Ghannem, 36, died after being shot in the head by troops in the town of Aqaba, on the outskirts of Tubas, according to the Palestinian Minist...