WARS
Wednesday, 24 January 2024 04:44
What to know after Day 699 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities kill 18, Zelenskiy says Russian missiles hit Ukraine's two largest cities, killing 18 people, injuring more than 130 and damaging homes and infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as Moscow's war approaches its third year. The eastern city of Kharkiv suffered three waves of attacks. There were strikes on Kyiv and in central Ukraine and the southern region of Kherson, subject to constant shelling. Zelenskiy, in his nightly video address, said Russia had launched nearly 40 missiles of different types in "another combined strike to try to circumvent our air defence system". More…
Tuesday, 23 January 2024 04:55
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 109
Families of hostages held in Gaza storm Israel's parliament meeting demanding deal for release Dozens of family members of hostages held by Hamas stormed a committee meeting in Israel’s parliament Monday, demanding a deal to win their loved ones’ release, as European foreign ministers joined growing international calls for Israel to negotiate on the creation of a Palestinian state after the war. The developments showed the increasing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has dug in on both fronts. He has insisted to the Israeli public that pursuing the devastating offensive in Gaza is the only way to…
Tuesday, 23 January 2024 04:53
What to know after Day 698 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine's Zelenskiy hails diaspora, proposes dual citizenship President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked Ukrainians abroad on Monday for their support during Russia's invasion, and proposed changing the constitution to allow dual citizenship. Zelenskiy said he was submitting legislation to parliament on dual citizenship, in what appeared a symbolic gesture on Unity Day, the anniversary of the shortlived 1919 unification of eastern and western Ukrainian lands in an independent state. Zelenskiy also marked the day by issuing a decree protecting the rights and identity of some 4 million ethnic Ukrainians in Russia -- by far the largest diaspora group. Ukraine's constitution…
Monday, 22 January 2024 04:47
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 108
Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 25,000 while Israel announces the death of another hostage The Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Hamas has soared past 25,000, the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said Sunday, while Israel announced the death of another hostage and appeared far from achieving its goals of freeing more than 100 others and crushing the militant group. The war’s deaths, destruction and displacement are without precedent in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The war has divided Israelis while the offensive threatens to ignite a wider conflict involving Iran-backed groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq…
Monday, 22 January 2024 04:46
What to know after Day 697 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia suspends operations at fuel export terminal after suspected Ukrainian drone attack Russian energy company Novatek said on Sunday it had been forced to suspend some operations at a huge Baltic Sea fuel export terminal due to a fire started by what Ukrainian media said was a drone attack. The giant Ust-Luga complex, located on the Gulf of Finland about 170 km (110 miles) west of St. Petersburg, is used to ship oil and gas products to international markets. It processes stable gas condensate - a type of light oil - into light and heavy naphtha, kerosene and…
Sunday, 21 January 2024 04:45
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 107
Israeli soldiers uncover Gaza tunnel that once held hostages, army says At the end of a kilometer-long, booby-trapped tunnel in the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers discovered cramped cells where the military said Hamas kept about 20 hostages. They found a holding area, five narrow rooms behind metal bars, toilets, mattresses, and even drawings by a child hostage who was freed during a November truce, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said. No hostages were there when it was discovered. The military released photos from the underground labyrinth and said it brought in journalists to document the tunnel before it was destroyed. The…
Sunday, 21 January 2024 04:44
What to know after Day 696 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Zelenskiy counts on more Western defence aid for Ukraine in next two months President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he expected a number of new Western defence packages for Ukraine to be signed this and next month. "We are preparing new agreements with partners - strong bilateral agreements," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "January and February should bring corresponding results. There are already specific dates when new and strong documents can be expected." After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv's Western allies united in providing unprecedented military and other aid…
Saturday, 20 January 2024 05:02
Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead - UN report
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday. In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll in El Geneina to intelligence sources and contrasted it with the U.N. estimate that about 12,000 people have been killed across Sudan since war erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese army and the RSF. The monitors also described as "credible" accusations…
Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:54
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 106
Biden and Netanyahu have finally talked, but their visions still clash for ending Israel-Hamas war President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the fighting in Gaza ends. Biden and his top aides have all but smothered Netanyahu with robust support, even in the face of global condemnation over the mounting civilian death toll and humanitarian suffering in Gaza as the Israelis have carried out military operations in the aftermath of…
Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:53
What to know after Day 695 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Kiev has lost nearly 500 pieces of Western war machinery – Moscow Kiev lost over 500 pieces of military and special equipment while trying to break through Russian fortifications during the course of its largely unsuccessful counteroffensive launched last summer, according to the chief of Russia’s Engineering Troops, Lt. Gen. Yury Stavitsky. Russian defensive fortifications have proven to be highly effective against Ukraine’s hardware, including Western-supplied equipment, he claimed in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper published on Friday. Among those losses were over 180 pieces of Western-supplied materiel, including German-designed Leopard tanks and US-made Bradley infantry…
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Friday, 19 January 2024 04:48
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 105
Netanyahu says he has told US he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House. The tense back and forth reflected what has become a wide rift between the two allies over the scope of Israel’s war and its plans for the future of the beleaguered territory. “We obviously see it differently,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby said. Netanyahu…
Friday, 19 January 2024 04:47
What to know after Day 694 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine buys six French Caesar howitzers, France to supply missiles Ukraine has bought six Caesar howitzers, France's defence minister said on Thursday, adding that Paris would send 50 precision-guided missiles a month to Kyiv to aid its fight against Russia's invasion. Speaking to France Inter radio, Sebastien Lecornu said Caesar manufacturer Nexter had managed to halve the production time of the howitzer to 15 months meaning that some 78 units would be available this year. In Ukraine's first purchase of French-made weapons since the start of the war, Lecornu said Kyiv had bought six for between 3 million…
Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:30
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 104
Medicine for hostages and Palestinians arrives in Gaza under first Israel-Hamas deal since November A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas arrived in Gaza on Wednesday, part of a France- and Qatar- mediated deal that marked the first agreement between Israel and the militant group since a weeklong cease-fire in November. The deal could bring respite to some of the roughly 100 hostages who remain in captivity, as well as to Palestinians in Gaza in desperate need of aid. But fighting still rages in many parts of the beleaguered enclave, and an end to the war…
Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:30
What to know after Day 693 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces hit over 40 Ukrainian artillery units in Krasny Liman area Russia’s Battlegroup Center has hit more than 40 Ukrainian artillery units in the Krasny Liman area, the battlegroup’s spokesman Alexander Savchuk told TASS. "In the course of counterbattery activities, more than 40 enemy artillery units were spotted and hit. Air defense systems destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle of the Ukrainian army. Ukraine’s losses amounted up to 210 troops, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, two cars, and a D-30 howitzer," he said. ** Russian forces hit Ukrainian stronghold with over 20 soldiers in southern Donetsk area…