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Tuesday, 27 June 2023 01:18
What to know after Day 488 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Putin thanks Russians for unity, vows to fulfill promise to Wagner fighters Russian President Vladimir Putin has delivered another televised address to the nation, thanking Russians for their unity amid the June 24 mutiny attempt. He stressed that from the very beginning, prompt measures had been taken to avoid bloodshed, lauded the courage of military servicemen and law enforcement officers and vowed to fulfill his promise to members of the Wagner private military company. TASS has collected the key remarks that Putin made in his address. Betrayal of mutiny organizers The organizers of the mutiny betrayed their country…
Monday, 26 June 2023 01:38
What to know after Day 487 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian military repels more than 20 Ukrainian attacks in single day – MoD Foreign powers involved in coup attempt in Russia – Serbian president Foreign intelligence services likely played a role in the failed Wagner PMC coup attempt on Saturday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed. In his address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the mutineers as traitors whose actions could play into the hands of Moscow’s adversaries. In an interview with Serbia’s Pink TV channel on Sunday, Vucic stressed that Belgrade does not support coups in other countries as a matter of principle. “We…
Monday, 26 June 2023 01:37
All we know after Day 72 of battles of Sudan military factions
Sudan's RSF says it seized police base as fighting rages Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had seized the main base of a heavily armed police unit on Sunday as it sought an edge in its war with the army during heavy fighting in the capital Khartoum. The RSF in a statement said it had taken full control of the large base belonging to the Central Reserve Police southern Khartoum and posted footage of its fighters celebrating inside the facility, some removing boxes of ammunition from a warehouse. It later said it had captured 160 pick-up trucks, 75…
Sunday, 25 June 2023 03:51
What to know after Day 486 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Wagner PMC ‘armed coup’ attempt in Russia: All the latest news Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group private military company, has been accused by the government of staging an armed insurrection. The charges were brought late Friday night after Prigozhin accused Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, the chair of the Russian general staff, of serious crimes. Prigozhin claimed to have ordered troops loyal to him to move towards Rostov-on-Don, a major city in southern Russia. Security measures were also reportedly beefed up in Moscow. 24 June 202322:34 GMTRussia’s federal road agency, Rosavtodor, told…
Saturday, 24 June 2023 02:40
What to know after Day 485 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Top Russian general sends message to ’mutinous’ Wagner PMC Deputy commander of the Russian Joint Forces, General Sergey Surovikin, asked on Friday the fighters of the private military company Wagner Group to stop their “rebellion” against Moscow. In a short video message released on social media, Surovikin said he had just returned from the front, where Russian forces were standing their ground against the Ukrainian offensive. “I appeal to the fighters and commanders of the PMC Wagner,” Surovikin said, still wearing his fatigues. “We have walked a difficult road together. We fought together, took risks together, suffered losses…
Saturday, 24 June 2023 02:39
All we know after Day 70 of battles of Sudan military factions
Sudan's warring factions widen conflict across the country Sudan's two-month long war is extending across the country with the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clashing in several areas on Friday. Air strikes and anti-aircraft missile fire hit overnight in the Omdurman and Khartoum, two of the three cities that make up Sudan's wider capital. But the war has in recent days heated up in cities to the west of the capital, in the fragile Darfur and Kordofan regions. In Al Fashir, capital of North Darfur state, a fragile truce fell apart as the two forces clashed in residential areas.…
Friday, 23 June 2023 04:30
What to know after Day 484 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to mainland in blow to Russian supply route Ukrainian missiles on Thursday struck one of the few bridges linking the Crimea Peninsula with the Ukrainian mainland, Russian-appointed officials said, cutting one of the main supply routes for Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine. Meanwhile on the eastern front, Ukrainian forces were containing Russian troops and have not allowed "a single metre" of Russian advances, Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on the Telegram app on Thursday. She added Ukrainian forces on the southern front, where several villages were retaken last week, were…
Friday, 23 June 2023 04:29
All we know after Day 69 of battles of Sudan military factions
South Kordofan residents flee as new front in Sudan war develops Residents of the city of Kadugli in southwest Sudan began fleeing the city on Thursday as tensions escalated between the army and a powerful rebel group, threatening to open another area of conflict in the country's ongoing war, witnesses said. Mobilisation around Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan state, and an escalation of fighting in Darfur come after nearly 10 weeks of fighting focused in the capital, Khartoum, between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The United States and Saudi Arabia adjourned talks they had been facilitating…
Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:55
What to know after Day 483 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainian troops understand they don’t stand a chance against Russian forces — Putin Ukraine’s troops understand that they don’t stand a chance against heroic and courageous fighters of the Russian Armed Forces, President Vladimir Putin emphasized on Wednesday. "Thanks to the courage and heroism of our fighters, thanks to the commanders’ readiness to repel any aggressive actions against Russia, I believe, the enemy doesn’t stand a chance. They understand that and this is why they have stalled now," Putin said at the meeting with military college graduates, answering a question from reporter Pavel Zarubin. "Ukrainian forces began [the…
Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:54
All we know after Day 68 of battles of Sudan military factions
Fighting surges in Sudan's capital as three-day ceasefire expires Heavy clashes broke out between rival military factions in several parts of Sudan's capital on Wednesday as a 72-hour ceasefire that saw several reports of violations expired, witnesses said. Shortly before the truce ended at 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) fighting was reported in all three of the cities that make up the wider capital around the confluence of the Nile: Khartoum, Bahri and Omdurman. Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been battling each other for more than two months, wreaking destruction on the capital, triggering widespread violence…
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Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:45
What to know after Day 482 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine loses ‘hundreds’ of men in failed assault – Russian MoD The Ukrainian military lost “dozens” of pieces of Western hardware and hundreds of troops in an unsuccessful attack on Russian positions in Zaporozhye Region, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday. The previous night’s assault came as part of a far wider Ukrainian counteroffensive raging across the entire frontline from Zaporozhye to Donetsk. The attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s (AFU) 65th Mechanised Brigade was repelled by the troops of Russia’s 58th Combined-Arms Army and Vostok-Akhmat battalion. The Russian Defense Ministry did not say exactly how…
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:44
All we know after Day 67 of battles of Sudan military factions
Sudanese civilians killed and shot at as they flee Darfur city by foot An increasing number of Sudanese civilians fleeing El Geneina, a city in Darfur hit by repeated militia attacks, have been killed or shot at as they tried to escape by foot to Chad since last week, witnesses said. The violence in El Geneina over the past two months has been driven by militias from Arab nomadic tribes along with members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a military faction engaged in a power struggle with Sudan's army in the capital, Khartoum, witnesses and activists said. A large…
Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:44
What to know after Day 481 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine prepares 'biggest blow' as it claims recapture of eight villages from Russia Ukraine said on Monday it had driven Russian forces out of an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive and a defence official vowed Kyiv's "biggest blow" lay ahead despite tough resistance from Moscow's troops. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Ukrainian forces had retaken Piatykhatky, a settlement on a heavily fortified part of the front line near the most direct route to the country's Azov Sea coast. This was part of an advance by Kyiv of up to seven km (4.3 miles) into Russian lines…
Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:41
All we know after Day 66 of battles of Sudan military factions
International donors pledge $1.5 billion in Sudan aid International donors made pledges on Monday of close to $1.5 billion in aid for Sudan and the surrounding region, about half of estimated needs for a deepening humanitarian crisis that has driven some 2.2 million people from their homes. The conflict between Sudan's army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has turned the capital Khartoum into a war zone and triggered lethal, repeated attacks and mass displacement in the western region of Darfur as well as other parts of the country. Though a 72-hour ceasefire has brought a lull in fighting in…