The Pigeon Express
Russian authorities have promised to fix the mistakes in their troop call-up for Ukraine, after some public outrage over students, older or sick people being mistakenly ordered to report for duty. When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation last week, he said only people with “relevant” skills or military experience would be concerned. […]
The daughter of a close ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has been killed in a suspected car bombing. Darya Dugina, 29, died after an explosion on a road outside Moscow, Russia’s investigative committee said. It is thought her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as “Putin’s brain”, may have been the […]
A woman had to put down her beloved four dogs because a rescue she was fostering exposed them to an extremely rare disease. Wendy Hayes, 61, decided to take in Moosha, believed to be a German Shepherd cross, from a rescue company which helps strays from Ukraine and Belarus, but later contracted the illness herself. […]
Ukraine says it has taken out another bridge that is vital for Russian forces occupying the southern Kherson region. It says the bridge on the dam at Nova Kakhovka is now impassable. It comes just weeks after the key Antonivsky Bridge was put out of action by Ukrainian forces. Ukraine is waging a counter-offensive towards […]
The war in Ukraine began with Crimea and must end with its liberation, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Ukraine’s president was speaking after a string of explosions hit a Russian airbase there, killing one person. Mr Zelensky did not mention Tuesday’s blasts but said: “Crimea is Ukrainian and we will never give it up.” Russia’s […]
One person has died after blasts at a military base in Crimea, the head of the Russia-appointed regional administration has said. Sergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula’s western coast. Footage circulating on social media appeared to show multiple explosions. […]
Ukraine’s nuclear agency says Russian rockets have damaged part of a giant Russian-controlled nuclear power plant, but there has been no radiation leak. Enerhoatom said a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line had been damaged at the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest in southern Ukraine. Ukraine also accuses Russian forces of firing rockets at civilian […]
Russia has accused the United States of direct involvement in the Ukraine war. Moscow said on Tuesday it was responding to comments by Vadym Skibitsky, Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence, about the way Kyiv used US-supplied long-range HIMARS rocket launch systems based on what he called excellent satellite imagery and real-time information. Skibitsky told […]
The U.N. nuclear chief warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident. Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, […]
Vladimir Putin’s rumored lover has been hit with sanctions from the US government’s treasury department over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Alina Kabaeva, 39, landed on the latest update to the federal Office of Foreign Assets Control’s specially designated nationals list, freezing any of her assets in the US and generally prohibiting Americans from dealing with […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday there could be no winners in a nuclear war and no such war should ever be started. Putin made the comment in a letter to participants of a conference on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT), more than five months into his war on Ukraine. “We proceed from the fact […]
The first ship carrying grain has left a Ukrainian port under a landmark deal with Russia. Turkish and Ukrainian officials say the ship left the southern port of Odesa early on Monday morning local time. Russia has been blockading Ukrainian ports since February, but the two sides agreed a deal to resume shipments. It is […]