Ukrainian forces say they have destroyed a Russian missile boat from the Black Sea Fleet in a special operation off Russian-occupied Crimea. The Ivanovets – a small warship – received “direct hits to the hull” overnight, after which it sank, military intelligence said. It has released video footage that purports to show the moment of…
Russia and Ukraine say they have exchanged captured soldiers – the first such swap since the crash of a Russian plane that Moscow claimed had 65 prisoners of war (PoWs) on board. Russia’s military says each side got 195 soldiers back on Wednesday. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says 207 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians were returned….
Ukraine’s security service says it has uncovered corruption in an arms purchase by the military worth about $40m (£31m). The SBU said five senior people in the defence ministry and at an arms supplier were being investigated. It said the defence officials signed a contract for 100,000 mortar shells in August 2022. Payment was made…
A representative of Ukrainian defence intelligence has told the BBC that he “does not exclude” the possibility there were Ukrainian prisoners on board the Russian military plane that came down in Belgorod. However, Andriy Yusov stressed that Russia had provided no proof to back its claims there were. “There is no clear information about prisoners…
Russian woman Darya Trepova has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for the killing of pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky last April. Tatarsky was killed by a bomb in a statuette Trepova gave him, as he was about to give a talk in St Petersburg. Dozens were injured in the blast. Trepova, 26, denied the…
There are shooting wars and there are information wars and countries that are fighting do battle on both fronts. For the rest of us, it can make establishing facts very difficult. But whilst that’s true in this war as in any, it’s important to remember that Russia specifically has a long history of brazen lies…
Ukraine’s military intelligence has accused Russia of deliberately jeopardising the lives of prisoners of war, after Moscow said Kyiv had downed a plane with 65 PoWs on board. The Ilyushin-76 military transport plane crashed in Russia’s southern Belgorod region near Ukraine. Russia’s ministry of defence said Ukrainian PoWs were being flown into Belgorod for a…
There are few places from where you can see Russian-occupied territory with the naked eye in Ukraine. The western bank of the Dnipro river in the city of Kherson is one of them. You can’t see the Russian troops on the other low, marshy riverbank, but you know they’re there. Incoming artillery fire as we…
At least 25 people were killed in a shelling attack in the Russian-held city of Donetsk, the Moscow-installed leader of the region said. Denis Pushilin said a Ukrainian strike, which also injured 20 people, hit a busy market. He said emergency services were working at the scene, and that information on the number of dead…
Ukraine’s military says it has shot down a Russian military spy plane over the Sea of Azov, in what analysts say would be a blow to Moscow’s air power. Army chief Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the air force had “destroyed” an A-50 long range radar detection aircraft, and an Il-22 air control centre. The A-50…