PEREMOHA, Ukraine — The Russian soldier’s hand reaches from the earth. His digits have retracted into a misshapen claw, a shape no living hand would willingly form. Some creature has already chewed on two of the fingers. A dog sits at the edge of the ...
Around 20 nations will soon send weapons to Ukraine, including anti-ship missiles, helicopters, and artillery, as the Russian invasion nears its fourth month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Monday, May 23. Perhaps most notably, ...
MOSHCHUN, Ukraine — The destruction is offensive. It violates your vision. You try to look away and find some safe place to rest your eyes. But there is none. No building left untouched. Some with only a wall or two caved in from the explosions; ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The crowd gathered in front of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery and spoke in whispers. Many of their hands held evenly numbered bundles of fresh flowers. That’s the tradition here: an even number of flowers for a ...
Some Russian troops have been refusing orders to fight, US officials said Monday, May 9, contributing to “incremental and anemic” advances in the highly contested Donbas region of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a senior defense official confirmed that Ukrainian ...
Did the Ukrainians get another one? Probably not. Rumors flew Friday that Ukrainian forces had followed up the sinking of a major Russian warship in April — the cruiser Moskva — by setting another Russian ship on fire in the Black Sea with ...
The Biden administration wants to sell off the yachts, homes and other luxury assets it has seized from Russian oligarchs and use those proceeds to support reparations for Ukraine. As part of his proposal for the latest aid package to Ukraine, ...
It was lunchtime, and both the American trainers and their Ukrainian students were taking a break. It was relatively straightforward training — US soldiers teaching and working with their counterparts from Ukraine on the basics of US-made 155mm ...
KYIV, Ukraine — A prominent Ukrainian journalist was killed in combat on Wednesday, May 4, while serving as a front-line soldier near the town of Izyum in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. A combat veteran of Ukraine’s military campaign in the Donbas, ...
Faced with the prospect of sending Russian troops into subterranean combat, Vladimir Putin demurred. “There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground,” he told his defense minister on April 21, 2022, ordering him to cancel a ...
In December 2006, The Economist magazine published a cover drawing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, dressed like a 1930s gangster in a dark suit and fedora hat, under the headline “Don’t Mess with Russia.” Putin held a gasoline nozzle, gripping ...
There is growing concern that Moldova and Transnistria could be dragged into Russia’s war against Ukraine. Both Transnistria and Moldova are directly west of Ukraine. Transnistria, a small, breakaway region of Moldova, is sandwiched between ...
A Marine Corps veteran was killed Monday, April 25, while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, according to news reports. Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, is believed to be the first US citizen killed while fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Two Americans volunteering in Ukraine’s armed forces were wounded by artillery fire during combat in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, April 27. US Army veterans Paul Gray and Manus McCaffery were on a mission to destroy a ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Two months into Russia’s full-scale war, Ukrainian forces have won the Battle of Kyiv, and some of the capital city’s territorial defense volunteers have repositioned to defend against a large-scale Russian offensive in eastern and ...
A false internet rumor sent a slew of online detectives searching this week for some of the rarest, most secret — and sometimes just ugliest — abandoned Russian military planes on Google Maps. First, the false rumor: Early in the week, a story ...
Russia may be on the cusp of its first default on its foreign debt since the Bolsheviks ousted Czar Nicholas II a century ago. On April 14, 2022, Moody’s Investors Service warned the country’s decision to make payments on dollar-issued debt in ...
Update, 5 p.m., April 21: In a press conference several hours after this story was published, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said that some information on the Phoenix Ghost previously given to reporters by a senior defense official was not ...
Ukraine's air force has returned 20 planes to duty in the last three weeks, a senior defense official at the Pentagon said Wednesday, April 20, thanks to a recent influx of spare parts. The official was quick to note that none of the 20 planes ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia has launched barrages of artillery and rocket attacks at multiple locations in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, underscoring what is likely a “new phase” in the full-scale war, Ukrainian officials said. The Russian attacks ...
Update, April 14, 4:20 p.m.: The Moskva sank in the Black Sea while being towed to its home port in a storm, Russian state media said. It was reported to be the largest Russian warship in the Black Sea. Original Story: The Pentagon confirmed ...
Reports in Russian state-run media appear to confirm social media chatter that a premier Russian warship, the Moskva, has been badly damaged — and is perhaps burning or even sinking — in the Black Sea. No details have been confirmed by the US ...
The US is sending over a dozen 155 mm howitzers and helicopters among thousands of weapons to Ukraine in the coming weeks as part of a new $800 million aid package approved by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, April 13. The list of weapons headed to ...
This article was originally published April 11, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. Almost two months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military finally appointed a general to oversee the whole war ...
In the town of Bucha, Ukraine, approximately 150 corpses lie in a mass grave near the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints. "There were too many dead people, and there was no way to properly bury them because getting to the cemetery ...
The United States should consider building more permanent bases in Eastern Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rotate troops through the new posts, the nation's highest-ranking military officer told lawmakers Tuesday, April ...
The war in Ukraine has attracted many foreigners to join the fight against Russia. One notable fighter is a Canadian who goes by the war nickname ‘Wali,’ which means “protector” or “guardian” in Arabic. He previously served in Kandahar Province, ...
The Marine Corps has issued an order prohibiting active duty and Reserve Marines from traveling to Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, where Russian operations against Ukraine may be ongoing. The order, MARADMIN 138/22, issued in late March, bars ...
US federal agents and Spanish authorities have stormed and seized a $90 million yacht owned by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin. Video footage of the Monday, April 4, operation on the Mediterranean island of ...
Did Ukrainian forces pull off a daring aerial strike deep in Russian territory, a strike that at least some analysts have compared to the United States’ Doolittle Raid in World War II? Russian authorities say yes, reporting that a pre-dawn raid by ...
