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SBU source: about 200 Ukrainians held captive by Russian proxies
As of today, about 200 Ukrainians, including 60 civilians, are being held captive by the combined Russian-separatist forces, according to Yuriy Tandyt, who is an adviser to the chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine. "We speak about the number which is about 200 people. Why do we? Sometimes it happens that those who...
Militants attack using tanks and 122mm howitzers today
In the past 24 hours, on July 25, Russian-backed illegal armed groups shelled Ukrainian troops in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) area 75 times, with 39 attacks launched from 18.00 Kyiv time till midnight, the ATO press center wrote on Facebook. Starting from 20:00 Kyiv time, militants shelled almost simultaneously Ukrainian...
ATO Headquarters denies withdrawal of Azov and Aidar battalions
The Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters denies reports about withdrawal of units of the Azov battalion from positions near the village of Shyrokyne and withdrawal of the Aidar battalion in Luhansk direction, the ATO press center wrote on Facebook. Unreliable reports have been spread by some media and controversial...
Associated Press: Savchenko sent to western Russia before trial
Russia's human rights commissioner says the Ukrainian servicewoman charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists is being sent to a detention facility in western Russia as her trial looms closer. Nadezhda Savchenko, a military pilot, allegedly was working as a spotter in eastern Ukraine and provided the coordinates for a...
Russian terrorists attack on all fronts
The situation remained relatively quiet, yesterday on July 24 till 6 p.m. However, everything has changed afterwards. The militants fired at the ATO forces’ for about 70 times over the last 24 hours. Censor.NET reports citing the ATO press center. According to the report, the militants do not stop shelling civilians and...
Ukrainian military in Shyrokyne witness total destruction of the resort village (VIDEO)
Fighting in Shyrokyne has almost stopped, and pro-Russian mercenaries left the village and took positions to the west. As reported by Censor.NET, Ukrainian soldiers do not trust this maneuver by the terrorists and believe that as soon as Ukrainian army and the National Guard leave the strategic heights in the village, they...
One Ukrainian soldier killed, three wounded in Donbas in last day
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another three were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday, according to an UNIAN correspondent. "In the last day, we lost one Ukrainian...
Another Russian spy drone shot down in east Ukraine (Video)
The Russian-manufactured reconnaissance UAV cost some USD 2 million to make — media Another unmanned Russian reconnaissance drone has been shot down in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region. Ukrainian border guards spotted the spy craft about 1.5 kilometers from the Russian border this week, some 25 kilometers from the...
Independent analyst: Russia fears U.S. military bases in Ukraine in future
Pavel Felgenhauer, a leading independent Russian military analyst and commentator who is known for his publications critical of Russia's political and military leaders, claims that the Russian military chiefs fear that U.S. military bases may appear "somewhere in Poltava or outside Kharkiv" at some time in future....
Pentagon to send longer-range radars to Ukraine
The U.S. Defense Department is going to provide Ukraine with bigger, longer-range radar to help it counter artillery being used by Russia-backed rebels. The proposal still requires approval from the White House, which is considering another package of nonlethal assistance for Ukraine. The deliberations are taking place...
Top U.S. general backs giving lethal weapons to Ukraine
The United States should "seriously consider" providing Ukraine with lethal weapons and putting U.S. air strike controllers near combat areas in Iraq. This was announced by the U.S. General Mark Milley, Censor.NET reports citing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. General Mark Milley, who was nominated to be the next...
Minsk breakthrough: smaller weapons to be withdrawn from Donbas
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Serbia's First Vice Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic has announced the achievement of the Trilateral Contact Group, which agreed in Minsk on Tuesday that smaller-caliber weapons and tanks would be withdrawn from the contact line in Donbas in Ukraine's east, according to Russian...