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Kyiv says it is preparing to carry out more long-range strikes on Russian energy infrastructure as winter approaches
Russian Attacks on Ukraine Russia mounted its second most-intense aerial assault overnight into Thursday, October 30, launching a salvo of 653 drones, decoys and missiles. Ukraine’s Air Force intercepted 592 drones and 31 missiles;
Vladimir Putin is trying to stop the U.S. from sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine by warning it would destroy improving Moscow-Washington ties, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) which has published a map showing which parts of Russia could be targeted.
During an Oval Office meeting this afternoon, President Trump showed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a map of Ukraine, titled “Russia-Ukraine Conflict Map,” indicating what percent of territory is under Russian control or contested land.
Russian forces are close to taking the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after a pincer movement almost totally encircled it while small groups of highly mobile Russian units penetrated the city, according to Russian military bloggers.
Donald Trump is reportedly ‘sick’ of being presented with maps of Ukraine’s battlefronts. The problem may be he and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy are looking at different things.
Moscow’s forces infiltrated Pokrovsk after months of attacks on the city, a strategic part of Ukraine’s eastern defenses.
President Trump reportedly lost patience with Ukraine war maps, pushing for a peace deal involving Donbas surrender. Deep divide with Zelenskyy on territorial stakes
Editor's note: this was Ukraine war latest for Oct. 29. Read our edition of Ukraine war latest for Oct. 30 here. Hi, this is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,343 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russian troops thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian special forces to fly soldiers in via a helicopter to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had tested a Poseidon nuclear-capable super torpedo and that it had been a “great success”. US and Russian officials have both described Poseidon as a new category of retaliatory weapon, capable of triggering radioactive ocean swells to render coastal cities uninhabitable.
Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Over the past year, Russian forces have slowly expanded the amount of territory they control, mostly in the east of Ukraine, and have continued their ...