Tim Lister

The eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk is “completely under Russian occupation,” the city’s head of military administration said Saturday, following months of grueling and bloody fighting.

Videos alleged to show Russian soldiers castrating and killing a bound and gagged Ukrainian soldier are circulating on social media, drawing an accusation of potential war crimes from the United Nations and prompting a Ukrainian investigation into possible torture.

Russia has ordered a retreat from the key southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital Russia captured since February’s invasion, in a dramatic strategic setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the face of Ukrainian advances in the region.

World leaders gathering at the G20 summit in Bali are attempting to diffuse a potential escalation in the months-long Ukraine war after a “Russian-made” missile struck NATO-member Poland killing two people.

Artur Smolyaninov fue el héroe de “Devyataya Rota” (La 9ª Compañía), un largometraje ruso que se estrenó en 2005.

A fresh barrage of missiles ripped through the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine Thursday, sending flames and thick plumes into the air as screaming civilians scrambled to find shelter.

While many predicted Ukrainian resistance would collapse, the country has instead inflicted major losses on the Russian army and could still prevail.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has paid a rare visit to Russian troops serving in occupied Ukraine -- a visit that’s probaby as much about optics as about the course of Russia’s invasion.

Ukraine will soon face its second winter at war, and the bold campaigns of a year ago that saw significant gains in Kharkiv and Kherson seem a distant memory. The Ukrainian military is now waging a war of intense attrition against stubborn and larger Russian forces along a front of nearly 1,000 kilometers. It is still desperately short of air power, and offensive action will be disrupted by the deteriorating weather. The Russians are likely to launch another campaign to cripple Ukraine’s energy…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia has successfully carried out a test of a new generation of nuclear-powered cruise missile. State news agency RIA Novosti quoted Putin as saying the “last successful test of the Burevestnik, a global-range cruise missile with a nuclear installation, a nuclear propulsion system, has been conducted.” Putin was speaking at the Valdai Forum in Sochi. The program to develop the Burevestnik was announced by Putin in March 2018 as part of a broa…