These are the key developments as the war enters its 910th day. Here is the situation on Friday, August 23, 2024. Battle Ukraine said one man was killed and eight people, including a 15-year-old boy, were injured when Russia shelled residential buildings in the village of Bohodukhiv in the northeastern Kharkiv region. According to the […]
These are the key developments as the war enters its 909th day. Here is the situation on Thursday, August 22, 2024. Battle Acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said a woman was killed and two people injured when their car was hit by an explosive device dropped by a Ukrainian drone just outside […]
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijan formally applied to join the BRICS bloc of developing countries on Tuesday, a day after The visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the oil-rich South Caucasus country to strengthen regional relations and secure Moscow’s pressured trade routes. The announcement by the Foreign Ministry in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku came at […]
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities struggled for the third day in a row Tuesday to extinguish a massive fire in the southern Rostov region after an oil depot was attacked by Ukrainian drones as Ukrainian forces advanced into Russia’s Kursk region. According to Russian state news agencies, the fire at the depot in the […]
These are the most important developments on the 907th day of the war. Here is the situation on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. Battle Russia said Ukraine had attacked the third and final bridge over the Sejm River in the Kursk region, where Kyiv made a surprise incursion across the border on August 6. In his […]
In retrospect, wars often seem unavoidable. Tensions built up. National ambitions clashed. Mutual fears and mistrust grew. Historical grievances simmered. But in truth, they are never inevitable. They depend on decisions made by men – the leaders who ordered wars were almost always men – who could have chosen a different course of action. I […]
These are the key developments as the war enters its 906th day. Here is the situation on Monday, August 19, 2024. Battle Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy explained for the first time the aim of the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region on August 6, saying the operation was necessary to create a buffer zone. Ukrainian […]
These are the most important developments on the 904th day of the war. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 17, 2024. Battle At least two people were killed and others injured when Ukrainian artillery shelling hit a shopping mall in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Russian state news agencies said, citing […]
We are now once again in the preliminary phase of an international confrontation that will rapidly develop into world war unless democracies use their nuclear and conventional deterrence against territorial conquest. Comprehensive nuclear and conventional deterrence and Soviet assessment of the costs of war prevented the Cold War stalemate from escalating into World War III. […]
These are the most important developments on the 903rd day of the war. Here is the situation on Friday, August 16, 2024. Battle President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had taken complete control of the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region after sending thousands of troops across the border in a surprise attack on August […]
