Nato defence chiefs have re-examined his lengthy speech of July 2021 and concluded they urgently need to reinforce Nato's eastern borders lest Putin is tempted to make a move on countries like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia After eight years of fighting a Russian-backed breakaway insurgency in the east of their country they are now watching it being shelled, bombed and rocketed by their giant nuclear-armed neighbour The invasion plan broadly consists of a three-pronged line of attack, from the north, east and south, using artillery and missile strikes to soften resistance before following up with infantry and tanks Putin would ideally like to see the Zelensky government quickly capitulate and surrender, to be replaced by a Moscow-leaning puppet government
Tanks and troops have poured into Ukraine at points along its eastern, southern and northern borders, Ukraine says He urged Ukrainian soldiers in the combat zone to lay down their weapons and go home, but said clashes were inevitable and "only a question of time" "Russia is becoming absolutely isolated," Ekaterina Kotrikadze, who was an anchor for the independent TV Rain in Russia before she fled her country, told CBS News
In the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion, I would walk for hours in the central Moscow district of Zamoskvorechiye, where I had lived and worked in the BBC office for seven years
The struggle for identity is further complicated by the fact that many Ukrainians grew up in Russian-speaking households But Putin’s invasion has accelerated a growing sense of a need to reassert a Ukrainian identity once and for all "We need independent media to stop the war and then try and improve life in Russia at least to a degree" https//pastelinknet/0tq3ea7v has travelled to Ukraine to meet some of the young people affected by the war We visited schools where air raid sirens and sheltering in underground classrooms are now a part of children's everyday lives The plant, on the north-western outskirts of the town, dominates the main road into Avdiivka and, the UK Ministry of Defence MoD believes if Russian forces were to secure it, resupplying the town would "become increasingly difficult for Ukraine"
Even before the war, Russia was not the kind of place where you willy-nilly shared your political beliefs with strangers, let alone with those who called out of the blue Russian air defences have prevented a drone attack on an oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, the regional governor has said Hungary has signalled it is ready to compromise on EU funding for Ukraine - after Brussels reportedly prepared to sabotage its economy if it did not comply Meanwhile, Moscow has claimed its forces have taken control of the village of Tabaivka in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region Then, as now, except for a few missile attacks, Lviv is probably one of the safest places to be in Ukraine, far from the front lines in the east and the south
Yet Volkov added that this tolerance, however passive, is likely to remain quite stable, even strong “If I watched different channels, I would probably have a different opinion, but I don’t watch them,” she said It’s not that she doesn’t know alternative information is out there, but that she doesn’t want it, lest her vision of the world come under threat “It’s not about having to reconsider this one event but everything you thought and understood over the last ten or fifteen years,” Volkov told me
It has cut diplomatic ties with Russia, offered weapons to anyone who wants them and declared an overnight curfew for Kyiv But later on Thursday President Zelensky said Ukraine had suffered losses and a lot of aircraft and armoured vehicles had been destroyed Convoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country The letter "Z" — initially used by Russian forces to identify their own on the battlefield — quickly became a potent pro-war propaganda tool for the Kremlin One pattern identified by pollsters is that most Russians say they would support peace talks to end the fighting