Labor sharpened its attack on Peter Dutton in the second week of rancorous debate over visas for people fleeing Gaza.
The Kursk incursion has humiliated Russia’s military and demonstrated Ukraine’s resilience,but it has not altered the fundamental situation,including Putin’s grip on power.
“As strange as it sounds,what I want to be doing most of all right now is playing cricket. But I have a sniper’s rifle in my hands right now instead of a bat,and a grenade instead of a ball.”
Kyiv’s allies are largely withholding judgment over the Ukrainian offensive into Russian territory amid uncertainty over the ultimate goal of the operation.
Ukrainian forces have pushed on with their major cross-border advance into the Kursk region for a second week,claiming to have captured more Russian ground and prisoners.
Planned in secrecy,the incursion was a bold move to upend the war’s dynamics and put Moscow on the defensive – a gambit that could also leave Ukraine exposed.
Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had rounded up Russian prisoners of war who could be swapped for captured Ukrainian fighters,expanding what he called an “exchange fund”.
The acting Kursk governor said that about 121,000 Russians have been evacuated or left the areas affected by fighting on their own.
The Ukrainian president has indirectly acknowledged his nation’s incursion into Russia,saying his country must “push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.”
A Russian military blog describes Ukrainian units entering village after village to stage ambushes against arriving Russian reinforcements.
As much as a high jump gold medal would have meant to Australia’s athletes and their supporters,it means much more to the Ukrainian who beat them.