Since the end of the Cold War,Western nations have largely been able to assume a posture of strategic timidity. Ukraine doesn’t have that choice.
“This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow using drones ever. We continue to monitor the situation,” the Moscow mayor said.
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 UK,US and the EU are among those sanctioning Chinese companies accused of helping Russia wreak havoc in Ukraine. The Albanese government is an outlier.
After a hospital bombing,the Ukrainian leader put out an urgent call for help before Donald Trump’s possible re-election in the US in November.
Russia’s problems represent a significant change in the dynamic of the war,which had favoured Moscow in recent months.
The Russian missile attack on a Kyiv paediatric hospital has brought worldwide condemnation yet Russia blamed Ukraine air defences.
Missile strikes were launched on several Ukrainian cities - including the capital Kyiv - killing and wounding dozens and damaging a children’s cancer hospital.