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After one year of fighting the war in Ukraine has no visible end in sight, The Russian casualties are estimated at 180 000 and Ukrainians casualties are at 100 000 military personnel with 30 000 civilians. Cities like Bakhmut, Mariupol and Lyman have been destroyed, Kyiv has been battered by missiles. The Russian have met …
An international dispute over allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics continues to escalate, as Ukraine is strong in its threat to boycott the games. While the fate of ‘neutral athletes’ from Russia and Belarus in the upcoming games remains undecided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the prospect of …
The Russian forces have begun to shake the Ukrainian front lines, both sides are bitterly fighting for the city of Bakhmut. Russia’s most effective fighting force, the Wagner mercenary group, are aggressively attacking the city but are taking heavy losses for small gains. The Ukrainians are using the winter to get ready for a push …
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has chosen Human Rights Day to announce Magnitsky-style sanctions against 13 Russian and Iranian individuals and two entities, in response to human rights abuses. Wong has described these sanctions as a means of holding human rights abusers to account, in situations where dialogue has proven ineffective. Image: Image: Shutterstock: Zerbor Produced …
Viktor Bout, a convicted arms dealer nicknamed the “Merchant of Death,” has been released by the U.S. in a one-for-one prisoner swap that freed women’s basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been imprisoned in Russia since February. The negotiation for the release has left some concern that the US were not strong enough in the diplomacy, …
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Last week, A Dutch court delivered its long-awaited verdict over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, ruling 3 of the 4 main suspects guilty of murder. MH17 was blown out of the sky in July 2014 over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Since then, Dutch investigators, along with assistance from the Australian …
The Russians know better then anyone that winter is an enemy of an invading army. The cold and snow slows supplies and destroys moral. In the second world war the cruel Russian winter decimated the German army, but now the shoe is on the foot, the Russian Armed Forces now have to deal with an …
As missile strikes hit Poland, NATO is now on heightened alert as Poland is a NATO country. The west has moved a step closer to direct war with Russia if these missiles were in fact fired by Russia. But the US has suggested that the trajectory of the missile would mean that it did not …