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field. The outcome will depend “on the speed and scope of Western deliveries and the ability of Russian air defences to intercept this kind of weaponry”, said Igor Korotchenko, editor of the Moscow-based National Defenc
nable. Kofman said he believed that “the Russian military likely has the manpower and reserves to mount a stubborn defence” against a Ukrainian counter-offensive, with “minefields and trenches” at its
He had initially vowed to stay put in Kyiv despite the constant blaring of air raid sirens and attacks on residential buildings, but decided to leave after hearing reports of Russian soldiers ‘raping’ Ukrainian women.
Russia forcibly annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 after a pro-Moscow president was toppled amid mass street protests.
Kyiv has vowed to recapture the Black Sea peninsula along with all other Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces.
ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) – Austria’s government is monitoring the global banking turmoil although there are so far no signs of it spreading to the country’s financial sector, Finance Minister Magnus Brunner said in an interview published on Saturday.
April 8 (Reuters) – A missile fired from Ukrainian-held territory was shot down over the Black Sea town of Feodosia in Russian-controlled Crimea, the Moscow-installed head of Crimea’s administration said on Saturday.
osses. “Even if Bakhmut falls, the Russian invasion will fall well short of seizing control of Donetsk Oblast, one of its main territorial objectives”, the Washington-based Hudson Institute said in its latest milita
The great signifiers of spring: reading programs for kindergarten daffodils blooming, days lengthening, and Paris Saint-Germain embroiled in a sizeable crisis with the manager on the brink and the supporters tired of a bloated playing squad.
value. The Russian mercenary outfit Wagner has been spearheading the attack and claimed Monday that it had captured Bakhmut city hall — but Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has said his forces are still sufferi
The Austrian lender is now the most important Western bank in Russia, offering a lifeline to people and businesses there seeking to make international payments, but it is under growing pressure from Western officials and investors to quit.
Rumblings this season have begun to emerge among the club’s ultras, with barrages of whistling – and in some cases, outright abuse – being aimed at the club’s major superstars, including Lionel Messi and Neymar.
A retort to that from supporters might say that in a functional, reading comprehension quiz elite modern team all 10 outfield players need to work as hard as each other.
Jack Grealish’s remarkable tracking back to prevent what seemed a certain Liverpool second at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday has been noted by many observers.
Their eighth defeat this side of the World Cup, their fifth in the league, with the others coming in the Coupe de France and the Champions League, has awoken those to join the lengthening queue lining up to lambast the club – with the players and ownership on the receiving end this time.
tion?” Kofman warned that Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov is “exhausting the force with an ill-timed, feckless set of offensive operations, whose gains will not change the strategic picture for Russia, but could leave Russian forces more vu
oscow. As spring arrives, the two armies are deadlocked with troops stretching from the shores of the Black Sea to northeast Ukraine — and the Kremlin has once again been forced to take the long view after failing to make a bre
“The ‘guardians’ of free speech have in all seriousness allowed users of their social media to wish death upon the Russian military,” Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on the messaging app Telegram.
The Argentine Messi has suffered a similar dip to Neymar. He was enjoying by far his best period in a PSG shirt prior to Qatar, scoring a goal every 138 minutes and grabbing a goal involvement (either a goal or assist) every 64 minutes.
Since the World Cup, those minutes have grown exponentially to 210 and 140.
‘Paris no longer responds,’ the front page of L’Equipe read, perhaps insinuating manager Christophe Galtier could no longer garner a response from his team, who have burnt through managers of a far higher profile than he.
March 18 (Reuters) – Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc’s Google stop spreading what it called threats against Russian citizens on its YouTube video-sharing platform, a move that could presage an outright block of the service on Russian territory.
Such has been PSG’s direction since being bought by the Qataris over a decade ago, Ligue 1 has turned into something of a procession – certainly nothing for supporters or players alike to be enthused about.
Anton Gorelkin, a member of Russia’s State Duma committee on information and communications, pointed Russians to services that would help them move videos from YouTube to the domestic equivalent, RuTube.