Day: February 18, 2023

Russia on Saturday claimed to have taken control of a small village near the key city of Kupiansk in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv. “The settlement of Gryanikovka… was completely liberated,” the defense ministry said in a statement, referring to the Ukrainian village of Hryanykivka by its Russian name. Hryanykivka was home to around…

The Russian authorities have created a digital database of citizens who are eligible to be drafted into the military amid growing rumors of a second mobilization campaign, independent journalists Farida Rustamova and Maksim Tovkailo reported Saturday. The database will reportedly contain information about Russian citizens gathered from the country’s Central Election Commission, the Ministry of…

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accused Russia of committing “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine and Russian forces of conducting “widespread and systemic” attacks on the country’s civilian population. She made the comments at the Munich Security Conference, days ahead of the one-year anniversary of Moscow sending its forces into Ukraine, unleashing war in…

Ukraine’s Western backers on Saturday urged allies to give Ukraine what it needs to beat Russia, with NATO’s chief warning of the risks of victory for Moscow, ahead of the anniversary of the war’s outbreak. World leaders are meeting at the Munich Security Conference with conflict still raging almost a year after Moscow sent troops…

When Russia introduced patriotism classes in primary and secondary schools last September, Tatyana Chervenko decided she was not going to peddle Kremlin “propaganda” to her eighth-grade students in Moscow. The 49-year-old used some of the classes to teach math instead and ignored talking points pushed by the Kremlin about the conflict raging in Ukraine. Chervenko…

President Joe Biden will be “messaging” Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when he speaks in Warsaw next week, while hailing NATO’s unprecedented effort to help Ukrainians save their country as the war reaches the one-year mark. The White House says Biden will give the speech in Poland — a key U.S. ally and fulcrum of vast…