December 6, 2023
The counteroffensive launched by Ukrainian forces has been slow to show concrete results so far. ADVERTISEMENT The Ukrainian army said on Monday that Russian forces were trying to retake Robotyne, a village in the south whose liberation at the end of August had given Ukraine hope of a breakthrough in its counteroffensive, a hope that
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is set to retake the witness stand on Monday in his trial on fraud charges tied to the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange, with prosecutors poised to challenge his assertion that he did not steal billions of dollars in customer funds. Bankman-Fried first is due to answer around two more hours
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Israel is not a NATO member and does not have a formal defense treaty with the United States. But the United States has for decades designated Israel a “major non-NATO ally,” signed multiple defense cooperation agreements with it, and provided sophisticated weapons and billions of dollars in military aid. As Ukraine awaits a firm timetable
READ MORE(Reuters) – Ukrainian military officials said on Friday that Kyiv was persistently working to retake land near the shattered eastern city of Bakhmut while Russian forces were pouring in additional troops in a bid to stop Kyiv’s advances. “The Russians are throwing huge numbers of forces into the Bakhmut area,” Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna
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Ukrainian troops appeared broke through Russian lines to the Donbass region, which Moscow previously controlled since 2014, British intelligence said on Tuesday. The UK Ministry of Defense said Ukrainian airborne troops had made “little progress” east of the village of Krasnogorovka near Donetsk, which was previously on the “old lines of control”. Russian-backed forces in
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Intense fighting raged across a vast swath of southeastern Ukraine for a second day on Friday as Ukrainian forces attacked occupying Russian forces in multiple locations, and US military analysts and officials warned it was too early to assess the success of Kiev’s offensive. Both sides struggled with severe flooding caused by destruction of a
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There are reports that Ukraine may be about to retake southern Kherson, which could deal another devastating blow to Vladimir Putin after Russia’s recent setbacks. The forces of the two sides continued fighting without significant changes in the terrain on the eastern and southern fronts of Ukraine, while preparations for the battle for the region
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