Tag Archives: Ukraines

Ukrainian intelligence agents on Sunday killed members of a Russian secret service cell wanted on suspicion of having shot dead a colonel in Ukraine’s SBU security service last week, the SBU said. The intelligence agency said in a statement that the operation had sought the arrest of the agents of …

A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine’s Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the early months of the war and is designated as a “terrorist organization” by Russia. The defendants, charged with “terrorist activity” and …

U.S. President Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with his suggestion that American interests could somehow take control of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power station, which has been occupied by Russian forces for the past three years. How this would work and the likelihood of wresting the Zaporizhzhia plant from Russia’s hands are among the many questions raised by Trump’s proposal, which …

Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in their latest drone and missile attack, Ukraine’s energy minister said on Friday. Regional officials from the northeastern city of Kharkiv to the western city of Ternopil reported damage to energy and other infrastructure. Eight people were injured in Kharkiv and two …

The giant excavator working in the quarry near the central Ukrainian town of Zhytomyr rarely stops scooping, removing earth and precious titanium ore 24 hours a day.  “Ukraine possesses approximately 20 per cent of the world’s titanium reserves,” operations manager Dmytro Holik told CBC News, as the noise of the …

As soldiers fighting for Ukraine try to hold onto the hundreds of square kilometres they seized in Russia’s Kursk region in August, some describe facing relentless waves of determined North Korean troops, Russian units with improved tactics, and Ukraine’s own struggles with exhaustion and sinking morale.  “I honestly don’t think we’re …

Two children were among 11 people killed when a Russian missile hit a residential building in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said, while another missile strike left the region’s administrative centre without power. Eighty-nine people, including 11 children, were also injured in the attack on the city late on Sunday, …

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unveiled his much anticipated “victory plan” at Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday, urging his war-weary country to stay united at a precarious time ahead of its key U.S. ally’s Nov. 5 presidential election. As Russian troops advance in the east and a bleak winter of power shortages looms, …

Dave Smith says no one in his family was too surprised when he told them he was going to quit his job as a major in the Canadian Armed Forces to fight in the muddy trenches of eastern Ukraine. “I actually never had to explain it to them. My brother, …

Oleksandr Kharchenko doesn’t believe in coincidences. The seasoned energy adviser to multiple Ukrainian government departments, agencies and parliamentary members told CBC News he saw a point last winter when his country’s electrical grid was at its most vulnerable. At the time, Ukraine was in the final throes of an almost decade-long process …