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They even made money on dogs: what Accounting Chamber found in procurement of food by Ministry of Defense In the first half of 2023, the Ministry of Defence procured food at prices 30% higher than consumer prices, did not analyze prices, did not control the quantity of products supplied, and 75% of the items in the food catalog were not provided to units. 31.10.23 11:00 136 328 125 Previously in trend: War

Military chaplain Kateryna Semenyuk: "One woman from Izyum told what happened during occupation and said: "I don’t believe that even maniac could do such thing. Demons did it" Recalling the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion, my interlocutor says that she gave birth to her son just a couple of hours after the Russians launched the first missiles. But the very next day, staying with the child in the basement of the hospital, which served as a bomb shelter, she arranged for the arrival of trucks with humanitarian aid by phone. This is how the mother of five first became a volunteer and later joined the military chaplaincy corps. 23.10.23 16:35 23 681 40 Previously in trend: War

Battle for Avdiivka: situation on October 22 After the defeat of massive attacks by armoured columns on 10-14 and 19 October, the Russian command continues to assault with infantry forces. 23.10.23 09:30 12 087 14 Previously in trend: War

Battle for Avdiivka: situation on October 18 After the failure of the assault on 10-14 October, Russian troops consolidated several captured positions. The Russians advanced one position north of Avdiivka and part of the village of Vodiane south of Avdiivka. They paid a heavy price for this. 19.10.23 08:55 7 041 5 Previously in trend: War

How infantry fights in winter It just so happened that my cunning plan to transfer to an interesting unit and take up a worldspot (a position where the chances of dying are minimal) was crushed by army bureaucracy and one crooked ahvitser in the General Staff Personnel Department (I wish they would send that fool to the infantry), so here I am, preparing for the Bakhmut (Avdiivka, Serebryany, Robotyn, emphasis added) winter again. 18.10.23 18:30 9 462 6 Previously in trend: War

Three Russian brigades against one Ukrainian: majestic feat of 110th mechanized brigade in battle for Avdiivka Situation as of 15 October regarding the battle for Avdiivka, the focus of the main efforts of Russian troops in Donbas. 16.10.23 13:15 32 611 21 Previously in trend: War

Even after being wounded, he did not stop commanding battle - story of Hero of Ukraine, Heorhiy Lysenko On the Independence Day of Ukraine, Major Heorhii Lysenko was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine... With the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the officer took a direct part in the defence of Kyiv. Then he performed combat and special tasks in Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions. He was killed in November 2022, drawing fire on himself to save the lives of his comrades. 13.10.23 08:01 8 367 0 Previously in trend: War

Russia launched major offensive on Avdiivka Another decisive battle of the war has begun. 11.10.23 17:07 21 937 27 Previously in trend: War

4 months of offensive: situation at front, analysis, conclusions What advantages did the Armed Forces have and why did not all of them "work". Why the Balakliya Offensive was successful. On the shortcomings of planning, the quality of the use of drones and the situation at the front. 08.10.23 12:00 22 825 38 Previously in trend: War

Yaryna Chornohuz: The military tired of phrase "I believe in the Armed Forces." She is hard to lose in a crowd. A thick ponytail of extended pigtails, a large backpack - a tall woman in khaki. Yaryna Chornohuz is a poet and a combat medic with a reconnaissance battalion of the Marines. She is rarely in Kyiv. She says so herself - she prefers to be "there". 02.10.23 09:10 23 609 109 Previously in trend: War

Brilliant victory of Ukrainian troops and defeat of Russians in battle for Andriivka 15 September will go down in history as a brilliant victory for Ukrainian troops and the defeat of the Russians in the battle for the village of Andriivka near Bakhmut that began in May this year. 16.09.23 09:30 17 276 15 Previously in trend: War

Breakthrough of drones The army of drones and its effective management will help destroy the enemy and save the lives of our defenders. However, it is not even the number of drones that is decisive, but their proper organisation, planning and support. 30.08.23 09:00 12 585 23 Previously in trend: War

Price of disorder in power is tens of thousands of lives President Zelensky said that we need a lot of drones. And Reintegration Minister Vereshchuk said that the war will last a long time. These things have long been obvious to everyone who is close to the war, but the leaders have only just begun to realise this. Although they said otherwise during the telethon for a long time. 16.08.23 09:00 23 230 97 Previously in trend: War

Wild Hornets: Ukraine’s Tiny Armor-Busting, Trench-Clearing Secret Weapon Fast, low-cost and multi-functional – Wild Hornet drones smash enemy tanks on the frontline. But fundraising is vital to keep supply up with demand. 09.07.23 12:06 794 0 Previously in trend: War

Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine In the trenches in the Donbas, infantrymen face unrelenting horrors, from missiles to grenades to helicopter fire. 16.06.23 11:23 227 0 Previously in trend: War

Ukraine’s Spring Offensive Comes With Immense Stakes for Future of War Without a decisive victory, Western support for Ukraine could weaken, and Kyiv could come under increasing pressure to enter serious peace talks to end or freeze the conflict. 26.04.23 15:30 12 377 0 Previously in trend: War

Russian General Staff analysis: problems of offensive of Russian troops in January 2023 By the end of December 2022, Russian occupiers had planned an offensive on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region. Further January attacks by the occupiers yielded no significant results, demonstrating the extremely low efficiency of the offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces. 17.03.23 08:25 21 221 30 Previously in trend: War

One of best combatants of Ukraine Armed Forces removed from his post for interview with Washington Post Commander of the 46th Airborne Battalion with the call sign "Kupol" has been fighting since 2014 and has brilliantly demonstrated himself after the Russian invasion. Kupol became the only staff military in the battalion, fully composed of reservists. Of the 500 fighters of the first composition, 100 were killed and almost 400 were injured. Kupol showed unpretentiousness and heroism, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. 16.03.23 15:05 37 610 181 Previously in trend: War

Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow The quality of the Ukrainian army, which was once considered a decisive advantage over Russia, has deteriorated over the year of losses that have taken many of the most experienced fighters off the battlefield, forcing some Ukrainian officials to question Kiev’s readiness for the long-awaited spring offensive. 16.03.23 13:40 33 337 92 Previously in trend: War

Alina Da Vinci: Dmytro always left me notes with words "Be strong." And I stay. And I will If what I write had any sense. If I could only imagine in life what was happening to us. I wouldn’t be able to accept it, actually, just like now. I just can’t. And I don’t accept it. 15.03.23 20:10 17 130 19 Previously in trend: War

Battle for Bakhmut: Are conclusions drawn after Debaltseve? I read that today the Supreme Commander’s Council decided to continue the defense of Bakhmut. Among the participants of the Council were generals who commanded the defense of Debaltseve, that is, as we are sure, they drew conclusions from that experience, and their decisions regarding the defense of Bakhmut will fully correspond to the real situation, because it is necessary to learn from one’s own mistakes, isn’t it? 06.03.23 18:40 9 987 23 Previously in trend: War

Aerial scout Hleb Zhavoronkov: "We need to saturate front with large number of inexpensive copters" If before the beginning of a full-scale war someone could not know about the abbreviation UAV, now the term "drones" is used by everyone, from toddlers of kindergarten age to very elderly people. "We need more of these things," my neighbor-pensioner, a regular spectator of the television marathon, authoritatively explained to me. "Because they are the eyes of the infantry. Otherwise, the Russians would buy those Kamikazes and shoot at us!" 05.03.23 10:30 10 813 14 Previously in trend: War

Kyiv in three days. Chronicle of lies of Russian propagandists 02/24/2022 On February 24, 2022, Ukrainians woke up to the sound of explosions. The Russian Federation had launched a full-scale invasion. The plan of the occupiers to "take Ukraine in 3 days" failed. Russian propagandists were in a frenzy, talking about a "parade in Kiev", a "cut-off exit to the sea" and a "quick capture of Kharkov". But they were met with heroic resistance from the Ukrainian people, who did not allow the "dreams" of the Russians to become a reality. 24.02.23 09:55 54 105 0 Previously in trend: War

Money in army My battalion in 2014 basically took nothing from volunteering. Strangely, but there is something in it. If you rely on volunteering, then our army will never be heard from supply and logistics problems. 20.02.23 16:55 12 551 0 Previously in trend: War

"What happened next blew my mind - we got nearly 130,000 AUD in like three or four months" - how two Australians helped hundreds of Ukrainians amidst the violent war David Russell is modest about his role in how Davaj Ukraine became a successful nonprofit NGO running humanitarian missions in Ukraine. But make no mistake: it was his and partner’s Roger Scott efforts that set the wheels in motion. 07.02.23 10:30 3 660 6 Previously in trend: War

Ryan Collins - American from the International Legion - There is not only one army in Ukraine. Without volunteers wouldn’t be possible anything With Ryan Collins, an American from Wyoming, we met on a hot summer day in Kyiv, where he arrived to get the new car for his squad from the volunteers. 06.09.22 10:00 13 951 13 Previously in trend: War

Ukraine seeks to establish a separate tribunal for high political and military leadership of Russia You might not have noticed this news, but it is an important one: last week, Ukraine announced the preparation for setting up an international tribunal that will investigate criminal acts committed during Russia's aggression against our country. The aim is to hold the higher political and military leadership of the Russian Federation accountable. 29.07.22 08:05 5 606 10 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

Ukraine may give English status of business language -prime minister The Ukrainian government is working on legislation that would designate English as the language of business communication, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said late on Monday. 07.06.22 14:53 640 0 Previously in trend: War

‘Ukraine will be free,’ Boris Johnson tells country’s parliament There should be no peace settlement imposed against the will of Ukrainian people, PM tells Verkhovna Rada 03.05.22 15:51 718 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence inflicted in Ukraine emerges Women and girls have recounted the abuse they have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers 05.04.22 12:02 1 420 0 Previously in trend: War

The dangerous tour: Ukraine’s top rock star takes music to the bunkers It must surely go down as one of the most dangerous rock tours in history. 25.03.22 18:32 1 105 0 Previously in trend: War

20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city's agony The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. 22.03.22 19:24 1 078 0 Previously in trend: Russia's attack at Mariupol War

The Game of Sanctions It has now become blindingly obvious that a sufficiently strong response to the russian aggression against Georgia would have prevented today’s war against Ukraine. 14.03.22 16:23 674 0 Previously in trend: War

‘We’ll fight to the end.’ Ukraine defiant in face of Vladimir Putin’s phoney war Kyiv’s middle-class professionals ready to take up arms again 18.01.22 18:23 676 0 Previously in trend: War

The Only Way To Deal With Russia Disintegration Of Russia Must Become Strategic Policy of International Community. 18.09.19 13:30 24 275 102 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

Russia used lessons from Georgia war in Ukraine conflict In the summer of 2008, Russia's army intervened militarily in an independent state for the first time since the Soviet Union's disastrous campaign in Afghanistan. 06.08.18 16:34 247 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

Archbishop: Russian invasion of Ukraine is a ‘silent war’ Speaking at the end of a closed-door meeting on religious freedom at the US Embassy to the Holy See, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Greek Catholic Ukrainian Church, stressed that "it is a matter of fact that the war in Ukraine has become a silent war." 19.06.18 15:32 2 326 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

In Ukraine, Putin’s words ring hollow as the war drags on On Tuesday, the guns fell silent along the front lines in eastern Ukraine. In a rare respite from violence for the nearly 4-year-old conflict, not a single cease-fire violation occurred during a 24-hour period. 29.01.18 09:38 2 882 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

The Case for Arming Ukraine The purpose of sending weapons to Kev would be to heighten the costs of continued conflict for the Kremlin. 09.08.17 17:24 260 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

What Happens if Russia Turns Up the Heat Again in Ukraine? Renowned Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer, who in June 2008 predicted Russia’s August 2008 assault on Georgia, warns that the general buildup of the Russian army could lead to an open Russian invasion into mainland Ukraine. 06.07.17 16:09 478 0 Previously in trend: War

Heroes of two wars Photographer Oleksandr Chekmenev made a photo series of heroes from two wars that affected Ukraine - the WWII and the current war in the Donbas. 10.05.17 11:14 38 252 8 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

Why We Continue to Misunderstand Putin’s War in Ukraine These underlying elements of Russian nationalism and national identity have shaped Putin’s thinking regarding Ukraine, and yet have been largely ignored by Western experts and policymakers. 25.04.17 17:49 185 0 Previously in trend: War

Truth and propaganda about war in Ukraine One of Putin's most potent forces in the various "hybrid wars" is disinformation, or the deliberate manipulation of media to create the big lie that masks his aggressive imperialistic ambitions and actions. 24.04.17 16:47 206 0 Previously in trend: War

Lithuanian volunteers help Ukraine fight the war with Russians. VIDEO "If we don't help stop the Russians in Ukraine, they will eventually come to get us too," Lithuanians say. And offer their helping hand to Ukrainians. 20.04.17 15:50 261 0 Previously in trend: War

In Ukraine, Russia Weaponizes Fake News to Fight a Real War Three years into the Russian aggression, Ukraine has experienced every Kremlin method and technique there is. 31.03.17 17:54 333 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

How trade blockade affected fighting in the Donbas To return the Donbas, we need to fight for it at all cost, genuinely, without ‘deals,’ so that the occupation stops benefiting Moscow, so that the occupation costs too much, both resources-wise and, most of all, human-wise. 16.03.17 17:50 96 554 125 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine Blockade of "DPR/LPR" War

‘We Have to Forgive Them’: Front Lines in Ukraine Divide Families and Friends TARAMCHUK, Ukraine -- The war is always there, even if the shooting stops for a while. 03.03.17 17:43 486 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine War

Healthier teeth, stronger fighters: meet Ukraine's frontline dentists Volunteers of Ukrop Dental are helping soldiers and civilians in region where aid is woefully lacking 21.02.17 15:54 121 0 Previously in trend: War