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2 months ago |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak |Julia Struck |Steve Brown
Kyiv Post has fact-checked The Sunday Telegraph’s report claiming NATO is frustrated with Ukraine’s battlefield tactics and weapons use. The article, which cites unnamed British defense sources, alleges that Ukraine’s armed forces (AFU) misuse Western-supplied arms and resist the adoption of NATO training.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
The Kremlin can’t evacuate troops and equipment from its only overseas base Tartus because Syria’s new rulers won’t let Russia’s five naval vessels enter the port, Tuesday news and shipping industry reports said.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
flipboard.com | Stefan Korshak
Malls aren’t what they used to be — and in one corridor of the 50-year-old Lebanon Valley Mall in south-Central Pennsylvania, the contrast between …
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Jan 14, 2025 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
I took a couple of weeks off for the holidays but the war sure didn’t. There have been all manner of interesting developments, so many that I’ll hold off on the latest tech jumps and Kursk, where things are happening but all in all the situation seems roughly stable.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
A little more than a week from taking over the reins of government, the incoming US senior leadership headed by President-elect Donald J. Trump had shifted messaging on ending the Russo-Ukraine War from a deal done within a day to several months at least – but faith that the New York real estate baron’s negotiating skills will solve everything fast is still solid.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
Russian armored columns and North Korean infantry have launched counterattacks against Ukrainian defenses at the northern tip of a salient carved out inside the Russian Federation, in the wake of a recent lurch by Kyiv’s troops a little closer to Moscow, official statement and battle reports said on Thursday. Ukraine, in August, invaded its giant northern neighbor Russia to carve out a Luxembourg-sized chunk of Russian territory in Russia’s Kursk region.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
Germany’s biggest arms manufacturer took another step towards an even weightier presence in Ukrainian arms production with the handover – precisely on time – of the very first Rheinmetall Lynx infantry fighting vehicle to be operated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Tuesday news reports led by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said. Both Ukrainian and German media on Tuesday reported the Lynx was the first of a total ten combat vehicles that the AFU would test on the battlefield.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
Ukrainian official sources said naval drones hit two high-value Russian air defense systems in the southern Kherson region on Monday, but had no immediate comment on speculation that the strikes used the rare tactic of launching kamikaze aircraft from a sea platform, not land. News reports said the strikes took place near the Kherson region village of Khorly, some 80-85 kilometers (50-53 miles) from the closest probable Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) drone launch sites on land.
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Jan 4, 2025 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
The little Ukrainian kamikaze drone ended its service life pretty much as its creators had hoped and planned it would – in a suicide attack against the thin rear armor of a Russian T-72 tank operating in the eastern Kharkiv sector in late November. A Defense Ministry spokesman said on Dec.
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Dec 31, 2024 |
kyivpost.com | Stefan Korshak
In a complex nighttime strike operation employing domestically developed jet-powered attack drones and Western precision-guided missiles, Ukrainian strike planners hit targets hundreds of kilometers apart inside the Russian Federation on Tuesday. They set an oil refinery on fire and – according to reports – damaged two military targets.