Ukraine

On August 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a provocative post stating: “You’ll be in for a freeze this winter.”

The ashes of Yevhen Konovalets, a colonel in the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, commander of the Sich Riflemen, and first chairman of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, were brought to the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv. Currently, the coffin containing Konovalets’ remains is in the cathedral.

In the Polish capital, a Ukrainian woman was injured during a confrontation with a group of Polish adults. They allegedly reacted negatively to her Ukrainian accent and knocked out two of her front teeth. 

In Ukraine, the first jet-powered interceptor drones, designed to counter a new threat—jet-powered “shahids”—are undergoing combat testing.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia will not stop at the front lines, but will make its own methods of combat “much tougher in order to destroy everything that fuels Kyiv’s war machine from the West.”

In light of the statement by Valery Zaluzhnyy, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, regarding the futility of Ukraine’s accession to NATO, the question arises: Are there any real alternatives to the Alliance?

Russia has changed its airstrike tactics and has recently been targeting primarily Ukrainian logistics hubs. In particular, Russia is attempting to destroy warehouses and sorting centers belonging to companies such as "Nova Poshta," Rozetka, and "Epicenter." The Russians claim that this is their alleged response to Ukrainian strikes on warehouses belonging to the Russian marketplace Wildberries. To find out who is inflicting more damage on whom, read the article by “Shelter.”

Photojournalist Yefrem Lukatsky on how he witnessed a conversation between Ukraine’s second president, Leonid Kuchma (who served as president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005) with Chinese leader Jiang Zemin (who served as president of the People’s Republic of China from 1993 to 2003) about nuclear weapons.

Photojournalist Yefrem Lukatsky revealed details as a witness to what happened to Viktor Yushchenko following his poisoning in 2004—during the Ukrainian presidential election.

The Military Counterintelligence Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine, under the personal coordination of SSU Director Oleksandr Poklad, neutralized a large-scale network of Russian military intelligence agents.