33 Years Ago Today – How Ukraine Reaffirmed Its Independence. On Aug. 24, 1991, in the wake of a failed putsch in Moscow, the then still Soviet Ukrainian parliament declared Ukraine’s independence. Here’s the intricate story of how it happened. Jubilant patriotic lawmakers carry the hitherto banned blue and yellow Ukrainian national flag ...
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Ukrainian Culture. The fundamental basis for the whole Ukrainian culture is folk culture and, on its ground, professional art, literature and science was gradually developed. The true creators and carriers of culture were the large layers of society - peasants, Cossacks, artisans. A great place was occupied by folklore, folk traditions, which ...
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To date, Ukraine’s Air Force has admitted the loss of one F-16 in combat. According to reports, during a Russian missile and drone attack against civilian targets in deep north-west Ukraine on Aug. 28 a fighter piloted by Oleksii Mes crashed and burned. An Air Force investigation into the incident is still ongoing.
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Germany's Baerbock Offers Ukraine No Guarantees as Kyiv Sounds Alarm. Zelensky said Monday that Kyiv believed 11,000 North Korean troops had reached the Kursk border region in Russia, with the West repeatedly warning they could be sent into combat within days. By AFP.
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Ukraine War Casualties. COPY LINK. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense reported that it has certified more than 140 new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and 33 unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) for military use in the first nine months of the year. This compares with the figures for 2023 when around 60 UAVs and nine UGVs were approved.
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Ukraine won't be able to achieve a military victory and NATO s not willing to deploy its troops to support it. In the current situation Stoltenberg's proposal is the least unrealistic idea to pave the way for Ukraine to join NATO. It would give four-fifths of Ukraine the chance to move forward. It's up to Ukraine to decide the terms of the negotiations, but at least a direction has been ...
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Zelensky warned that there were already around 3,000 North Korean soldiers on Russian territory, and another 9,000 expected briefly. “We think that they will have 12,000 soon,” Zelensky said at a press conference in Iceland on Monday, AFP reported. His chief of staff, Andriy Yermak added on social media, “This is an escalation.
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In the temporarily occupied Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine’s military intelligence , in collaboration with the local resistance movement, conducted a successful special operation, resulting in the destruction of a railway bridge, Kyiv Post sources in intelligence community report. This bridge was used by Russian troops to transport ...
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Orbán stated recent events confirm his belief from his July visits to Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing that “Ukraine is losing the war.” According to the officer, the coordinated actions of the Ukrainian infantrymen and aerial reconnaissance successfully stopped the Russian advance along the trench system and eliminated two Russian soldiers in close combat.
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