The powerful earthquake and aftershocks sent people racing from their beds into the streets – and toppled buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. More than 2,000 people are now confirmed to have died and the toll is expected to rise as rescuers struggled yesterday (Saturday, September 9) to…
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Russian kamikaze drone ‘explodes on NATO territory’
claims a kamikaze drone has landed on the territory of Romania – a member. Kyiv’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko has said an -made Shahed drone detonated on Romanian soil during a mass attack by Russia on the Danube River port of Izmail in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, overnight. “This is further confirmation that Russian…
Ukraine making ‘notable progress’ in counteroffensive against Russia
Ukrainian soldiers have made “notable progress” in their counteroffensive against Russia over that last 72 hours. That is according to a leading US security official who says troops have broken through Russia’s first line of defence. Speaking in Washington, White House security council spokesman John Kirby said the US had “noted over the last 72…
Belarus could be paying Wagner bill, claims MoD
Since the military organisation’s brief mutiny against the Kremlin in June, the “Russian state has acted against some other business interests of Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin”, said the Ministry of Defence yesterday. In an intelligence update, it added: “There is a realistic possibility that the Kremlin no longer funds the group. If the Russian state…
Ukrainian children duck and scream as Russian missile strikes
Horrific footage showed the moment children screamed in fear and ran when a missile hit a hotel. Two of Moscow’s Iskander missiles hit the Reikartz Hotel in Zaporizhzhia city center on Thursday evening. One died and 16 were left injured, including four children, from the attack on the hotel on the bank of the Dnipro…
Kremlin humiliated as scammers trick Russians into arson attacks on army offices
Unsuspecting Russians have been deceived into committing arson attacks on military enlistment offices scattered across Russia, according to Ukranian reports. The first incident came to light in St Petersburg on the evening of July 31, where a 53-year-old man was seen throwing Molotov cocktails at the entrance of the military commissariat department on Tchaikovsky Street.…