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Ukraine’s SBU security service said on Saturday it had uncovered a corruption scheme in the purchase of arms by the country’s military totalling the equivalent of about $40 million. The announcement of mass procurement fraud, confirmed by Ukraine’s Defense…

Skip next section Ukraine exposes military procurement corruption scheme 01/28/2024January 28, 2024 Ukraine exposes military procurement corruption scheme Ukrainian authorities uncovered corruption in the defense sector amounting to about $40 million (€37 million), Ukraine’s SBU security service said. The SBU…

A Russian “reconnaissance and sabotage group” shot dead two people – a brother and sister – in a Ukrainian village on Saturday during a cross-border incursion, local officials said. The attack in Andriivka occurred in Ukraine’s Sumy region inside a…

Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times/Redux A Ukrainian artillery crew fires on a Russian position in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, Jan. 13, 2024. Kyiv CNN  —  A series of comments by Ukrainian military officials and spokespeople on Saturday provided an…

A bit more from our interview with ex-Nato chief Lord Robertson now.  Earlier this week, the outgoing head of the British Army, General Sir Patrick Saunders, suggested British men and women could face a call-up to the army in the…

Zelenskyy in his address on 27 January. Photo: Office of the President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine managed to maintain international attention to its battle for independence over the course of January. Source: Zelenskyy’s evening address Quote: “As…

Photo: Vadym Filashkin’s Facebook The remains of five people, three of them members of the same family, have been pulled from under the rubble of a building destroyed during a Russian attack on 15 January in the settlement of New-York,…

An air-raid warning map as of 20:06 An air-raid warning was issued over most of Ukraine, including Kyiv, on the evening of 27 January, presumably because of ballistic missile launches. Source: Ukraine’s Air Force; alerts.in.ua; Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of…

Russia again bombarded its neighbour with missile and drone attacks in northern, central and southern Ukraine on Saturday night, hours after the Ukrainian military noted Moscow was doubling down on efforts to seize towns and villages. “Enemy drones have attacked…

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