on Google
According to the Deputy Police Chief of Kharkiv Oblast Serhii Bolvinov, during the occupation of the city of Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, Russians were holding at least 40 people captive at the same time. "According to witnesses, they were tortured in different ways," Bolvinov said, adding that the "easiest" torture was with an electric shock. According to Bolvinov, Russians were searching for Ukrainian war veterans and volunteers who helped the Ukrainian army.
Most Popular
Ukraine launches one of its largest drone attacks on Moscow Oblast, damaging Wildberries warehouse
Poland will soon have Europe's largest army, Tusk pledges
Chief economist at key Russian state development bank reportedly fired after warning of economic defeat to West
Russia threatens 'serious damage' to relations with US, Turkey over weapons shipment to Ukraine
Analysis: Russia doubles down, setting stage for new phase of total war
News Feed Show More
Tuesday, August 18
At around 7:45 p.m. local time, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said debris from Russian drones had been reported at two locations in the Dniprovskyi district.
(Updated: )
"London's actions will inevitably carry consequences for which it will have to answer," the Russian Embassy to the U.K. said.
Arsen Zhumadilov, the director of the Defense Ministry's Defense Procurement Agency, is set to resign in the coming weeks, the Ukrainian media outlet ZN.UA reported, citing its sources.
"The risks we identified at the time have not miraculously vanished. But we have no fundamental objection to this money being used to support the Ukrainian cause," said Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot.
A court in St. Petersburg has issued the city's first fine to a local resident over a video posted online following a Ukrainian drone attack on the city
(Updated: )
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that at least 180 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Moscow Oblast during the attack, with over 600 claimed to have been launched at the region.
(Updated: )
Zelensky also nominated Andrii Sybiha to again take up the post of foreign minister.
The Stuttgart court sentenced the man to one year and three months in prison, but ruled that his pre-trial detention would count toward the sentence, meaning he will now be released.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained a suspected Russian agent in Kharkiv Oblast who allegedly registered 27 Starlink terminals in the front-line city of Izium to coordinate Russian troops and drone strikes.
"Along with him, Ukraine has brought back a part of itself: its memory, its Ukrainian experience, and our national history — the history of all those who, at different times, lived and fought for Ukraine, for our independence, and for our sovereign state," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
(Updated: )
Russia's security service (FSB) blackmailed prominent Ukrainian volunteer Mykhailo Puryshev into cooperation, threatening to conscript his son into the Russian army, he claimed on Aug. 17.
According to Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, 62 of his country's citizens have been killed in Ukraine, and 15 remain missing.
