Eastern Europe
War in Ukraine
According to a Ministry of Defense official, new recruitment efforts are getting a huge response, with over 11,000 people applying to 1,000 vacancies in one week.
Mar. 26
Ukraine
Zelensky appointed Oleksandr Lytvynenko, the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, to replace Oleksiy Danilov as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
Mar. 26
Estonia
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the USSR led Western countries to largely forget Plato’s dictum that he who “desires peace must prepare for war,” that may soon have to change.
Mar. 26
Moscow
Two weeks after the US Embassy in Moscow warned of an anticipated terrorist attack a gun and explosives assault took place on the evening of Friday, March 22.
Mar. 22
US
Roman Grishchuk, co-head of the Verkhovna Rada group on parliamentary relations with Turkey, spoke to Kyiv Post on Ankara’s peace efforts and its relationship with Kyiv during the full-scale war.
Mar. 22
Ukraine
The Dnipro Hydroelectric Station “was hit eight times,” said Yury Belousov, head of the Prosecutor General's war crimes department on Ukrainian TV.
Mar. 22
Ukraine needs more soldiers, but Russian propaganda, high casualties, and systemic issues stoke fears about signing up, while bad statistics and political reluctance are only exacerbating the problem.
Mar. 21
Kyiv Post sources in HUR confirmed that nearly all of the cruise and ballistic missiles targeting Kyiv Thursday morning were aimed at the HUR facilities of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Mar. 21
Budanov
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence comments echoed earlier reports that Moscow was using commercial satellite imagery to coordinate its strikes on Ukraine.
Mar. 21
NATO
While NATO has conducted monitoring and surveillance missions for decades, with increased attention over the Black Sea since February 2022, recent weeks show a spike that peaked sharply on Wednesday.
Mar. 21
Poland
Erstwhile moderate Dmitry Medvedev outdoes himself with another of his twisted commentaries on the likely outcome of a French “interventionist contingent” coming to Ukraine.
Mar. 20
Drones
Comments by troops fighting on the Dnipro left bank agree with the view of analysts that masses of UAVs make movement dangerous for both Ukrainian and Russian forces.
Mar. 20
Putin
Putin opponents gathered in Kyiv this week to discuss future action after Putin’s sham election.
Mar. 19
Tanks
Among the Russian military equipment destroyed by the Ukrainian Special Operations attack were two self-propelled artillery pieces and two towed howitzers.
Mar. 19
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The RU foreign minister has made more threats against Ukraine and allies for allowing the use of ATACMS and other US-made long-range weapons to strike inside Russia after months of lobbying by Kyiv.
Nov. 18