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Stay on top of Russia-Ukraine war 02-02-2024 developments on the ground with KyivPost fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated war maps.
Earlier this week for nearly four hours, some of the Russia's biggest websites, including its main search engine, Yandex, went offline. Possible reason: Putin’s push for Russia’s “sovereign internet."
In a preliminary ruling in March 2022, the ICJ sided with Ukraine and ordered Russia to halt its invasion immediately.
The United Nations' top court said Friday it had jurisdiction to rule in most parts of a case brought by Ukraine over Russia's brutal 2022 invasion, with Kyiv urging reparations.
Ukraine dragged Russia before the International Court of Justice only a few days after the invasion, seeking to battle its neighbour on all fronts, legal as well as diplomatic and military.
According to a German journalist, Mariupol is “functioning,” and the city already is allegedly rebuilding schools, residential buildings, and entire neighborhoods.
The exiled mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, has condemned a report by the German TV channel ZDF about life in his city during the Russian occupation.
“The Russian occupiers are trying to use any Western journalists to show the ‘revival’ of Mariupol,” Boychenko reported on Telegram.
Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate confirmed that Russian missile boat was sunk by six direct hits by naval drones.
Ukraine used MAGURA V5 multi-purpose unmanned surface vessels (USV) to sink a Russian missile boat earlier this week, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR), has revealed.
Kyrylo Budanov told The War Zone that “six direct hits by naval drones were made to the hull of the ship,” adding: “As a result of the damage, the ship rolled astern and sank.”
Atesh partisans told Kyiv Post about the dangers of their mission, risking arrest and worse, given the high-value of these assets carefully guarded by Russian occupiers.
Partisans of the Atesh movement told Kyiv Post that they risk arrest and worse for their operations against Russian forces on occupied Ukrainian lands and sometimes inside Russia.
Recently they conducted a comprehensive reconnaissance of the Saky airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea, revealing the exact number of aircraft stationed there.
Russian commanders had big hopes for tank-tipped assault and backed it with smoke trucks, air strikes and heavy flame throwers. Cheap Ukrainian kamikaze drones cut the attack to pieces.
Top Moscow propagandist Vladimir Solovyev in a Thursday evening broadcast demanded that Russian military bloggers responsible for making public video of a recent Russian tank assault’s near-total annihilation by Ukrainian drones and criticizing army leadership for allowing the battlefield disaster to happen be “destroyed – just eliminated.”
As anchorman on a nightly news program aired nationwide on the Kremlin-controlled Russia-1 television channel, Solovyev is the highest-profile advocate of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its elimination as an independent state.
Romania’s chief general calls on European countries to start preparing their people for war with Russia, warning that Putin will begin an escalation in the near future.
Romania’s Chief of the Defense Staff, Lt. Gen. Vlad Gheorghita, expects an escalation from Russia and warned the European community, including Romania, to prepare for the possible spread of Russian aggression outside Ukraine, he said in an interview with his nation’s Radio Liberty service.
Gheorghita said that Russia “has become a problem for the world order and for democracy” and is waging war not just with Ukraine, but “with the democratic world.”
Washington’s “circular swap” scheme - where new weapons are provided to replace a nation’s old weapons, if it gives them to Ukraine – hasn’t gone down well in the Kremlin.
Russia's foreign ministry has condemned Joe Biden’s plan to compensate the release by Ecuador of Soviet-era weapons, which would then be sent to Ukraine, in exchange for new US military equipment worth $200 million.
“Such a reckless decision was taken by the Ecuadorian side under serious pressure from outside interested parties,” spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova said in comments reported by Reuters.
Ukrainian police said they had died as a result of a drone attack in what Macron called a “cowardly and outrageous act.”
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Friday that two French aid workers had been killed in a Russian strike in Ukraine and condemned the attack as “outrageous”.
Ukranian officials said the two men died in a recent drone attack in southern Ukraine.
Lieutenant General Alexander Tatarenko was in overall charge of the Belbek air base, the most-developed and best-defended air force base in the Black Sea region.
A Ukrainian air strike on a Russian air base in occupied Crimea killed a top General and ten other servicemen, Russian media has reported.
Lieutenant General Alexander Tatarenko died in an attack on the Belbek air base on Wednesday, according to the Crimean Wind Telegram channel.
The Swiss-based company Destinus, best known for designing hypersonic rocket-propelled aircraft, has opened up to the French business magazine Challenges about its support to Ukraine’s military.
Russian dissident Mikhail Kokorich revealed in an interview with the French business magazine Challenges, published on Jan. 30, that his Swiss-based company Destinus had been secretly working on military drones in parallel with its commercial work and providing drones to the Ukrainian armed forces for almost a year.
The 47-year-old Kokorich said that Destinus is “already among the main drone producers in Europe” and “Ukraine is one of our main customers.”
January’s annual meeting of the 54th World Economic Forum highlighted the potential use of technological innovation and international collaboration to bring post-war prosperity to Ukraine.
The recent annual World Economic Forum (WEF) took place in Davos, Switzerland, bringing together world leaders, international media representatives, and activists. The main theme, “rebuilding trust,” was particularly relevant given the fragility of current geopolitics, especially in Ukraine.
From January 15 to 19, the Forum held deep discussions on various topics, including the war between Russia and Ukraine. Additionally, the role of innovative technologies in the contemporary tumultuous and dangerous world was discussed, along with considerations on how nations can collaborate and move towards a more interconnected world.
The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.
Leaders from the European Union unanimously agreed to a four-year 50-billion-euro aid package for Ukraine as Hungary, which vetoed the deal in December, fell into line with the other 26 member states, ending weeks of wrangling over the move - RFE/RL
Hungary's Viktor Orban said on Friday that he "went to the wall" for his country before agreeing to an EU deal on Thursday to extend new aid to Ukraine and that he averted the risk of losing EU funds earmarked for Budapest from the bloc's joint coffers - Reuters
The energy provider Ukrenergo said one of its substations in the city – President Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town – was damaged during the attack on Friday.
More than 100 miners trapped underground after a Russian drone strike caused a power outage in Kryvyi Rih have been rescued, authorities have said.
Ukraine said Friday that tens of thousands of people were without power after a barrage of two dozen Russian drones damaged energy infrastructure in the centre of the country.
Ukraine's army chief shares his vision for a new strategy against Russia. Acknowledging Ukraine's disadvantage in weapons and manpower, he suggests focusing on boosting drone production and usage.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, published a column on Thursday, Feb. 1, on CNN's website.
In it, he shares his vision for a new strategy against Russia. Acknowledging Ukraine's disadvantage in weapons and manpower, he suggests focusing on boosting drone production and usage.
Senators have been negotiating for months on a deal to combat illegal immigration,with Republicans insisting on increased border security in return for approving a White House request for Ukraine aid.
The US Senate will vote next week on a border security package that would unlock vital aid for Ukraine, Democrats announced Thursday, as President Joe Biden hailed a $54 billion package approved by the war-torn nation’s European allies.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader of the upper chamber of Congress, said an initial vote on the bipartisan bill would take place on Wednesday at the latest -- although its prospects for being signed into law look vanishingly small.
In footage released by the Ukrainian Military the drone guides the Russian soldier to a point where he could surrender to the Kyiv’s soldiers.
The West operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) released a video on Telegram with the intriguing caption "A MAVIC drone captured a Russian soldier."
"The future has already arrived. Now our drones are capturing Russian soldiers," read the video's caption.
Ukraine dragged Russia before the International Court of Justice only a few days after the invasion, seeking to battle its neighbour on all fronts, legal as well as diplomatic and military.
The United Nations' top court will decide on Friday whether it has jurisdiction to rule in a case brought by Ukraine over Russia's brutal 2022 invasion, with Kyiv urging reparations.
Ukraine dragged Russia before the International Court of Justice only a few days after the invasion, seeking to battle its belligerent neighbour on all fronts, legal as well as diplomatic and military.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
Key Takeaways from the ISW:
Senate to talk Kyiv aid next week but Trump supporters vow block; Zelensky thanks EU for $54Bn in aid; Russian troops make gains around Donetsk region, while Ukraine succeeds in western Zaporizhzhia.
Overview:
US Senate announces vote on border/Kyiv, House Republicans say it’s dead on arrival
Hungary’s prime minister got what he wanted from Brussels, and now ‘Orban fatigue’ has set in.
It took months of negotiations and headaches, €10 billion in funds released to Budapest, fancy lunches with French and Italian politicians, threats to kick Hungary out of the union, and then concessions to annually review military assistance to Kyiv for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban finally to agree to the €50 billion EU aid package to Ukraine.
Now, weary European leaders are letting him have it.
