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Stay on top of Russia-Ukraine war 10-05-2024 developments on the ground with KyivPost fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated war maps.
The Victory Plan is part of a global strategy to end the war, restore stability, and achieve peace on fair terms. The plan would protect Ukraine from aggression and strengthen its future security.
On Sept. 26, President Zelensky presented his Victory Plan for Ukraine to US President Biden. While little is known about its specifics, a lot can be presumed. After all, Ukraine has for years been telling us what it needs to succeed.
The aim
President Zelensky said he would attend the 25th Ramstein meeting in Germany next week in person, along with leaders of nations allied with Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he would attend an international meeting to discuss military support for Ukraine to be held in Germany next week.
The military meeting at the US air base at Ramstein near Frankfurt is expected to bring together more than 50 of Ukraine’s allies, including US President Joe Biden.
Officials say the SBU has initiated criminal investigations into the Russian Armed Forces troop violations of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder.
Law enforcement has credible evidence that the Russian invasion forces have executed at least 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Ukrinform reports that Yurii Belousov, head of the War Department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, spoke on the air on the national telethon.
Despite the extraordinary risks, dedicated photographers have set out to bear witness and capture the war’s impacts. In the process, they have been changed.
Since 2022, their stark and confronting images have filled our feeds. Through the lenses and cameras of their profession, the world has seen the often-horrific impact – destroyed schools and hospitals, devastated settlements, and disfigured bodies – of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine.
But who they actually are and what they themselves have experienced in documenting the 21st century’s largest war is generally unseen and unheard.
Latest from the British Defence Intelligence.
The mass execution of POWs in Olenivka more than two years ago is another piece of evidence showing the scale of Russian war crimes. Ukraine must remember its heroes and remind the world of them.
Survivors of a Russian Armed Forces mass execution of Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol taken prisoners of war, along with their family and friends, have been fighting to establish a day memorializing their sacrifice and the sacrifice of others victimized by these war crimes, set on the date of the Olenivka Prison Massacre.
On the night of July 28-29, 2022, the Russians carried out the most massive execution of prisoners of war (POW) known to us during the full-scale war. Around 50 POWs were killed and about 130 more were injured in Olenivka. These people defended Mariupol from Feb. 24 until May 16, 2022. From May 16 to May 20, 2022, following the orders of Ukraine’s top leadership and under certain agreements, they left Azovstal and surrendered into captivity.
Moscow regularly sentences people it accuses of working for Ukraine or of criticizing Russia’s invasion of February 2022 (full-scale) or 2014 (Crimea and Donbas).
Russia on Friday sentenced a Crimean man to 14 years in a penal colony on treason charges after it accused him of aiding the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU).
Moscow regularly sentences people in Crimea it accuses of working for Ukraine or of criticizing Russia’s military offensive and has orchestrated a massive crackdown.
The State Emergency Services pyrotechnic units respond to safeguard Ukrainians in the aftermath of every Russian attack. Over 4,000 of these explosives are aerial bombs.
Pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) have removed and disposed of over 533,200 pieces of explosive ordnance since Feb. 24, 2022.
This was reported by the press service of the SES of Ukraine, according to Ukrinform.
President Zelensky visited Ukrainian troops fighting in counter-invasion force inside Russia during visit to the Sumy border region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he had visited the Sumy region and met soldiers fighting in the offensive across the border in Russia’s Kursk region.
“Today I started my trip to Sumy region with a meeting with our soldiers -- the guys who are fighting in Kursk region, defending our border regions and the whole country,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
With Putin’s war of aggression approaching its third anniversary, the financial, technological, and demographic hurdles facing the Russian economy are more severe than is commonly understood.
Since 2014, and especially since 2022, Russia’s economy has been subjected to severe international sanctions. Yet assessments of their impact vary greatly. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his cronies boast that the sanctions make Russia stronger, but they incessantly call for all restrictions to be lifted. At the same time, many claim that the sanctions have had little impact, while others argue that this is because the sanctions are too timid.
My own view is that the current sanctions regime shaves off 2-3% of GDP each year, condemning Russia to near stagnation. Moreover, the situation will get only worse for Putin, perhaps even impeding his campaign of aggression against Ukraine.
Having traveled to over 150 countries, why did the “world’s most traveled man” choose to make Ukraine home? And what travel tips can he impart with his fellow travelers?
Recognized as “the world’s most traveled man,” Fred Finn flew “more than 15 million miles around the globe,” a feat that led to him becoming the holder of the “Guinness World Record for the most flights on Concorde – 718 in total.” A record that will not be beaten since the Concorde jet was retired in 2003.
Having never “set out to break any records,” Finn says his travel peaked with crisscrossing the Atlantic, “once a week for four years” on the famed Concorde jet, an aircraft about which Finn still speaks glowingly.
The central bank, ministries of Economy and Finance are developing a state war insurance agency that would create war insurance products, manage the existing ones and help set market rules.
Ukraine’s central bank, the National Bank of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Finance presented the draft Law of Ukraine "On the System of Military Risk Insurance” to the business community. Ukraine plans to continue these consultations until December 2024 and then pass the bill to the parliament’s relevant committee.
Apart from generalizing rules on how the war insurance market will operate in Ukraine, the bill will also create the State Agency for War Risk Insurance, the Ministry of Economy reported on their website.
The designer claimed that the secret project to replace existing Orlan drones began before the February 2022 full-scale invasion but slowed due to ongoing operational needs.
Russian media reports that Moscow has been working on new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to replace their Orlan-10 and Orlan-30 reconnaissance aircraft on the battlefield.
This information was released by Roman Ivanov, chief designer of the Russian “Special Technology Center.” Ivanov did not disclose specific details about the project, which is believed to be still in its early stages.
The Novosibirsk FSB office was set on fire when Molotov cocktails were thrown through a window in another example of growing resistance to the Kremlin, Ukraine's military intelligence says.
In the Russian city of Novosibirsk, more than 3,500 kilometers (2,190 miles) from the Ukrainian border, the regional office of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was set on fire, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) reported on Friday, Oct. 4. It said a flammable mixture was thrown into the FSB building's window and ignited on Thursday, Oct. 3.
The footage, accompanied by cool music, shows an unidentified man dressed entirely in black clothes approaching the FSB office at night. Later, he begins to break the glass of a window on the first floor, after which he throws a package through the broken window and sets it on fire.
