Tag: USSR (Former Soviet Union)

Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky Takes Over at a Fraught Time for Ukraine’s Military

Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, who was appointed commander of the Ukrainian military on Thursday, led two successful counteroffensives in the war against Russia before his troops became bogged down in one of the most contentious and costly battles of the conflict. It was a strung-out, vicious spell of urban combat in the eastern city of Bakhmut […]

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Putin’s Drive to Rewrite History Snares a Retired Lithuanian Judge

When the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant last year for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, a Moscow court launched a surprise counterattack: It ordered the arrest of a 70-year-old retired judge in Lithuania. The judge, Kornelija Maceviciene, was not connected in any way to the case against Mr. Putin in The Hague […]

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What We Know About Israeli Hostages Hamas Released on Wednesday

Hamas freed a group of 10 Israeli hostages and four Thai nationals on Wednesday, the sixth such release of hostages since a cease-fire began on Friday. The group included a few relatives of people who had already been released. Here’s what we know about the Israeli hostages released on Wednesday. Ra’aya Rotem, 54 Ra’aya RotemCredit…Hostages […]

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Desperate for Air Defense, Ukraine Pushes U.S. for ‘Franken’ Weapons

With winter approaching, Ukrainian officials are desperate for more air defenses to protect their power grids from Russian strikes that could plunge the country into freezing darkness. So desperate, in fact, that they are willing to experiment with a monster of a weapons system that was the brainchild of Ukraine and is now being pursued […]

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Meet Vladimir Medinsky, Putin’s Ghostwriter

But who is he? Mr. Medinsky was born in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine in 1970. But he is not Ukrainian at all. His father was a military man and his childhood was spent traveling across the Soviet Union, from garrison to garrison. In this peripatetic environment, according to close acquaintances, Mr. Medinsky was brought […]

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