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One journalist was killed and three others wounded in the attack in Zaporozhye Region, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed Military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev examines letters sent to Russian soldiers on the front lines. ©  Sputnik / Konstantin Mihalchevskiy Ukraine used cluster munitions in the shelling of a group of Russian journalists in Zaporozhye Region, killing RIA Novosti news agency correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev, the Russian Defense Ministry has said. The attack, which targeted crews from RIA Novosti and Izvestia media outlets, took place at around noon, the ministry reported in a statement on Saturday. “As a result of the strike carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the use of cluster munitions, four journalists suffered i...

The man and his injured colleagues were gathering information for a report on Kiev’s use of cluster bombs, Russia says FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ©  Sputnik / Aleksey Danichev Ukrainian shelling that claimed the life of a Russian journalist and left several others injured was not a coincidence, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. Earlier the same day, a war correspondent from Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Rostislav Zhuravlev, was killed in an artillery strike in Zaporozhye Region.  The reporter, along with his colleagues, who also suffered injuries in the strike, was collecting information on Ukrainian cluster bomb strikes on settlements in the region, Zakharova explained. “Th...

Last week, Russia’s president said that Kiev had suffered enormous losses in pointless assaults Ukrainian soldiers take part in trench warfare exercises at a British Army military base in Northern England on June 2, 2023. ©  Paul ELLIS / AFP Ukraine’s Western backers are growing “alarmed” at the slow progress of its much-hyped counteroffensive against Russian forces, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. However, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has sought to allay those concerns, insisting that his country’s fortunes on the battlefield are about to change. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, Zelensky attempted to explain the problems with the counteroffensive – which Moscow says has failed to gain any ground – by pointing out tha...

More than 26,000 Ukrainian service members have been killed in action, the Russian president has said A destroyed Ukrainian tank in Kharkov Region. ©  Sputnik The Ukrainian military has failed in its long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russia, losing tens of thousands of service members in the process, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. On Sunday, Putin met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg, who said, citing US intelligence assessment, that the Ukrainian military has sustained 26,000 “irreplaceable losses.” “It’s more than that,” Putin replied. In addition to this, Russian forces have eliminated numerous foreign fighters in Ukraine, he said. “Foreign mercenaries… are also suffering significant ...

The Russian president discussed the record amount of Western hardware hit in Ukraine during his meeting with Alexander Lukashenko A US Bradley armored vehicle participates in a military drill. ©  AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE The Russian military has destroyed a record amount of Ukraine’s Western-supplied armor in the last 24 hours while repelling Kiev’s much-hyped counteroffensive, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday. The Russian leader delivered the remarks while speaking to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg. Lukashenko, citing his own data, said that Moscow’s forces had taken out at least 15 German-made Leopard tanks and over 20 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in just one clash. Putin appeared to agree with this assessm...