Blog — Michael Bociurkiw

WAR IN UKRAINE: September 15, 2022

Ukrainian officials say they are targeting towns in the eastern Donbas region after making a series of gains in a rapid counter-offensive. Meanwhile a Ukrainian official says his country will need billions of dollars in budget support for an indefinite period.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 13, 2022

Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said there were so many prisoners of war that the country was running out of space to accommodate them.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 8, 2022

US officials said Ukraine was making "slow but meaningful progress" against Russian forces - while Ukraine's President Zelensky said he has "good news", claiming the recapture of several settlements from Russia.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 5, 2022

British military intelligence said Saturday that Ukraine’s advance on three fronts was likely to have “achieved a degree of tactical surprise; exploiting poor logistics, administration and leadership in the Russian armed forces.” Meanwhile, the Kremlin is offering Russian railway workers enticing bonuses to fight in the war in Ukraine.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 21, 2022

The Russian president reportedly agrees to allow international inspectors onto occupied territory at the Zaporizhzhiya nuclear power plant. More explosions in Russian occupied Crimea.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 14, 2022

Ukrainian forces appear closer than ever to encircling occupied Kherson and regaining the key city in the right bank of the Dnipro River. An ammunition dump is said to have been hit by the Ukrainians.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: August 13, 2022

Blasts at a Russian-operated airfield in Crimea this week have "significantly degraded" its navy's Black Sea fleet. Several expert sources say the strike was performed by Ukrainian special forces

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WAR IN UKRAINE: Aug 6, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for talks expected to focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Russian forces at Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine are employing "terror tactics" by using the site to launch rocket attacks on civilians. Amid calls for her resignation, Canada’s foreign affairs minister has denied Ottawa abandoned its Ukrainian staff in Kyiv in the run-up to Russia’s invasion.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: JULY 30, 2022

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise visit to Odesa Oblast today, with G7 ambassadors in tow, to supervise what appeared to be the loading of grain onto a Turkish flagged cargo ship. The movement was a result of an agreement brokered by the UN and Turkey to get desperately needed Ukraine grain to world markets

WAR IN UKRAINE: July 12, 2022

Russian troops continued shelling several Ukrainian regions on Monday, killing six people and injuring 31 in Kharkiv. Meanwhile, the death toll from Sunday's Russian rocket attack on a five-storey apartment block in eastern Ukraine rose to 30.

WAR IN UKRAINE: June 28, 2022

The death toll from a Russian rocket attack on a shopping mall in central Ukraine has risen to 16, and at least 59 injured. The G7 leaders have condemned the attack as a war crime.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: June 27, 2022

As G7 leaders meet in Germany pledging to continue to back Ukraine, the chances of Russian President Putin heeding their calls for restraint are highly unlikely.

WAR IN UKRAINE: June 26, 2022

Fresh Russian missile strikes on Kyiv today, demonstrating once again that not one inch of Ukraine can be considered safe until the country has the ability to control its skies