Military build-up Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Daily review: Russia deployed 75% of its troops against Ukraine; full-scale invasion ‘unlikely,’ risk of local attacks

Past 24 hours in the war zone Escalation and disinformation continue. On 19 February, Russian-controlled forces launched 136…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Russian troops massed around Ukraine now ready for ‘various offensive scenarios’: digital sleuths

Currently, the attention of the world community is riveted to the events in the Donbas, massive shellings of…

byVarious internet sources

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Daily review: Day of Unity; €1.2 bn loan to Ukraine; Israel torpedoes Iron Dome sale

Past 24 hours in the war zone On 15 February, Russian hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian…

byYuri Zoria

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Daily review: US sends more Javelins; US, UK, others urge their citizens to leave Ukraine, resultless Normandy talks

Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian hybrid forces launched eight attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk,…

byYuri Zoria

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Russian Aggression

How weapons from allies would help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion

Javelins on combat alert in Donbas Ukraine received its first Javelin man-portable anti-tank missiles from the US a…

byRadio Liberty

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Russia builds up troops near Ukraine for blackmailing, not invasion, ex-DNR hostage Stanislav Aseyev believes

Starting from 2015, Stanislav Aseyev worked for different media in his hometown of Donetsk, wring his op-eds mostly…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Daily review: US, NATO reject Russian demands; half of Ukrainians ready to join territorial defense

Past 24 hours in the war zone On 25 January, Russian-hybrid forces launched five attacks on Ukrainian positions…

byYuri Zoria

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Russia moving “significant parts” of its far-eastern military units towards Ukraine: digital sleuths

Read also: Military buildup registered at nearly half of Russian bases at Ukraine’s border in late 2021, satellite…

byYuri Zoria

russian delegation at geneva talks with US, 10.01.2022

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Russia downscales demands to keeping Ukraine, Georgia out of NATO

Commenting on the negotiation process with the US, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia was ready…

byYuri Zoria

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Daily review: Germany keeps blocking arms exports to Ukraine; Russia moves troops to Belarus; another false-flag warning

Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO reported one attack by Russian hybrid forces near Pisky, Donetsk…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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NATO and Russia agreed to talk more at Brussels talks

Read also: 58% Ukrainians support joining EU, 54% in favor of NATO, IRI Ukraine poll finds NATO Secretary-General…

byYuri Zoria

Dressed as Russia in a blood-stained outfit and holding a national flag, a woman chained herself to a Lenin statue in Novosibirsk, Russia to protest deteriorating human rights and increasing poverty. The large sign attached to the flag says: "I Am Dying." Three smaller signs hanging off the chain crisscrossing her body say: "Police," "Fear" and "Censorship." August 22, 2017 (Photo: Alyona Martynova / Sib.fm)

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Shuttering Memorial – part of Kremlin’s preparation for expanded war against Ukraine, Chubais says

The Kremlin almost certainly decided to move against Memorial now lest that human rights group serve as a…

byPaul A. Goble

daily review - christmas in ukraine, court freezes Poroshenko assets, latvia to send weapons to ukraine

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Daily review: Court freezes Poroshenko’s assets; Latvia to send weapons to Ukraine; Christmas in Ukraine

Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian-hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk,…

byYuri Zoria

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Daily review: Turkey “ready” to mediate Donbas talks; 200 Ukrainian military to get training in military colleges of 13 countries

Past 24 hours in the war zone Ukraine’s east On 30 December, Russian-hybrid forces launched four attacks on…

byYuri Zoria

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Russian Aggression

Russia’s military buildup on Ukraine’s border “on par” with that of April, say online sleuths

On 10 November, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US was concerned that Russia might…

byYuri Zoria

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Russia

Russia prepares for Zapad 2021, keeps heavy armed forces close to Ukraine

On June 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Moscow had withdrawn around 10,000 troops from the border…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian infantrymen riding on armor (Image: Taras Gren, MoD of Ukraine)

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Defense reform in Ukraine: The leadership challenge

The latest “National Security Strategy of Ukraine” was approved on September 14, 2020 (see EDM, September 24, 2020),…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Ukraine

Outreach to Putin, crackdown on Medvedchuk: A hard stretch for Zelenskyy

At the same time, however, Zelenskyy persists with his quest to meet personally with Putin in order to…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Russian Aggression

Russia’s Armed Forces test combat readiness close to Ukraine’s border

On April 30, Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff, said the exercises involved over…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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New reservists law in Ukraine: A forced step forward

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the reserve system reforms introduce a number of key changes (Army Inform,…

byThe Jamestown Foundation