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☆ Ukraine war: With a surprise cross-border attack, Russia ruthlessly exposes Ukraine’s weaknesses
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Analysis Tim Lister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The town of Vovchansk in the northern Kharkiv region, liberated from Russian occupation more than 18 months ago, awoke Friday to intense shelling and aerial bombardment. As of Saturday, it appeared the Russians still held a handful of Ukrainian border villages, with intense aerial bombardment continuing in the Vovchansk area. Barros says that it is instead to compel Ukrainian forces to pivot from Donetsk to Kharkiv region. Gunners fire at Russian positions in the Kharkiv region on April 21. In Krasnohorivka, for example, Ukrainian units were able for months to use apartment buildings and a brick factory as defensive positions.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Vadym Skibitsky, George Barros, Sever, “, ” Barros, Anatolii Stepanov, Barros, exacerbates, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Zelensky, Chasiv, Chasiv Yar, Skibitsky, Stanislav, ”, that’s Organizations: CNN, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, Institute for, ” Gunners, Getty, Manpower, Reuters, Gunners, Kharkiv, United States, Zelensky Locations: Vovchansk, Kharkiv, Russia, Donetsk, Ukraine, North, Washington, “ Russia, Ukrainian, AFP, Sumy, Donetsk oblast, Belgorod, Russian, Chasiv Yar, Chasiv, ”, Kreminna, Kharkiv oblast

☆ Dozens of former employees plan to sue Bowlero alleging discrimination after EEOC closes case, lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Gabrielle Fonrouge | In Gabrielle-Fonrouge | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

During the company's earnings call with Wall Street analysts later Monday, executives said that the EEOC investigation was now behind them and would no longer be a distraction. "Because of limited resources, we cannot file a lawsuit in every case where we find discrimination," the EEOC explains on its website. It's unclear if the question of whether to sue Bowlero made it to a vote with the EEOC's commissioners. He told CNBC he plans to sue Bowlero for $80 million, plus legal fees. In response, Bowlero's attorneys Alex Spiro and Hope Skibitsky at law firm Quinn Emanuel said they "are pleased with the outcome of the EEOC investigation."

Persons: Bowlero, Thomas Shannon, Robert Lavan, there's, it's, Daniel Dowe, EEOC, Dowe, Alex Spiro, Hope Skibitsky, Quinn Emanuel, Thomas Tanase, Tanase's, didn't Organizations: U.S, Commission, CNBC, AMF, Lucky, Wall Street, Bowlero Locations: North America, Virginia

☆ It's likely only a matter of time until Russia captures a key town in Ukraine, intel chief says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ukraine is likely to lose the key eastern town of Chasiv Yar to Russia, a top intelligence official said. AdvertisementUkraine likely faces the approaching loss of a key eastern town to Russia, one of the country's top intelligence officials said. Much of the town in question, Chasiv Yar, is little more than rubble after more than a year of bombardment. BAKHMUT, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 27: An aerial view of the city of Bakhmut totally destroyed from heavy battles on September 27, 2023 in Bakhmut, Ukraine. AdvertisementWhile Chasiv Yar holds, Russia has carved a salient about 25 miles to the southwest in the village of Ocheretyne.

Persons: Chasiv Yar, Chasiv, —, Vadym Skibitsky, Bakhmut, Serhiy Hrabsky, Vladimir Putin's, Skibitsky, Avdiivka, Putin Organizations: Service, Ukraine Patrol Police, AP, Russia, New York Times, Russian, Ukrainian, Libkos, Pentagon, Economist Locations: Ukraine, Chasiv, Russia, Donetsk, Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut, Luhansk, BAKHMUT, UKRAINE, Ocheretyne, Russian, Beijing

☆ Russia has tried to break Ukraine’s energy grid. This winter, Ukrainians are prepared for the worst
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Victoria Butenko | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

When Russia pounded Ukraine’s power grid with widespread and repeated waves of airstrikes last year, causing massive rolling blackouts, his wife had just given birth to their second daughter. As families like Gindyuk’s gird themselves for the possibility of another dark winter, Ukraine has been rushing to rebuild and protect its fragile energy infrastructure. The summer provided a respite for Ukraine’s power grid. “Ukraine’s power system continues to operate in an emergency mode, which affects both power grids and generation,” a news release accompanying the report said. Physical barriers have been erected around Ukraine’s high-voltage electricity transmission network, which is operated by the national energy company Ukrenergo .

Persons: Ukraine CNN — Oleksandr Gindyuk, Gindyuk, ” Gindyuk, Gindyuk’s, Vadym, “, ” DTEK, ”, Maxim Timchenko, ” Timchenko, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, Ukrenergo, ” Kudrytskyi, Oleksandr Prokhorenko, Kateryna, Varvara, ” Prokhorenko, Serzhan Organizations: Ukraine CNN —, CNN, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, United Nations, Programme, European Union, Management Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, Russia, Russian, Spanish, Valencia

☆ Tanks and troops out in the open in Ukraine can't go 10 minutes without being spotted and fired upon, Ukrainian official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tanks and troops out in the open can now be spotted in five minutes, a Ukrainian official said. Vadym Skibitsky told The Wall Street Journal that they can be hit in a further three minutes. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementRussia and Ukraine are both deploying thousands of drones on the battlefield, and are using cheap drones to target each other's forces.

Persons: Vadym Skibitsky, —, Maj, Ukraine's, Skibitsky, Bradley Crawford, Mykhailo Fedorov Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Service, Wall Street, US Army, Ukraine's, Digital Transformation, Royal United Services Institute, Ukraine, Washington Post Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Iraq

☆ Russia shot down several of its own planes in the early days of invading Ukraine, leaving it with few willing pilots, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia downed some of its own planes at the start of the war in Ukraine, a former US official said. As a result, Russia started running out of experienced pilots willing to fly, officials told the FT.A lack of pilots scuppered Russia's ability to control the skies, per several earlier reports. The FT in a Thursday report cited two Western officials and a Ukrainian official who spoke of the friendly-fire incidents. A view of destroyed armored SU-34 fighter jet belonging to Russian forces after Russian forces withdrawn from the city of Lyman in Donetsk. The think tank said Russia began committing instructor pilots to combat operations, hindering its ability to train anyone else.

☆ Ukraine Says Russia Delaying New Mobilization Amid Stepped-Up Offensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | Evan Gershkovich | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine said Russia was ready to launch a new mobilization but was struggling to integrate troops it had already drafted and was waiting to gauge the success of a stepped-up offensive ahead of the first anniversary of its invasion later this month. “Everything is ready,” the deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Vadym Skibitsky, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “The personnel is in place, the lists are ready, the people tasked with carrying out recruitment and training are on standby.”

☆ Ukraine Says Russia Is Delaying New Mobilization Amid Stepped-Up Offensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | Evan Gershkovich | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine said Russia had everything in place to launch a second wave of military mobilization but was waiting to gauge the success of a stepped-up offensive aimed at capturing swaths of territory ahead of the first anniversary of its invasion later this month. “Everything is ready,” the deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Vadym Skibitsky, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “The personnel is in place, the lists are ready, the people tasked with carrying out recruitment and training are on standby.”

DNIPROVS’KE, Ukraine — The smell of sawdust hangs in the air around a network of neatly dug trenches in a quiet and densely forested area on Ukraine’s border with Belarus. Originally built in April, Ukrainian forces continue to update and strengthen defenses such as these trenches, amid reports of Russian troops and armor pouring into Belarus. Air force drills will be held from Monday to Feb. 1 using all of Belarus's military air fields, and joint army exercises involving a “mechanized brigade subdivision,” the Belarusian defense ministry said. “We are now focused on the reserves and groupings of troops that Russia is putting in the temporarily occupied territories. Across the Dnipro river from Belarus, not far from the trenches, Ukrainian forces are taking no chances.

☆ Russia plans to mobilize 500,000 soldiers in days. If they don't deliver victory, then 'Putin will collapse,' says Ukrainian spy chief.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Ukrainian military is warning that Putin is planning to mobilize up to half a million new troops. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service said that they believe the mobilization will be announced on January 15. "If Russia loses this time around, then Putin will collapse," said Ukraine's deputy military intelligence chief. The new infusion of manpower will massively increase the number of soldiers Russia has deployed in occupied Ukraine. Russia's first mobilization in October of 300,000 soldiers was heavily criticized, with many mobilized soldiers being untrained, elderly, unwell, or too young to fight.

☆ O femeie împreună cu cei șapte copii ai săi au fost repatriați în Ucraina din Siria. Timp de doi ani, au trăit într-o tabără de refugiați, după ce au scăpat de Statul Islamic
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-20 | by ( Daniela Calmis | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +4 min

Amina și copiii eiAmina locuia în Crimeea înainte ca Rusia să anexeze peninsula. „Soțul ei a fost ucis pentru că a pus întrebări incomode [conducerii militare ISIS]”. După cum a declarat Roman Mașoveț, șeful adjunct al Biroului Președintelui Ucrainei, operațiunea specială a fost coordonată „direct” de Președintele Vladimir Zelensky. Reprezentanții autorităților Kurdistanului Irakian au oferit ajutorul necesar — au transferat-o pe Amina și copiii ei dintr-o tabără siriană la Erbil. Dar realitatea a fost diferită: de fapt, în acea seară, nu 9, ci 49 de persoane trebuiau să se întoarcă în Ucraina.

Persons: Fatima Boiko, Amina, Zaborona, bem, Boiko, Președintele Vladimir Zelensky, Vadim Skibitsky, ISIS Organizations: Statul, Statul Islamic, Statului Islamic, Aeroportul Zhuliany, Apărării, Ministerul, Externe, Ministerul Apărării, Organizația Internațională Locations: Kiev, Siria, Amina, Crimeea, Rusia, Lvov, Turcia, Statul Islamic, Roj, Siriei, Vest, Al, băltoace, Erbil, Irakian, Roman, Ucrainei, Apărării, Ucraina, Germania, Franța, Kazahstan, Kârgâzstan

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