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☆ Russia said a military transport plane crashed with 65 Ukrainian POWs on board. Reports saying Ukraine shot it down were quickly changed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia said an Il-76 transport aircraft crashed — and that it was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. AdvertisementRussia said one of its transport aircraft crashed with 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war on board. At least two outlets — Ukrainian Pravda and Ukraine-RBC — posted articles saying Ukraine had shot down the planes, citing military sources. AdvertisementRussia's defense ministry said that the plane, an Il-76 cargo vessel, had 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew and three escorts on board when it crashed, per state media. AdvertisementAn early report on the crash by the outlet Ukrainian Pravda cited a Ukrianian defense source calling the shootdown "our work."

Persons: —, Vyacheslav Gladkov Organizations: Service, Ukrainian Pravda, RBC, Pravda Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Belgorod

☆ A Ukrainian commando described being thrown off a speedboat while under fire, then telling his comrades to abandon him
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Earlier this month, Ukraine said it recaptured Black Sea drilling rigs in a daring raid. During the mission, Russian fighter jets shot at a Ukrainian boat, and one soldier fell overboard. In an exclusive interview with the outlet Ukrainian Pravda published last week, the commando described the dramatic ordeal in detail. The fighting caused the Ukrainian skipper to make sharp turns, and Conan fell overboard. The Black Sea has become a hotbed of military activity in the war.

Persons: Conan Organizations: Ukrainian Pravda, Service, Pravda, Ukraine, Russian Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Crimea

☆ Wild video shows Ukrainian drone flying through dense forest into a Russian hideout before exploding, military says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian drone blew up a Russian bunker in eastern Ukraine, officials said. It was taken in a dense forest west of Kreminna, a Russian-occupied town in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk, the Adam group said in a Telegram post. Footage shows a Ukrainian drone flying around a forest west of Kreminna, in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Footage shows a Ukrainian drone approaching a Russian shelter in a forest west of Kreminna, in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Footage shows a Ukrainian drone going inside a Russian shelter in a forest west of Kreminna, in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.

Persons: Adam, Yevhen, Mezhevikin Organizations: Service, Adam Tactical, 67th Mechanized Brigade, Ukraine's 67th Mechanized Brigade, Street Journal, Russia's Ministry of Defense Locations: Ukrainian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Luhansk, Kreminna, Ukraine's, Luhansk Oblast, Adam_tactic_group, Bakhmut, Moscow, Russia, China, Russia's

☆ Ukraine reports a surge in Russians offering to defect after a helicopter pilot switched sides and took his chopper with him
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

More Russian soldiers are offering to defect via a surrender hotline, a Ukrainian official said. The rise in calls comes after a Russian helicopter pilot publicly defected to Ukraine last month. The official said the number of Russian appeals to defect jumped by about 70 percent daily. "After the successful operation Synytsia with the Mi-8 and the pilot, the number of Russian army servicemen considering such a scenario has increased," he added. AdvertisementAdvertisementBy March this year, around 10,000 Russian soldiers used the hotline to offer their voluntary surrender, officials said at the time.

Persons: Andrii Yusov, Radio Svoboda, Ysuov, Russia Yusov, Maksim Kuzminov, Kuzminov Organizations: Service, Defence Intelligence, Radio, Ukrainian Pravda, Putin, CNN, Russia, Russia's Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Putin Russian, Russia, Russia's

☆ Ukraine hit Russia with one of its own prized tactics — turning an old, captured tank into a giant rolling bomb
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ukraine filled a tank with explosives and sent it toward Russian positions, a brigade said. Turning tanks into huge bombs is a tactic Russia has been using in Ukraine. The driver said he knew it would be "instant death" if the tank was hit and the explosives went off. The brigade said it used a captured Russian tank to make the explosive — specifically a decades-old T-62 it took earlier in the war. The spokesman, Yaroslav Halas, said a Ukrainian tank driver had to drive the explosive-filled tank most of the way to its target.

Persons: Yaroslav Halas, Halas, Vasil Dudinets, Dudinets Organizations: Service, Mountain Assault Brigade, Facebook, Pravda, UK Ministry of Defence, 128th Brigade Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian, Ukrainian, Soviet Union, Kherson

☆ Opinion | Corruption Is an Existential Threat to Ukraine, and Ukrainians Know It
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Farah Stockman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

No one knows better what an existential threat corruption can be, sapping the public trust and the legitimacy of the state. Ukrainians consider corruption the country’s second-most-serious problem, behind only the Russian invasion, according to a poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology this year. That raises hopes that Ukrainians are starting to resist corruption with the same can-do spirit that repelled the Russian invasion. Ukrainian lawmakers are pushing back against the scrutiny. “Many Ukrainians are unhappy with this decision of the Parliament,” Andrii Borovyk, the executive director of Transparency International Ukraine, told me.

Persons: Yuriy Nikolov, Volodymyr Zelensky, Oleksii Reznikov, Bohdan Torokhtiy, Alina Levchenko, Mr, Zelensky, ” Andrii Borovyk, Vitalii Shabunin, ” Organizations: Kyiv International Institute of, European Union, Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Transparency International, Ukrainian Pravda Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, Europe, Instagram, Kyiv, Transparency International Ukraine

☆ Russia had a super-advanced air defense system within 300 meters of a drone attack in Moscow, but failed to shoot it down
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A drone attack close to Russia's Defence Ministry on Monday left two buildings damaged. But less than 300 meters away from the attack, Russia has an air defense system, Radio Liberty reported. The defense system was not activated on the morning of the attack, eyewitnesses told Radio Liberty. "As for the development of the defense system, ensuring its more intensive work, this is a question for the Ministry of Defense." Ukraine has not formally accepted responsibility for the attack, though one unnamed intelligence official told CNN that Kyiv was behind it.

Persons: Dmitry Peskov, Peskov, Mykhailo Fedorov Organizations: Russia's Defence, Radio Liberty, Service, Russia, Drones, Russia's Ministry of Defence, Pravda, Ministry of Defense, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ukraine, Ukrainian Pravda, CNN, Kyiv Locations: Russia, Wall, Silicon, Moscow —, Russian, Ukrainian, Ukraine

☆ Zakhar Prilepin: Russia says bombing of military blogger is 'a terrorist act'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Mariya Knight | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Russia has blamed the “Kyiv regime” and several Western nations for the bombing of military blogger Zakhar Prilepin’s car on Saturday. The claim was made by a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, but she provided no proof for the allegation. The incident follows the death of another Russian military blogger last month. The Russian Investigative Committee called the latest incident “a terrorist act” and said it plans to investigate the blast as such. Russian pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia reported that Prilepin had surgery earlier on Saturday and is at the hospital in stable condition.

☆ Russia's Wagner army is recruiting fighters on Pornhub in a desperate attempt to strengthen troops, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Wagner Group has struggled to recruit more fighters to support Russia in the Ukraine war. "Don't whack off, go work for PMC Wagner," an advert on Pornhub said, according to the report. "Don't whack off, apply for a job with the Wagner Group." The advert also includes a phone number, which is reportedly linked with Wagner Group recruiters. A Ukrainian military intelligence report, published in December and first obtained by CNN, said that Wagner Group fighters, which include prisoners, "have become the disposable infantry" in Ukraine.

☆ Ukraine's 'iron general' inherited $1 million from a US software developer and donated it straight to the military
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Zaluzhnyi donated the full amount to Ukraine's military earlier this month, the reports said. Stepanets was born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia in 1938, according to the Ukrainian Pravda. He made his fortune after inventing a decoding system and selling it to Microsoft, the Ukrainian Pravda reported. A former soldier himself, Zaluzhnyi reformed Ukraine's military from a Soviet model into a modern fighting force. "His leadership enabled the Ukrainian armed forces to adapt quickly with battlefield initiative against the Russians."

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