The chairwoman of the Bundestag defence committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, says the recent terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow, which claimed more than 130 lives, is a "serious blow" to the Russian security authorities. In an interview with the Sunday edition of the Bild newspaper, Strack-Zimmermann, a defence expert from Germany's junior coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), said there had been warnings before the attacks. Western and US intelligence services warned an
Germany's parliament has called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to supply Ukraine with "additional long-range weapons" for its war against the Russian invasion. Lawmakers from Scholz's three-party coalition passed the resolution urging expanded aid on Thursday, shortly after rejecting a separate proposal from the opposition demanding that Scholz specifically supply sought-after Taurus cruise missiles. Scholz, a Social Democrat (SPD), has been blocking the delivery of the long-range German-made Taurus
“My brain will desperately want to forget all this,” narrates journalist Mstyslav Chernov over footage he filmed of city workers adding bodies to a mass grave in Mariupol, “but the camera will not let it happen.” At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chernov, along with his Associated Press colleagues, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, were the last international media left reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol. The footage they captured for the AP, including famous scenes from the aftermath of the Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital on March 9, 2022, horrified the world and arguably contributed to mobilizing international aid for Ukraine.
Ukraine said Friday there was fierce fighting in the beleaguered frontline city of Avdiivka that has become a main Russian target ahead of the second anniversay of its invasion.Its fall would be a significant symbolic victory for Russia ahead of the February 24 anniversary of the start of the invasion.