Month: December 2023

Russian Losses in Ukraine ‘Enormous,’ German General Says

BERLIN — Russia has suffered huge human and material losses in Ukraine and its army will emerge weakened from the conflict, a senior German military figure said in an interview published Friday. The interview came as Kyiv is fighting to maintain western support for its war against Russian forces, which invaded in February 2022. “You know that according to Western intelligence figures, 300,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or so seriously wounded that they can no longer be mobilized for the war,” Christian Freuding, who oversees the German army’s support for Kyiv, told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Leaked U.S. intelligence earlier …

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У Львові, Києві, Харкові, Дніпрі, Одесі повідомили про загиблих внаслідок масованого удару РФ

Росія вночі і вранці завдача чергового масованого удару дронами і ракетами по Україні. Про вибухи повідомляли у Львові, Києві, Харкові, Дніпрі й Черкасах, на Сумщині, Одещині. Деякі міста атакували по кілька разів за ранок …

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More Children Taken From Ukraine’s Russia-Held Regions Arrive in Belarus

TALLINN, ESTONIA — Belarus’ authoritarian president on Thursday attended a government-organized meeting with children brought from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, openly defying international outrage over his country’s involvement in Moscow’s deportation of Ukrainian children.  Speaking at the event marking the arrival of a new group of Ukrainian children ahead of the New Year holiday, President Alexander Lukashenko vowed to “embrace these children, bring them to our home, keep them warm and make their childhood happier.”  Belarusian officials did not say how many Ukrainian children were brought into the country.  A recent study by Yale University has found that more than 2,400 …

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Rivers Remain High in Parts of Northern and Central Europe After Heavy Rain

BERLIN — Parts of northern and central Europe continued to grapple with flooding on Thursday after heavy rain. A barrier near the German city of Magdeburg was opened for the first time in a decade to ease pressure from the Elbe River, and some animals were removed from their enclosures at a safari park in northern Germany.  This week’s floods have prompted evacuations of dozens or hundreds of people in parts of northern and central Germany, but largely dry weather was forecast on Thursday. Still, water levels on some rivers caused concern, and they have continued to rise in parts of …

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