Russia-Ukraine crisis - The Purbottar

01 May

Actress Angelina Jolie’s presence in war-torn Ukraine gives citizens a reason to smile

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Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie was recently stranded in the Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv as the war with Russia continued. The Eternals actress was clicked in the western metropolis of Lviv sporting a plain outfit, with a bag on her back. She congratulated fans who admitted to stopping her by saving her at an espresso. Maya Pidhorodetska posted Jolie's photo from the cafe on Facebook and captioned it, “Nothing special. Only in Lviv. I just went for coffee. Only Angelina Jolie," she wrote in Ukrainian after filming the actress, who waved at him from the counter. "Ukraine is clearly supported using…

15 Apr

“World War III Has Begun After Sinking Of Moskva”, Says Russian State TV

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Russian kingdom television has declared that World War III has already started out after the sinking of its naval vessel Moskva in the Ukraine war. Though Russia said this was once broken after a fire, Ukraine claimed the savings of destroying the flagship vessel of Moscow's Black Sea Fleet through its Neptune missile.But the sinking of the ship led to meltdown on the Kremlin's primary propaganda mouthpiece Russia 1. Presenter Olga Skabeyeva made the chilling statement, informing the viewers that "what it is escalated into can safely be referred to as World War III" and insisted "that's entirely for sure."…

13 Apr

Over 1,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Have Surrendered In Strategic Port City Of Mariupol: Russia

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Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in Mariupol, a strategic port metropolis in japanese Ukraine that has been besieged through Moscow's troops for over a month. "In the town of Mariupol… 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th marine brigade voluntarily laid down their palms and surrendered," the ministry stated in a statement. The ministry said that the soldiers surrendered near the "Mariupol Metallurgical Plant named after Illich", a large steel factory. Among the troops were 162 officers and 47 had been women, the ministry added. More than 100 have been wounded. Russia…

08 Apr

39 person Killed abd 100 Injured In Ukraine Train Station Rocket Attack

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At least 39 people were killed today in a rocket attack on a command station in the Jap Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, which was used for civilian evacuation. Russia has denied the attack. At least 39 people, including four children, were killed in Russian rocket fire in eastern Ukraine as civilians tried to flee to safer parts of the country, the country's security services said. In addition, the country's railway company said that more than a hundred were injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia as "boundlessly evil" after the rocket attack. “They are brutally destroying the civilian population. It…

01 Apr

Russians fled Chernobyl nuclear plant at ‘first sign of illness’ from radiation, says Ukraine

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Ukrainians have claimed that Russian soldiers fled the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after receiving high levels of radiation. The claims, made by the Ukrainian national power corporation Energoatom, are now being investigated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog. According to Guardian documents, Energotom said the Russians had dug trenches in a wooded area inside the power plant's exclusion quarter, adding that the soldiers "panicked at the first signs of illness that appeared very quickly and began preparing to leave." Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also said Russians had been exposed to radiation. Some reports also…

31 Mar

Russian soldiers disobeyed orders, accidentally shot down own aircraft, says UK spy chief

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The head of Britain’s GCHQ secret agent provider said on Wednesday that new brain showed some Russian troopers in Ukraine had refused to lift out orders, sabotaged their personal tools and by accident shot down one of their own aircraft. “We’ve viewed Russian soldiers short of weapons and morale – refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their very own tools and even by accident capturing down their own aircraft,” Fleming said. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has killed heaps of people, displaced hundreds of thousands and raised fears of a wider disagreement between Russia and the United States. Government…

29 Mar

7 Dead After Russian Missiles Hit Government Building In Mykolaiv, Zelensky Says

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A Russian rocket hit the regional administration of the southern Ukrainian port metropolis of Mykolaiv on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 22, local authorities said. Eighteen of the injured were pulled from the wreckage by rescue workers, who continued to work at the scene, emergency services said in an online post. An image shared by local governor Vitaly Kim confirmed a large gap in the side of the building. On Tuesday, Reuters witnesses saw the wreckage in the distance and ambulances and furnace engines heading to the scene. The neighborhood was once surrounded. "They destroyed half the…

20 Mar

Russia Used Advanced Hypersonic Missiles Against Ukraine for the First Time

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Russia used its most modern Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to break a weapons storage website in the country's west, the Defense Ministry said. Russia has in no way before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and nation news agency RIA Novosti stated it was once the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons throughout the combat in pro-Western Ukraine. "The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a giant underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region," the Russian Defense Ministry said…

15 Mar

SRK’s video on ‘Futility of War’ goes viral in between the Russia-Ukraine crisis

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In the middle of destruction and horrors of the Russia-Ukraine war, an old video of Shah Rukh Khan is going viral on the internet in which he was seen talking about the futility of the war. It was an old video where he claims "War is not an alternative to peace and goodness" and how only the people who die see the end of it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SRK 1000 FACES (@srk1000faces) Reacting to the video, many users appreciated SRK for his words and said that everyone should listen to him. One said, "One of…

13 Mar

US: NATO will act if Russia hits alliance

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White House country wide security adviser Jake Sullivan says Russia will face a response from Nato should any of its attacks in Ukraine pass borders and hit contributors of the safety alliance. Russian missiles on Sunday struck a army training base shut to Ukraine's western border with Nato member Poland and killed 35 people. Sullivan tells CBS News' "Face the Nation" that President Joe Biden "has been clear many times that the United States will work with our allies to defend each inch of Nato territory and that ability each inch." Sullivan says a navy assault on Nato territory would…