Russia claims territorial gains in battle for Bakhmut Russia's defence ministry says its forces have captured more territory in Bakhmut as they pursue their bid to seize full control of the city. The New Daily · Apr 23, 2023
'Donbass Devushka': American mouthpiece for Russian propaganda on Ukraine “Donbass Devushka” is a prominent social media account implicated in the recent leak of classified documents on the Ukraine war. The pro-Kremlin mouthpiece, which claims to be run by a Russian woman in the occupied city of Luhansk, is in fact run by a pro-Russian former US military officer. France 24 · Apr 22, 2023
Russian troops fighting in western Bakhmut, Wagner frets over Ukraine attack Russia's Defence Ministry said in a briefing on Friday that assault troops were fighting in western parts of Bakhmut, the last part of the embattled Ukrainian city still held by Kyiv's forces. Reuters · Apr 21, 2023
Russian border city hit by friendly fire A Russian military jet accidentally bombed the city of Belgorod north of the Ukrainian border, the Russian defence ministry said, leaving a massive crater and damaging homes and cars. Bangkok Post · Apr 21, 2023
Russia says its air force accidentally bombed its own city near Ukraine A Russian fighter jet had an "accidental discharge" of its payload over the Russian city of Belgorod on Thursday, according to Russia's Defense Ministry, causing injuries and damaging buildings. WEKU · Apr 21, 2023
Probe launched after Russian warplane mistakenly fires weapon into Russian city, causing damage and injuries The accidental discharge of aviation ammunition caused an explosion, damaging buildings and cars and injuring at least two people. ABC News · Apr 21, 2023
Russia warplane accidentally fires into city near Ukraine, injuring three -Tass A Russian Sukhoi-34 supersonic warplane accidentally fired a weapon into the city of Belgorod near Ukraine late on Thursday, causing an explosion and injuring three people. Reuters · Apr 20, 2023
Scar spotted on Vladimir Putin’s neck as he is constantly accompanied by cancer surgeon Footage shows a scar-like mark running diagonally across Vladimir Putin's throat as the Kremlin leader attended an Orthodox Easter cathedral service in Moscow, Russia, last weekend Daily Mirror · Apr 19, 2023
Pro-Trump ‘Stop the Steal’ organiser apologises for asking teenage boys for sexual pictures Ali Alexander says in his apology he ‘repented before God’ The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2023
Pentagon leak suggests Russia honing disinformation drive – report Latest disclosure includes claims that social media platforms detect false accounts only 1% of the time The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2023
Myanmar junta says over 3,000 prisoners pardoned for New Year Myanmar's junta released 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country's traditional New Year on Monday, according to a statement from the military government published on pro-military Telegram channels. Bangkok Post · Apr 17, 2023
Myanmar's junta pardons over 3,000 prisoners for New Year -statement Myanmar's junta released 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country's traditional New Year on Monday, according to a statement from the military government published on pro-military Telegram channels. Reuters · Apr 17, 2023
US neo-Nazi accused of sniper plot appears to have shared instructions with Australian far-right figures Exclusive: Brandon Russell, who has previously been jailed for possession of bomb-making materials, communicated with Australian extremists via Telegram The Guardian - AU · Apr 16, 2023
‘An Easter exchange’: 130 Ukrainian prisoners of war freed Ukrainian official confirms exchange of POWs on the day Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Russia celebrate Easter. Al Jazeera · Apr 16, 2023
The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2023 Dozens of POWs freed as Ukraine marks Orthodox Easter A top Ukrainian official says more than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released in a major Easter exchange with Russia
Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 16, 2023 Ukraine Brings Home 130 Military in Easter Prisoner Exchange One hundred and thirty Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released and returned home in a "great Easter exchange", a senior Ukrainian presidential official said on Sunday, the day of Orthodox Easter. Ukrainian and Russian forces have held regular prisoner exchanges during Moscow's invasion, now in its 14th month. Russia…
Salon · Apr 15, 2023 Radicalization of American white youth Jack Teixeira, the suspected leaker, is suddenly a cause-celeb on the right
The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2023 How was a 21-year-old gamer able to leak a mountain of major Pentagon secrets? Barely three years into his military career, Jack Teixeira allegedly exposed his country’s most sensitive intelligence gathering operations. Now the Pentagon is being forced into a reckoning on who should have access to America’s secrets. Bevan Hurley reports
The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2023 How was a 21-year-old gamer able to leak a mountain of major Pentagon secrets? Barely three years into his military career, Jack Teixeira allegedly exposed his country’s most sensitive intelligence gathering operations. Now the Pentagon is being forced into a reckoning on who should have access to America’s secrets. Bevan Hurley reports
The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2023 Pentagon leaks: how Discord video game chat platform landed in the spotlight Users explain the way top-secret documents were able slowly to spread across the internet unnoticed
ABC News · Apr 13, 2023 The Pentagon leak that landed on a chat forum about Minecraft exposes an unavoidable weakness in US national security The leak of highly classified Pentagon documents has forced defence officials into the online worlds of gamers, meme lords and their leagues of followers, and exposed an unavoidable weakness in US national security.
France 24 · Apr 12, 2023 Who stands to gain? Pentagon leaks expose US military secrets Loose lips sink ships, read the poster during World War II. The US government was then urging citizens to refrain from sharing what might even seem like benign information to the untrained ear. It was only a matter of time before Europe's first ground war since the information age sprang…
The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2023 Ukraine to probe video allegedly showing soldier's beheading Ukraine is promising to investigate a gruesome video circulating on social media that purportedly shows the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier
Reuters · Apr 12, 2023 Exclusive: Leaked U.S. intel document claims Serbia agreed to arm Ukraine Serbia has agreed to supply arms to Kyiv or has sent them already, according to a classified Pentagon document, despite the country's professed neutrality in the Ukraine war and refusal to sanction Russia over its 2022 invasion.
France 24 · Apr 11, 2023 No, this video doesn’t show Ukrainians setting fire to an Orthodox church Did Ukrainians really set a Russian Orthodox church on fire? A video purporting to show just that has been circulating online since April 5, 2023. However, it turns out that this video was filmed in Russia more than ten years ago and shows an accidental fire.