Putin claims fighting intensifies in southeastern Ukraine, with Russia inflicting heavy losses
Thursday, 27 July 2023 Fierce fighting raged Thursday in southeastern Ukraine, where a Western official said Kyiv has launched a major push and Russian President Vladimir Putin said “hostilities have intensified significantly.” Battles in recent weeks have taken place on multiple points along the over 1,000-kilometer (over 600-mile) front line as Ukraine wages a counteroffensive with Western-supplied weapons and Western-trained troops against Russian forces who invaded 17 months ago.
Russia Extends Age Limit For Draft , Amid Ongoing War in Ukraine.
On July 25, the lower house of Russia's parliament
approved a bill to extend the upper age limit
for the country's compulsory military draft. .
ABC reports that the decision to raise the age
from 27 to 30 comes amid an effort to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is "carefully" examining proposals made by some African leaders to end the conflict in Ukraine. "We respect your initiatives and we are examining them..
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