The 31-year-old travelled to the war-torn country to ‘support freedom’, his mother said.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, marking a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014 following the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity.
The invasion triggered Europe’s largest refugee crisis since WW2, with millions leaving the country and millions more displaced.
Russia invades Ukraine 2022
In 2014, at the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia annexed Crimea and Russian-backed separatists seized part of the south-eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, sparking a regional war there.
In 2022, Russia began a large military build-up along its Ukrainian border – over 190,000 armed troops. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had continued to deny Russia was planning an invasion until shortly before the invasion.
In a broadcast shortly before the invasion, Putin espoused irredentist views, questioned Ukraine’s right to statehood and falsely claimed the country was being governed by neo-Nazis. Putin also claimed NATO constitutes a threat to Russia’s national security by expanding eastward since the early 2000s, which NATO disputed. Russia demanded NATO cease expansion and bar Ukraine from ever joining. The UK, USA and allies all accused Russia of planning to attack or invade Ukraine, Russian officials and state media continued to deny it up until 23 February 2022.
The invasion began on 24 February – Putin announced it was a “special military operation” to “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine. Russia then started missiles and airstrikes across Ukraine as well as a large ground invasion from multiple directions.
The invasion has been widely condemned by the international community.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine hasn’t gone entirely to plan as the Russians underestimated the Ukrainian people’s will to fight for their country.
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‘No f***ing ammunition, nothing… Shall we use our fingers as bayonets?’
A view of damage at a site in Odesa that was hit amid Russian drone attacks (Picture: reuters)
Ukraine has claimed a Russian drone fell and detonated on the territory ofRomania on Monday during an overnight attack on Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube river.
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His day off ended in tragedy.
Between 10 and 20 drones reportedly hit an airport in the Pskov region of Western Russia.
The weapon wiped out a Russian military warehouse.
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At least 100 people were detained during a two-day raid.
The downed fighter jet is the eighth military aircraft Vladimir Putin has lost this year.
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Russian forces used used chemical munitions in the area of Novodanylivka in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on Sunday, the Ukrainian military said on Monday. “The enemy continues to use chemical munitions, violating all conventions,” said General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, the commander of the Tavria operational-strategic group of troops. FRANCE 24 correspondent Emmanuelle Chaze explains, adding that this is “nothing new”.
‘Russian terrorists have once again targeted ports, grain facilities and global food security.’
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Such attacks are ‘inevitable’, he said.
Explosions from a thwarted drone attack rocked a Moscow business district on July 30, 2023. In Ukraine, an overnight Russian missile strike killed at least one person in the northeastern city of Sumy; a Russian missile strike on Saturday killed two people in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.
Pictures show the buildings reduced to rubble.
The attack prompted a temporary closure of one of four airports around the capital.
A girl, 9, and her brother, 10, will be forced to give evidence.
Vladimir Putin furiously blamed the Ukrainians after the attack – and they’ve now confirmed his suspicions.