Some analysts say Ukraine’s military is talking up the idea of a counter-offensive to discomfit their Russian counterparts. They want Russian commanders to spread their forces thinly along the front lines, ready for any attack, rather than concentrate them in particular places,
“I listened to Macron yesterday and it was as if someone was spitting in our face,” said Adèle, a 19-year-old law student in Nanterre. “For this pension reform, there is another way and if he doesn’t do that, it’s because he’s not
When their positions are under attack, he explains, they take cover in trench dugouts, while one soldier stays on watch looking for enemy infantry and drones. He has learned to cope, he says. “There was fear for the first few times. When
Footage released by the President’s office showed him in an old industrial warehouse giving medals to battle-weary soldiers. “I am honoured to be here today,” he told servicemen, “in the east of our country, in Donbas, and to award our heroes, to
Speaking on Ukrainian TV, military spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk reminded viewers that Dzhankoi was a hub station for the occupying force and that, from the start of the Russians’ full-scale invasion, it had been made clear that defeating their logistics would play a
Amritpal Singh claims to draw inspiration from Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a preacher accused by the Indian government of leading an armed insurgency for a separate Sikh homeland – Khalistan. Bhindranwale was killed in the Indian army’s storming of the Golden Temple, the
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it a war crime but Russia’s embassy in London claimed the hospital had no longer been in use, and was instead being used by members of the Azov regiment, which was set up as a volunteer militia
On Saturday Lahore police used a digger to gain entry to Mr Khan’s residence in an operation involving nearly 1,000 security personnel, according to local media. Police later said they had arrested Khan supporters who had been involved in violence against police
In an interview with the BBC before President Xi’s visit was announced, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said: “I don’t think China has reached the moment now when it wants to, when it’s ready to arm Russia. Nor do I think that
Although their policies are very much focused on opposing the government’s environmental policies, he told the BBC most people would characterise them as a right-wing, populist party that was quite anti-EU, anti-immigration and in favour of banning burkas for Muslims.