Yevgeny Prigozhin is the head of the Mercenary group, Wagner, that is fighting Ukraine on behalf of Russia.
Prigozhin feels that the Russian President is being deceived by the Russian Defence Minister.
Prigozhin made these statements … Read the rest
A Moscow court fined Yandex for failing to turn over user data to domestic intelligence services.
Yandex, a search engine and web portal, was found guilty of repeatedly refusing to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) data on its … Read the rest
Consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Western countries had enjoyed total mastery of the skies since the end of the Cold War and largely dropped the powerful defences once designed to protect NATO forces from Soviet aircraft.
But NATO … Read the rest
United States aid to Russia during WW2.
During 1941 to 1945 the United States supplied the Soviet Union with $180 billion (at 2023 values) worth of military equipment to fight off the invading Nazis.
This equipment aided Russia in remaining … Read the rest
Russian Losses in Ukraine after 447 days.
According to the General Staff of the Ukraine Armed Forces, these are the Russian losses since 24 February 2022.
About 34 million people died in the Soviet Union during WW2.
That worked out that the Soviet Union lost 13.7% of its population as victims of the Second World War.
The breakdown of these losses by countries in the Soviet … Read the rest
World Support for Russia or Ukraine?
A recent report on the support of either Ukraine or Russia, based on the population of the relevant countries, has shown the following figures:
Have about 200,000 Russian troops been killed or wounded while fighting in Ukraine?
According to some estimates the Russian losses are at about 500 troops a day.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, and the number … Read the rest
Belarusian volunteers has been fighting for Ukraine for years. They first emerged in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and instigated the war in the Donbas region.
A typical comment from a Belarus citizen is:
“We didn’t finish our revolution, we … Read the rest
On 24 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a special military operation in Ukraine.
Putin thought he would be welcomed with open arms, not bullets.
The first few days were his “special military operation“, but it has … Read the rest