Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday promoted Ukraine to join NATO in a speech in Vilnius, as alliance members collected for a crucial summit in the Lithuanian capital. NATO will give Ukraine security, Ukraine will make NATO more powerful, stated Zelensky, standing together with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, before a Ukrainian army flag

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Russian forces have advanced 1.5 kilometers near the town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine after repelling a Ukrainian attack in the area, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. Russian systems released a counterattack, advancing 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) along two kilometers of the front, Shoigu stated on Russian state television.But he

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Belarusian artist and political prisoner Ales Pushkin died early Tuesday at a health center where he was urgently moved from a jail center, the Belarusian human rights center Viasna reported, mentioning the artist's wife. The factors for the 57-year-old dissident's hospitalization in intensive care as well as the circumstances surrounding his

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A mock-up of Kremlin critic Alexei Navaly's jail cell has actually beenvandalized ahead of a NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.Navalny's supporters have toured European cities with the 2x3 meter gray box that duplicates the Kremlin critic's genuine punishment cell to raise awareness of the alarming conditions in which he is being held.On Tuesday,

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Russia's Wagner mercenaries will train the army of surrounding Belarus where they were banished following a stopped working mutiny, the Belarusian Defense Ministrysaid Tuesday. They'll inform us about weapons: which ones worked well, which ones did not, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in a declaration provided by his ministry.He said Wagner would

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A senior Russian draft officer and previous submarine commander who Kyiv accuses of lagging missile attacks on Ukraine has actually been shot and eliminated in southern Russia, authorities stated late Monday.Captain Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, worked as deputy head of the Krasnodar city administration's mobilization department when he was reported as having been

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