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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Russian army

A view of the blast scene, which killed the commander of Russian armed forces' chemical, biological and radiation defense troops, Igor Kirillov, and his assistant, according to the Russian Investigative Committee, outside a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow on December 17, 2024. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)
December 18, 2024, 11:38 am
Russia: Suspect in general’s killing was recruited by Ukrainian special forces
In statement after arrest, Moscow says Uzbek man was promised $100,000, refuge in ‘a European country’ in exchange for carrying out fatal bombing attack on WMD chief
By AFP
The mother of a Russian soldier who was killed in a military action in Ukraine kneels near a tree planted in memory of her son at the Alley of Heroes in Sevastopol, Crimea, February 25, 2023. (AP Photo)
July 10, 2023, 11:35 am
Independent analysis estimates 50,000 Russians have died in Ukraine war
Two Russian media outlets and German data scientist use review of inheritance records and mortality data to arrive at figure far higher than the 6,000 acknowledged by Moscow
By Erika Kinetz
Head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claims the complete capture of east Ukraine's Bakhmut, in a video published to Telegram on May 20, 2023. (Screenshot)
July 3, 2023, 12:55 pm
Russia says country’s combat abilities unaffected by Wagner insurgency
Official says military has enough manpower to replace mercenary force’s mutineers and is not planning a new mobilization
By AFP
Hiding Russian army reservist Dmitry, whose name has been changed for security reasons, shows his army booklet during an AFP interview at an undisclosed location in Russia in 2023. (Romain COLAS / AFP)
February 16, 2023, 8:55 am
Russian army refuseniks hide in fear to evade Ukraine conflict
After Putin ordered a mass call-up of reservists, some fled the country; those who couldn’t are still trying to dodge authorities inside Russia
By Romain COLAS
Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions from a US-supplied M777 howitzer in Kherson region, Ukraine, January 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)
January 10, 2023, 8:48 pm
Russia escalates offensive on Bakhmut as battle for eastern Ukraine continues
The Kremlin, whose invasion of its neighbor has suffered numerous reversals, is hungry for victories; Russia’s forces said ‘very close’ to taking over Soledar
By ANDREW MELDRUM
A Ukrainian soldier watches a drone feed from an underground command center in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)
December 26, 2022, 6:48 pm
Moscow says Ukrainian drone downed near base deep inside Russia
Russia says three servicemen were killed by debris at the Engels airbase, which houses Tu-160 nuclear-capable strategic bombers
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and HANNA ARHIROVA
Russian Sukhoi Su-25 assault aircrafts release smoke in the colours of the Russian flag while flying over Red Square during a military parade, which marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Moscow on June 24, 2020. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)
December 25, 2022, 12:59 am
Report: Russia to supply Iran with dozens of Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets
Intelligence cited by Channel 12 indicates Iranian pilots are already training with Russian-made jets
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the launch ceremony of the Kovykta gas field and part of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from Kovykta to Chayanda via video link at the Kremlin in Moscow, on December 21, 2022. (Mikhail Kireyev / Sputnik / AFP)
December 21, 2022, 5:30 pm
Putin says Russia will continue improving combat readiness of its nuclear forces
Moscow has faced a series of humiliating setbacks on the ground in Ukraine; Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu proposes increasing personnel in Ukraine to 1.5 million soldiers
By AFP
A woman passes with a bicycle as a local resident works to clean the debris from a damaged house after Russian shelling in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)
November 11, 2022, 2:56 am
As Russians flee Kherson, Ukraine says they’re leaving behind a ‘city of death’
While pull-out a potential turning point in war, Zelensky aide says Putin’s troops laid mines throughout Kherson as they left, predicts they will shell city after relocating
By John Leicester and YURAS KARMANAU
Illustrative: In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, September 19, 2022, members of a special forces unit of the Russian army aim their weapons in action at an unspecified location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
October 15, 2022, 11:57 pm
11 killed as two men open fire on soldiers at Russian military training site
Gunmen from unnamed former Soviet states killed by return fire; Russia’s Defense Ministry labels incident a terrorist attack
By Agencies
Soldiers of a Russian military convoy and their US counterparts pose for pictures as their patrol routes intersect in an oil field near Syria's al-Qahtaniyah town in the northeastern Hasakah province, close to the border with Turkey, on Octobre 8, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
October 11, 2022, 1:30 am
Russian, US troops in Syria hold their fire in rare congenial moment
Instead of zipping past each other, convoys backing opposing sides of Syrian civil war stop to chat, pose for pictures and exchange uniform patches as mementos of the interaction
By Delil Souleiman
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link in Saint Petersburg on October 10, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP)
October 10, 2022, 9:53 pm
Russia lashes out after Crimea humiliation, but Putin’s options limited
Analysts say Monday’s missile barrage against Ukraine is a sign of Moscow’s rage over bridge bombing, but also of its impotence
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Daphné BENOIT
An abandoned Russian tank at a gas station on the outskirts of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine on September 16, 2022, after Ukrainian forces recaptured the eastern city from the Russians. (Juan Barreto/AFP)
October 6, 2022, 11:17 pm
Russian elite voice rare anger at military amid battlefield losses in Ukraine
Former general urges defense chiefs to ‘stop lying,’ while Internet star suggests some army officers should be executed for failures
By AFP
Ruslan Zinin, 25, who shot and killed a Russian military officer at an enlistment office in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk amid Moscow's efforts to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men to wage war on Ukraine, September 26, 2022. (Twitter)
September 26, 2022, 7:14 pm
Gunman kills Russian military recruiter as opposition to Ukraine mobilization grows
Shooter, identified as 25-year-old local resident Ruslan Zinin, says ‘no one will go to fight’ before opening fire in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk
By Adam Schreck and Jon Gambrell
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, September 21, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
September 22, 2022, 1:10 am
Israel condemns Russia’s massive call-up of reservists, nuclear threats
Senior official says military mobilization ‘deepens a war that didn’t need to happen,’ expresses concern for Jews in Russia
By Lazar Berman
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