A bomb that killed a soldier in a remote Russian town was likely targeting a notorious Russian commander known as the Butcher of Bucha, Russian and Ukrainian media and military bloggers said. Russian authorities said the bomb attack on Tuesday in the far-east Khabarovsk region killed one person and injured several others. Russian media and military bloggers reported the person who was killed was a soldier with the rank of lieutenant colonel, adding the attack happened inside a closed military barracks. VChK-OGPU, a well-known Russian military blogger, said the real target was Major General Azatbek Omurbekov, who was involved in some of the worst massacres against civilians committed by the Russian military in Ukraine. Omurbekov was in charge of the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, which operated in the Kyiv region during the initial weeks of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. The unit was named by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense as war criminals after the bodies of murdered civilians and and mass graves were discovered following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the region. Not long after the announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded a honorary t
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Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. During talks last week with President Donald Trump…
Read original at CNN →After more than four years on the Ukrainian front lines, officer Kyrylo Bondarenko is finally sensing a shift. “We can see and feel how the mood among the Russian troops on the front line is changing. They are…
Read original at CNN →Civilian deaths in several regions and baby girl has leg blown off; Kallas says Putin’s weakening position could mean ‘opportunity for ending war’. What we know on day 1,540 Russian forces launched attacks in Ukraine’s…
Read original at The Guardian →A bomb that killed a soldier in a remote Russian town was likely targeting a notorious Russian commander known as the Butcher of Bucha, Russian and Ukrainian media and military bloggers said. Russian authorities said…
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Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. During talks last week with President Donald Trump in Beijing, Chinese…
View source →After more than four years on the Ukrainian front lines, officer Kyrylo Bondarenko is finally sensing a shift. “We can see and feel how the mood among the Russian troops on the front line is changing. They are exhausted,” Bondarenko told…
View source →Civilian deaths in several regions and baby girl has leg blown off; Kallas says Putin’s weakening position could mean ‘opportunity for ending war’. What we know on day 1,540 Russian forces launched attacks in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk…
View source →A bomb that killed a soldier in a remote Russian town was likely targeting a notorious Russian commander known as the Butcher of Bucha, Russian and Ukrainian media and military bloggers said. Russian authorities said the bomb attack on…
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