As small Russian units slip into Mykolaivka street by street, exhausted Ukrainian defenders, foreign-trained deserters, and terrified civilians brace for a possible assault on Sloviansk, backed by new, vastly more destructive North Korean missiles.
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The battle for the last town before Sloviansk has begun.
North Korea has supplied Russia with a missile with several times the destructive power of anything it has used against Ukraine so far.
Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers deserted during training in Germany.
Maps of the day — Sloviansk, Dobropillia
With Moscow’s troops close to closing a pincer around Kostiantynivka while Kyiv’s drones gnaw at Russia’s land corridor to…
The appointment of Biletskyi and Prokopenko to lead more than 100,000 troops could decide whether eastern cities like Sloviansk,…
Russia’s war machine is now sustained by an authoritarian supply chain that includes North Korean weapons systems.
Putin is betring on seizing Kostyantynivka to shift attention from Crimea. Intensified Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy…
Ukrainian drones hammer Russian fuel convoys and frontline towns like Kostyantynivka edge toward collapse while Moscow’s…
Russia deploys a North Korean missile unit to Ukraine, signaling deeper military ties. Capture of Sloviansk by December 31 at…
