War

By SoF correspondent Owen Thorne Bus loads of civilians arrived in Zaporizhzhia today after being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where a new wave of Russian attacks have been reported. The civilians traveled in a convoy for more than 24 hours, crossing out of Donbas through …

By Megan Duzor and Brian Williamson | VOA News The African continent saw a significant increase in coups in the last year-and-a-half, with military figures carrying out takeovers in Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, Chad and Mali. After Sudan’s coup in October 2021, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke of “an epidemic” of coups, including the events in Africa …

Of all the lethal munitions strewn across towns north of the Ukrainian capital, Chris Garrett says perhaps the nastiest are the Bouncing Betty-type mines designed to spring out of the ground and explode at waist-height. Speaking by telephone from the north of Kyiv, the British explosives expert describes the leaping Soviet-designed …

By Harold Hutchison While all snipers are elite, some of the crème de la crème of snipers have recorded kills at ranges of over 2,000 yards. Ten snipers… some of whom have not been identified, have made those incredible shots. The first sniper to do this was Gunnery Sergeant Carlos …

Russia has sent nuclear specialists to help monitor the Zaporizhzhya power plant in Ukraine’s southeast, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The agency said that Kyiv reported the information to IAEA. The nuclear plant, which is under Russian control but still operated by Ukrainian staff amid heavy fighting between …

The U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says there is credible evidence that Russian forces have been rounding up people in areas of Ukraine’s south and east and detaining them in “filtration camps,” where they are interrogated. Ambassador Michael Carpenter told the Permanent Council …

A former U.S. Marine was killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces as Russia launched new attacks in eastern Ukraine, shortly after two British citizens were detained at a checkpoint inside the country. Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, was working with a private military contracting company when he was killed on Monday, …

The U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said this week that the Biden administration supports legislation that calls for some of the proceeds being seized from Russian oligarchs to go directly to Ukraine.  “That’s not the current circumstance,” Garland told the Senate Appropriations Committee as lawmakers questioned him about the property …

Mali’s military government has accused France of spying after the French military released drone video of what it said were Russian mercenaries staging a mass grave near a military base the French handed back to Mali. Mali’s military government on Tuesday night accused France of spying and deliberately violating its …

by Gatimu Juma A Mali jihadist group claimed that it captured a fighter from Russia’s privately owned Wagner military group. “In the first week of April, (we) captured a soldier of the Russian Wagner forces in the Segou region in central Mali,” the GSIM (the Group to Support Islam and …