
Alarm in Ukraine over increasing number of army deserters
At least 80,000 soldiers have deserted their units so far during the war with Russia, more than half of them in the first eight months of 2024

At least 80,000 soldiers have deserted their units so far during the war with Russia, more than half of them in the first eight months of 2024

Kyiv is promoting new emergency measures to ensure the return of millions of citizens who have left the country due to the Russian invasion

Nearly 10 million people need help dealing with anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from the Russian invasion

A leaflet distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry depicts Kyiv’s forces as depraved in the face of a model invading army

Hundreds of thousands of troops are at risk of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when they return from the front and the Kremlin has no support network in place

The decline in support for Zelenskiy on his trip to the US confirms the change of tone among Kyiv’s partners in favor of negotiations with the Kremlin

The latest tactic is to get employees to recommend friends for jobs in a country where 55% of the population earns around $600 per month
More than 40,000 Ukrainians have fled since the start of the war to avoid going to the front despite martial law being in force, which prohibits men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country
The Kremlin’s forces are advancing on the Donetsk front while Kyiv’s troops are stuck in Russian territory following their surprise incursion
The scientist who set up Russia’s first Internet provider in 1990 was charged in 2019 with alleged domain name hijacking

The story of José Arón Medina and Alexander Ante, who fought in the war in Ukraine before stopping in Venezuela on their way home, remains shrouded in mystery

The Asian country, a signatory to the Rome Statute, is obliged to arrest the Russian leader but the Kremlin issued a message of calm: ‘All the details of the president’s visit have been carefully prepared, of course’

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have called on the UN to take action against Kyiv over its alleged support for ‘terrorism in Africa’

The platform’s chief executive has been arrested in France. Speculation about the motives for his detention makes it more difficult to understand the consequences of a surprising decision

EL PAÍS accesses the Russian territories occupied by Ukraine, where Kyiv’s soldiers are optimistic for the first time after a year of fighting on the back foot

The USS ‘Halibut,’ under the command of Jack McNish, was a vessel with experience in secret operations and carried very advanced equipment for the 1970s
Russian troops are approaching Pokrovsk, a key defensive city in the Donbas region, while Kyiv’s forces are starting to construct defensive lines in the border region into which an incursion was launched earlier this month

Investigators also point to two other Ukrainians as being part of a team of divers who placed explosives on the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany

The case of the couple who posed as Argentines and whose children did not know they were Russian before being exchanged in a prisoner swap shows the importance that Vladimir Putin places on deep-cover agents

The political leader of one of the provinces hardest hit by the Russian invasion says that military aid and permission from the Western allies to attack targets on enemy soil are yielding results
The use of the Danube and Constanta ports in Romania, coupled with the success of securing the Odesa-Bosphorus route, has boosted Ukrainian grain exports to near pre-war levels

The president of Ukraine wants to organize conferences on energy and food security, and the return of prisoners of war and deported minors, between July and September. Moscow is refusing to participate in a second round of dialogue

The Office of the President of Ukraine affirms that, in a few months, the country must agree with its international allies on the roadmap to negotiating with the invader

Kyiv has documented the deportation of thousands of minors who are stripped of their identity and nationality and handed over to Russian families
The leaders of Russia and North Korea finalized a comprehensive partnership document in Pyongyang, which does ‘not exclude developing military-technical cooperation’

Ukrainian soldiers warn that the invading forces are gaining positions through the use of these vehicles, which are more difficult to identify and intercept
There are up to 56 active conflicts across the globe, with an increasingly international component: 92 countries are involved in wars outside their borders