KYIV, Dec 2 (Reuters) – A group of people tried to take a mural by graffiti artist Banksy in Ukraine on Friday by cutting it off a battle-scarred wall where it was painted, the governor slot88 of Kyiv region said.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is now in its tenth month.
Moscow’s forces were pushed back from around Kyiv in the first phase of the war, but fighting rages on in the east and south. (Reporting by Tom Balmforth; editing by Andrew Heavens)
“These images are, after all, symbols of our struggle against the enemy … We’ll do everything to preserve these works of street art as a symbol of our victory,” he said.
Innocent people are dying en masse in Europe, again,” Piotr Cywinski said in an address to an audience including Holocaust survivors. “Similar sick megalomania, similar lust for power, and similar-sounding myths about uniqueness, greatness, primacy … only written in Russian.
General Sir Richard, who was the deputy supreme commander of Nato when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014, likened the current situation to the months leading up to the Second World War and said Western nations have to push for the ‘defeat of Putinism’ and the ‘defeat of the Putin regime’.
Most missile strikes on the city now come from within Russia itself – the border being just 20 miles away – with Ukraine largely unable to strike back since it is prohibited from using western weapons to attack Russia.
The Prosecutor General’s Office and the SBU security service said the former officials prevented the Ukrainian National Guard from building fortifications at a key airport on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv in January to February last year as the threat of Russia’s full-scale invasion loomed.
The prime minister, who is expected to arrive in Australia late on Tuesday, will hold a one-on-one with his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern in Sydney later this week for the annual meeting between the two nations’ leaders.
Dimayev was riding in a military SUV through the village of Kamyshevakha, Luhansk province, when it was hit by a Ukrainian shell, according to the site – which is thought to have links to Russian intelligence.
Heavy rain over the weekend has seen more than 32,000 people across NSW – mostly in Greater Sydney – urged to leave their homes while another 6,000 are on alert on Monday.
He added: “A war intended to crush and fragment a people, has instead made you stronger, more united, more convinced of your identity and place in the world, your language, your culture, your European vocation.
KYIV, Jan 2 (Reuters) – The suspected mastermind behind the removal of a Banksy mural in a Ukrainian town could face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty, Ukraine’s interior ministry said on Monday.
We’ll do everything to preserve these works of street art as a symbol of our victory,” he said. “These images are, after all, symbols of our struggle against the enemy …
‘This war is only going one way,’ Miss Zarivna said.
‘The Russian armed forces and public in general can see this is becoming a historic humiliation. Hopefully the retreat from Kherson will force wiser heads in the Kremlin to seek a pragmatic way out of this disaster that they have got themselves into.’
Antonov Airport in Hostomel, an international cargo terminal with a long runway built to handle the world’s largest cargo plane the Antonov An-225 – or “Mriya” – was a key target of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s planned assault on Kyiv.
When visiting that cemetery in Kyiv, I came across a family who invited me to share brandy and biscuits as they remembered Anton, another fallen hero in his 20s.
His mother wept, shaking with grief, while gently stroking her son’s portrait.
As Kyiv steadily modernises tactics and weapons with the help of Nato allies, one curious aspect of the war has been how Russian military leaders seem bizarrely stuck in the past.
Another showed two children using a metal tank trap as a seesaw, while a separate piece in nearby Irpin showed a rhythmic gymnast waving a ribbon while wearing a neck brace.
A local cleric showed Mr Martin the site and an associated exhibition of graphic photographs of exhumed bodies and pictures of civilians left dead on the streets of the suburb when Russian forces retreated.
Australia will provide 34 additional armoured vehicles to Ukraine as part of a $100 million military aid package and prohibit Russian gold imports, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced.