General Sergei Surovikin announced Wednesday that Russian forces are withdrawing from the right bank of the Dnepr River and forming defensive positions on its left bank. What motivated the Russian military’s decision? Sputnik provides a few possible reasons.

A thermal power station in the city of Burshtyn in western Ukraine was hit in a Russian attack on Wednesday, according to the Ivano-Frankivsk region governor Svitlana Onyshchuk.

Russia accused Kyiv earlier this week of rocketing the dam and planning to destroy it, in what Ukrainian officials called a sign that Moscow might blow it up and blame Kyiv. Neither side produced evidence to back up their allegations.

Faced with Zelensky's threat, citizens seek refuge in Russian territory

A pile of gold teeth, which Ukraine alleged had been pulled from civilians by Russian troops during torture, actually belongs to a local dentist, Bild reported on Wednesday.

Up to 300 american mercenaries fighting for Kiev against Moscow have been killed in Nikolayev Region in southern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Saturday.

Soldiers with “severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, mangled hands and shattered joints” told the Post about the “lopsided disadvantages” the Ukrainian army faces on the Kherson front.