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He was a kickboxing athlete and world champion in the national team of Ukraine and was posthumously awarded as Hero of Ukraine. [19] [20] On 1 April, Yuriy Ruf, a poet, was killed while fighting Russian forces in Luhansk. [21] On 7 April, Oleksii Yanin, former world kick-boxing champion, was killed in battle in Mariupol. [22]
Due to concerns that Russia was not reporting the number or any casualties of soldiers in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry began issuing appeals that same day for relatives of Russian soldiers to help identify wounded, captured, or killed soldiers. The initiative, called Ishchi Svoikh (Russian: Ищи Своих, lit.
The first warship-class built in the independent Ukraine was expected to produce its first vessel in 2016. [2] [3] As of 24 March 2014, all of the larger ships but one (the Ukrainian frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy) of the Ukrainian Navy were captured by the Russian Black Sea Fleet. [4] Some ships Russia returned to Ukraine (35 vessels in total). [5]
On 3 March 2022, while at anchor, the MV Helt struck a free-floating mine in the Black Sea, south of Odesa, Ukraine. [11] The Helt was not carrying any cargo at the time, and according to the Ukrainian military, was forced into a dangerous area of the Black Sea. [12] The six crew onboard all managed to escape and were rescued by Ukrainian ...
Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead. Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and ...
Vasily Bekh — On 17 June 2022, Ukraine claimed to have sunk the rescue tug (Russian: Спасатель, "Spasatel") Vasily Bekh with two Harpoon missiles, causing it to sink shortly thereafter. [45] On 21 June, British military intelligence confirmed the attack, stating that the vessel sunk was almost certainly Vasily Bekh. [46]
The soldiers admitted, however, that supply shortages, delays in receiving weapons promised by the West, and communication frustrations have challenged their spirits after months of battle.
In 1990 the submarine was transferred to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, [2] serving there until 1994. [2] In 1995, the submarine's batteries permanently failed and she was abandoned. In 1997 unable to fix the unused submarine, the administration of Russian Navy handed it over to the Ukrainian Navy during the partition of the Black Sea Fleet. [2]