Ukraine: SBU detains suspects behind bombing near Zhytomyr police station

Five people involved in the Nov. 20 terrorist attack near a police station in downtown Zhytomyr have been detained, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported on Nov. 27, posting photos of a joint operation with the National Police. A 46-year-old Read More …

Ukraine’s border with Belarus in Zhytomyr Oblast “sealed entirely”

Vitalii Bunechko, Head of the Zhytomyr Oblast Military Administration, believes the chances of a Russian offensive across Zhytomyr Oblast are “very small,” because the border is well protected, particularly by fortifications, and heavily mined. According to Bunechko, the fortification work Read More …

Belarus: Stash with improvised explosive device parts found at Belarusian-Ukrainian border

A stash with components for making explosive devices has been found at the border with Ukraine, BelTA learned from the spokesman of the State Border Committee of Belarus Anton Bychkovsky. Anton Bychkovsky said that a Belarusian border patrol found a Read More …

500,000 mines strategically placed along Ukraine’s northern border

The areas of Ukraine that border the Russian Federation, including Kyiv, Volyn, Rivne, and Zhytomyr, have been mined with a total of 500,000 mines Colonel Vladyslav Seleznov, former head of the press service of the Ukrainian General Staff, revealed this Read More …

Walls, Mines and Motivated Men: Ukraine’s Border With Belarus

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are currently bracing themselves for any potential Russian offensive, with Belarusian troops, all along Ukraine’s northwestern border, a heavily forested area full of forbidding wetlands, as well as the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Among the Read More …

Ukraine: Three emergency services workers killed while demining Kherson rehion

Three Ukrainian emergency services workers were killed on Saturday when a mine exploded while they were demining parts of the Kherson region, said the emergency service of another region, in which they served. “All three selflessly served in the emergency Read More …