What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week?


 A Russian fighter collided with a US Reaper drone on Tuesday, forcing it down into the Black Sea, in what US forces called an unsafe and unprofessional intercept.There are open military lines of communication and longstanding conflict de-escalation mechanisms in place to stop scenarios getting out of hand, but every time something like this happens, the world uses up a little bit more of its luck.

Russia ratcheted up its efforts to take Bakhmut in early February after months of intense fighting, and has since inched into the small city’s suburbs. Ukraine’s forces have been fighting off attacks from the north, east and south. Their only road out, to the west, has been under Russian artillery fire.




Kyiv has compiled hundreds of dossiers, naming more than 600 Russians – many of them high-ranking political and military officials – as suspects. The suspects range from senior officials including the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, to a lesser-known colonel believed to be responsible for some of the most brutal aerial attacks on Ukraine. High profiled some of the commanders and generals accused by Ukraine, based on interviews with former soldiers, defence officials and open-source data.As Georgian protesters marched on their parliament against a draft “foreign agents” law this week, they bore signs that said “No to Russian law!”, and other placards decrying the spirit of autocracy and imperialism that is now firmly associated with Moscow’s influence in the region.







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