Zelenskyy denounces abduction of Melitopol mayor, reports 1,300 Ukrainian troops lost: LIVE UPDATES
The Russian military broadened its attacks on Friday, targeting an airfield in the west and a major industrial hub in the east. The Ukrainians also said the Russians shelled a cancer hospital south of Kyiv and a mosque in Mariupol where more than 80 people were hiding.
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Putin successfully implementing proactive US developed strategy while US lags behind: expert
A former U.S. intelligence official tells Fox News Digital that Russia has embraced over the years a similar plan to an American military concept known as the OODA loop which enables one side to react to unfolding events more rapidly and efficiently than an opponent.
The OODA loop, which stands for observe, orient, decide, act and was developed by U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd and is defined by Tech-Target as a "four-step approach to decision-making that focuses on filtering available information, putting it in context and quickly making the most appropriate decision while also understanding that changes can be made as more data becomes available."
The strategy is especially useful, according to Tech-Target, in "scenarios where competition is involved and where the ability to react to changing circumstances faster than an opponent leads to an advantage."
Rebekah Koffler, a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency agent and author of "Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America" told Fox News Digital that the Russians have adopted a similar concept.
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Putin's reported arrest of Russian intel official shows frustration with progress of invasion: exper
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly placed one of his top intelligence officials on house arrest, a move that one expert tells Fox News Digital would be a sign that he is seeking to shift blame for a Ukrainian invasion that U.S. intelligence believes has not gone according to plan.
According to a report from the Sunday Times, Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov claims that Putin has arrested the head of the Federal Security Service, Sergey Beseda. Fox News has not independently confirmed this.
Beseda has reportedly been placed on house arrest along with his deputy Anatoly Bolyukh.
The Federal Security Service, known as FSB, is Russia’s top security and counterintelligence apparatus. One former U.S. intelligence officer tells Fox News Digital that the move signals Putin’s dissatisfaction with his intelligence community’s assessment of the Ukrainian invasion.
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Republican lawmakers slam Biden for delayed response in supporting Ukraine
Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher and Florida Rep. Michael Waltz call on the Biden administration to supply Ukraine with 'everything they need' to defeat Russia.
Putin 'has bet everything on this': Lt. Col. Dakota Wood
Lt. Col. Dakota Wood assesses the strength of the Russian and Ukrainian forces.
Daines: Biden, Democrats using Russian oil ban as a 'fig leaf' to cover up 'radical' Green New Deal
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., accused President Biden and Democrats of using the Russian oil ban as a "fig leaf" to cover for their "radical" Green New Deal policy proposals.
Daines made the comments during an interview with FOX Business and said that this isn't just about banning Russian oil: Democrats want to ban all oil."
I think the Democrats are using this ban as a fig leaf to cover up their radical Green New Deal priorities because it's not just about banning Russian oil. They want to ban all oil," Daines said.
He said that while Democrats want to ban Russian oil, they aren't willing to support American oil either.
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Russia expert: Putin 'cornered like a rat' and will do whatever necessary to lash out
Russian President Vladimir Putin is feeling "cornered like a rat" as his Ukrainian invasion lingers into its third week, a former U.S. intelligence officer told Fox News Digital, and his personal history suggests he will continue to lash out in order to regain the upper hand.
Rebekah Koffler, a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency agent and author of "Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America", told Fox News Digital on Saturday that an excerpt from Putin’s 2000 autobiography "First Person" detailing growing up in a dilapidated Leningrad apartment can be applied to his record as the Russian leader and his current invasion of Ukraine.
Putin describes in his book having to traverse several rat infested floors to get to his childhood apartment and that one day he wrote that he grabbed a stick and chased a large rat into a corner. When the rat realized he was trapped, he attacked young Putin forcing him to run away in a moment that apparently impacted the future Russian president.
Koffler said that the childhood story about the rat, and other stories Putin has approved to be told about his personal life, are a conscious effort to convey to the West that he will always strike back when trapped.
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Poland takes in millions of Ukrainians, struggles to meet their needs
Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan looks at the influx of Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
"I'm confused," one Ukrainian refugee in Poland told Fox News. "I don't know in the future what we will do."
Satellite images reveal fires, severe damage to residential buildings in Mariupol
Satellite images taken Saturday reveal destruction and damage to residential buildings, as well as a hospital, in Mariupol, Ukraine, as Russia's ongoing war with the country continues.
The images were taken by Maxar Technologies, a private company in the United States, and show severe damage to several residential buildings throughout the southern Ukrainian city.
The photos show fires, as well as artillery craters left behind from Russia's attack on the city.
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Russians’ diplomatic terms ‘unacceptable’: Ambassador
Amb. Paula Dobriansky criticizes Russia’s diplomatic terms and predicts the likelihood of diplomacy.
Russian forces close in on Kyiv as Ukraine prepares for all-out assault
Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst provides the latest developments from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Russia denies Ukraine's claim that they are taking control of Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant
Russia is denying a Ukrainian claim that the country is trying to take full control of Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant under under the management of the state firm Rosatom, according to a statement from Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
In a telephone call with Grossi, Director General of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev said that while some company personnel were present at the Zaporizhzhya NPP in south-eastern Ukraine, Rosatom had not taken operational control of the plant or intended for it to be controlled under Rosatom's "management system."
In a letter sent to Grossi, the President of Ukraine's nuclear power plant operator Energoatom, Petro Kotin, said around 400 Russian soldiers were “being present full time on site” and stated the plant is currently controlled by the Russian military forces’ commander. Kotin's claim was later denied by the Russian Federation.
Earlier this month, Ukraine warned the IAEA that Russian military forces had taken control of the country’s largest nuclear power plant on March 4.
The Zaporizhzhya NPP is Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant.
What it's like inside Moscow amid Ukraine war: Reporter's Notebook
Rumors have been swirling about possible martial law coming to Russia amid concerns the war in Ukraine could prove the boiling crisis that blows the lid off a controlled society, a sort of hybrid police state with Starbucks and vibrant social media.
That last bit of description, of course, applied only until very recently, when cheerful young baristas were sent home and Instagram was served its death sentence. Most independent news outlets in Russia have been shuttered with writers now in exile to avoid going to jail for as many as 15 years for crossing the Kremlin's latest and arbitrary "fake news" red line.
The last journalistic brand of note left standing in Moscow is Novaya Gazeta. Its editor-in-chief won last year's Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps Novaya is too famous to fail, too feted to flee. But it is now under enormous pressure. The deputy editor told Fox News about the mood in Moscow as he sees it.
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Satellite imagery of artillery craters in fields and damaged buildings in western Mariupol
Satellite imagery of artillery craters in fields and damaged buildings, Zhovteneyvi district, western Mariupol.
Rep. Garcia says Biden should stop disclosing Ukraine strategies
Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., says President Biden's comments describing what he will or won't do in Ukraine could put the U.S. at a disadvantage.
"A good strategist will never disclose what he will or will not do in advance of combat," Garcia, a former Navy pilot, told Fox News Digital. He noted that Biden previously told reporters that he gave Putin a list of 16 U.S. entities that are "off limits" for a Russian cyberattack in June.
Biden previously told reporters that he had no intention of sending American troops to Ukraine and, more recently, no intention of implementing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to avoid U.S. involvement in the war with Russia.
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Zelenskyy says he and Israeli Prime Minister discussed potential for peace talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he and Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed Russian aggression and the potential for peace talks during their conversation by phone.
"We talked about Russian aggression and the prospects for peace talks," Zelenskyy wrote in a tweet.
Ukrainians pay final respects to the reported 1,300 troops lost
A video shared to social media by Ukrainian Parliament Member Inna Sovsun shows Ukrainians paying their last respects to the reported 1,300 troops who lost their lives amid a war with Russia.
"Their sacrifice will not be forgotten or forgiven. Ever," Sovsun wrote.
Zelenskyy issues defiant message to Russia: 'Let them come'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday issued a defiant message to Russian President Vladimir Putin as his forces continue to wage war across Ukraine.
The Pentagon warned this week that Russia has started to make greater advances on Kyiv as convoys threaten the capital city from nearly every direction.
In a news address Saturday, Zelenskyy said Russia will have to "carpet-bomb" the capital and kill its residents if it wants to take the city.
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Ukrainian Parliament Member: Putin is ‘losing’
Former Russian foreign minister: China will 'never' treat Putin as 'equal'
China will never treat Russian President Vladimir Putin as an equal and will prove "ruthless" in any business dealings after crippling sanctions and a drawn-out invasion have left Russia vulnerable, according to a former Russian diplomat.
"Putin might go to China," former Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev told Fox News Digital. "He goes to China because he’s not competitive in other markets and he sells to China the raw materials, but China will never take him as an equal partner or even as ally because they don’t need it."
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Ukraine says it destroyed Russian rocket launcher system
Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service on Saturday released video that supposedly shows the destruction of a Russian multiple rocket launcher system.
The brief video shows an incredible explosion that leaves nothing of the system behind.
Ukraine throughout the invasion has touted its success in destroying Russian vehicles and arms, with its most recent report claiming that Ukrainian forces destroyed 58 aircraft, 382 tanks and 135 artillery pieces, among others.