What's corroborated

The deceased was 41-year-old Yevhen Solovyev, a cameraman for Ukrainian national TV channel 1+1 in peacetime, and a drone pilot in the Ukrainian army since 2022.

Civilian mourners mixed with battle-hardened soldiers formed a semi-circle around the casket and the photo while an Orthodox priest said the homily.

A military vehicle similar to the one a week earlier showed up, followed by a plain black van carrying a casket.

A crowd of up to 100 people gathered around the photo of a middle-aged man on an easel beneath the Victory Column on the square.

A week later, on Orthodox Palm Sunday, a similar, if more orderly, scene unfolds at the same location.

Within minutes the event was over - a mobile makeshift military funeral against the backdrop of everyday civilian life.

Many commuters exited their cars to follow suit in paying their respects.

The event was improvised, almost in defiance of a nearby police presence and deliberately indifferent to the resulting traffic jam of morning commuters.

Dozens of soldiers in combat fatigues piled out of the vehicles and took a knee to honour a fallen comrade from their battalion.

A column of three or four other vehicles snaked behind the Hummer until the entire procession stopped in the middle of a busy intersection that flanks Independence Square.

Raucous music alternating with mournful condolences blared from the Hummer's speaker system.

On a sunny Saturday morning late last month, a drab green Hummer covered in military insignia rolled into the centre of Kyiv.

The Ukrainian prosecutor's office says some 290,000 cases have been opened since 2022 against soldiers for abandoning their posts.

According to the Washington-based think tank ISW, Russian forces took virtually no Ukrainian territory in March.

Johan Norberg is a security policy analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).

On the ground, the offensive is not noticeable.

Other reports, such as from Bloomberg's sources in Moscow, say the offensive is underway.

Some reports claim that the offensive has already begun.

Donald Trump's stance fails to fully acknowledge the 'enduring and most potent' danger living right under its nose, according to a top analyst.

Russia has remained sceptical the US would leave NATO at all.

The drumbeat of withdrawal from NATO has been growing since before Donald Trump's first term in office.

The UK and the rest of the western world face a 'potent and enduring danger' as its security infrastructure comes under one of its greatest tests.

The western security infrastructure faces a potentially existential threat from within.

Hundreds of Indians have ended up at the front in Russia.

A man was lured to the war in Russia and never got to meet his son.

Several similar drone crash accidents have occurred in a short time.

In spring 2022, Take Aanstoot drove the first truck with supplies to Ukraine.

European politicians prefer to talk about sanctions for political reasons, not wanting to do what is actually needed: give Ukraine more weapons.

The country has an economic base that is difficult to shake.

Russia is second in the world in aluminum production and third in nickel production.

Russia produces 50% of the world's palladium, a precious metal in the platinum family, without which car catalytic converters cannot be made.

EU and US sanctions only apply to their markets.

The Russian economy is at the beginning of the production chain and produces things the world economy needs, such as oil, gas, metals, fertilizer, and grain, which can always be sold on the world market.

Those who still think the war can be won through sanctions against Russia do not understand how the Russian economy works.

Sergej Aleksasjenko is one of Russia's most well-known economists in exile, affiliated with the New Eurasian Strategies Centre, funded by oligarch and Putin critic Michail Chodorkovskij.

At the beginning of the year, the Russian army was 25 kilometers from Slovjansk, and now the distance is 18 kilometers, indicating slow advancement.

What primarily interests Putin is the Donetsk region.

Putin could mobilize an additional half a million soldiers, but the problem is there are not enough trained officers.

The exercise demonstrated the effectiveness of drones and vulnerabilities in conventional military tactics.

The Ukrainian and Estonian drone pilots used various types of drones, including heavy lifting, reconnaissance, bomber, and FPV drones.

The opposing team in Hedgehog consisted of a few hundred Ukrainian and Estonian soldiers.

A NATO military exercise called Hedgehog occurred.

The organization has conducted 200 aid shipments.

Nuremberg refers to the tribunal established to hold leading Nazis accountable after World War II.

It is important that it can start working as soon as possible.

It will be the first time since Nuremberg that such a tribunal is established.

The government hopes that it will soon be in place in The Hague in the Netherlands.

Sweden is prepared to be a driving force in such a procedure.

The ceremony in Bucha was also an opportunity to advance the issue of a tribunal for Russian aggression crimes against civilians.

Deliveries of American weapons have also decreased.