The man, who has not been named, is accused of opening fire on a couple from Donetsk as they drove to Bakhmut to reach their elderly parents.Īt the time, the Ukrainian military was conducting aerial reconnaissance of the area and recorded the shooting. And the UN nuclear watchdog has concluded that no explosives are on the roof of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, contradicting President Zelenskyy's earlier claim that Russia may have placed mines there.Ī Russian commander will be tried in Ukraine for shooting civilians in a car while they were travelling to rescue their parents, according to Kyiv's prosecutor general's office.Moscow and Beijing have been carrying out navy exercises in the Bering Sea to practice destroying submarines.Ukraine's security service claimed Russia is preparing a 'false flag' attack on a Belarusian oil refinery, based on information from several sources, including a captured Russian serviceman.Ukraine then appeared to claim responsibility, with a nighttime video filmed aboard an unmanned sea drone showing it driving into the ship's port side, without being fired upon The attack damaged a Russian navy ship.Russia said Ukraine attacked a navy base in near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in the early hours - if confirmed, it would be the first Ukrainian strike on a main commercial port inside Russia.The fighting professionalism of these men, who deployed to France with just six white officers and who got their first black CO in 1945, did help give President Harry Truman the justification he needed to end segregation in the US military in 1948.If you're just joining us this afternoon, here's a recap of the main developments so far today: In the years that followed, especially as they watched the civil rights struggle of the 1960s generation, the men of the 761st could have been forgiven for wondering exactly what had changed. “That is the spirit which will some day wipe every trace of racial bigotry off the map of America.”īut when he returned from the fighting and dying, Johnnie Stevens found some things hadn’t changed. “It is perfectly true,” the report acknowledged, “that US Negroes have never had a square deal from the US white majority, but now, when their country needs them, they are glad to work and fight and die alongside their white fellow citizens. In June 1942, under the headline “All they want now is a fair chance to fight”, Life magazine had reported on the first black soldiers training for tank warfare. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Modern day black tank military