Tag: Putin’s War
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US: Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine
The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, insisting that “justice must be served” ... -
GOP leaders start laying groundwork for more Ukraine aid
Testimony on Russian war crimes. Monthly classified briefings. High-profile hearings, TV appearances and even op-eds in conservative media outlets. Leading Republicans in Congress are not waiting ... -
Russia says phone use allowed Ukraine to target its troops
Unauthorized use of cell phones by Russian soldiers led to a deadly Ukrainian rocket attack on the facility where they were stationed, according to the Russian ... -
Ukraine aims to develop air-to-air combat drones: minister
Ukraine has bought some 1,400 drones, mostly for reconnaissance, and plans to develop combat models that can attack the exploding drones Russia has used during its ... -
Zelenskyy to meet Biden, address Congress as war rages on
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was making his way to Washington yesterday for a summit with President Joe Biden and to address Congress in his first known ... -
Night-time drone attack hits Kyiv as Russian leader heads to Belarus
Multiple explosive drones attacked Ukraine’s capital before dawn yesterday, local authorities reported, as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to visit ally Belarus, which provided the Kremlin’s ... -
EU, Western Balkans to boost partnership
European Union leaders and their Western Balkan counterparts worked to strengthen their partnership at a summit yesterday as Russia’s war in Ukraine threatens to reshape the ... -
Russia rejects $60-a-barrel cap on its oil, warns of cutoffs
Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country’s oil set by Ukraine’s Western supporters and threatened yesterday [Macau time] to stop supplying the nations that ... -
Ukraine welcomes arms offers, no word on Patriot missiles
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia’s weeks-long assault on Ukraine’s power grid, saying as NATO scrambled yesterday to scrape up replacement electrical gear that ... -
Pope links plight of Ukrainians today to Stalin’s ‘genocide’
Pope Francis yesterday [Macau time] linked the suffering of Ukrainians now to the 1930s “genocide artificially caused by Stalin,” when the Soviet leader was blamed for ... -
UK PM Sunak makes surprise trip to Kyiv, boosts defense aid
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine’s ... -
A ‘barbed wire curtain’ rises in Europe amid war in Ukraine
The long border between Finland and Russia runs through thick forests and is marked only by wooden posts with low fences meant to stop stray cattle. ... -
Poland, NATO say missile landing wasn’t Russian attack
Poland said yesterday there is “absolutely no indication” that a missile which came down in Polish farmland, killing two people, was a intentional attack on the ... -
Ukraine FM: Moscow playing ‘hunger games’ with world
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba pressed Southeast Asian countries for political and material support in his county’s fight against Russia, while accusing Moscow on Saturday of ... -
Zelenskyy: Talks with Russia possible on Ukraine’s terms
Ukraine’s president has hinted at the possibility of peace talks with Russia, a shift from his earlier refusal to negotiate with President Vladimir Putin that came ... -
Germany’s Scholz urges Xi to exert influence on Russia
In a much-scrutinized meeting Friday with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged China to exert its influence on Russia, while the Chinese ... -
Global concern on Russia’s suspension of Ukraine grain deal
U.S. President Joe Biden warned that global hunger could increase because of Russia’s suspension of a U.N.-brokered deal to allow safe passage for ships carrying Ukrainian ... -
Russia evacuates occupied Ukrainian city, orders martial law
Russian forces launched mass evacuations of civilians yesterday from one of the first major cities they seized in the invasion of Ukraine — a tacit acknowledgement ... -
Russia blasts Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities in deadly strikes
Russia unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities yesterday, smashing civilian targets including downtown Kyiv where at least six people were killed amid ... -
‘War crime:’ Industrial-scale destruction of Ukraine culture
The exquisite golden tiara, inlaid with precious stones by master craftsmen some 1,500 years ago, was one of the world’s most valuable artifacts from the blood-letting ... -
Russian missile strikes keep hitting Ukraine as POW’s swap underway
Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanged missile and artillery barrages yesterday as both sides refused to concede ground despite recent military setbacks for Moscow and the toll ... -
Ukraine warns of ‘nuclear terrorism’ after strike near plant
A Russian missile struck close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine without damaging the three reactors but hit other industrial equipment yesterday in what Ukrainian ... -
Shelling resumes near Ukraine nuclear plant, despite risks
Russia resumed shelling in the vicinity of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a local official said yesterday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency pressed ... -
IAEA to visit Ukraine nuclear plant amid renewed shelling
The U.N. nuclear watchdog yesterday injected a ray of hope in the standoff over the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine ...
