Tag: Ukraine crisis
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Russia targets Kyiv with drones, killing three and wounding at least 30
Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said yesterday. At least 30 people were wounded, seven of them children, in ... -
NATO needs to come to its senses as it is charging toward confrontation with China
In a communique that NATO released during its summit in Washington on Wednesday, the transatlantic military alliance not only declared Ukraine was on an “irreversible” path ... -
Disparaging of Orban’s shuttle diplomacy belies NATO’s transition in purpose
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban described his Monday visit to Beijing as “Peace Mission 3.0”. Orban and Chinese President Xi Jinping have demonstrated similar positions on ... -
Nine killed as Russian missile slams into pizza restaurant in east Ukraine city
A Russian missile attack that hit a crowded pizza restaurant in an eastern Ukrainian city killed at least nine people, including three children, authorities said yesterday, ... -
Nuclear watchdog’s worries grow over Ukraine plant safety
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog is expressing growing anxiety about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, after the governor of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Ukraine cites success in downing drones, fixes energy sites
Ukrainian authorities tried to dampen public fears over Russia’s use of Iranian drones by claiming increasing success yesterday in shooting them down, while the Kremlin’s talk ... -
Vote in Ukraine’s Russia-held areas stokes tension with West
Referendums that are expected to serve as a pretext for Moscow to annex Russian-held regions of Ukraine reached their final day of voting yesterday as the ... -
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy visits recently retaken, devastated city
His hand on his heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched as his country’s flag was hoisted yesterday above the recently recaptured city of Izium, a rare ... -
Death toll from train station attack in Ukraine rises to 25
The death toll from a Russian rocket attack as Ukraine observed its Independence Day has risen to 25, including an 11-year-old boy found under the rubble ... -
Russia and West vie for influence in Africa
Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most ... -
Russia FM visits Egypt, part of Africa trip amid Ukraine war
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was in Cairo for talks yesterday with Egyptian officials as his country seeks to break diplomatic isolation and sanctions by the ... -
Russia pounds major Ukrainian city after expanding war aims
Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s second- largest city yesterday, killing at least three people and injuring at least 23 others with a ... -
Russia strikes south Ukraine city, presses attacks in east
Russian missiles hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine yesterday as a funeral was held for a 4-year-old girl killed in an earlier ... -
Officials: Russian missiles kill at least 20 in Ukraine
Russian missiles that struck a city in central Ukraine killed at least 20 people and wounded about 90 more yesterday, Ukrainian authorities said. The country’s president ... -
Minister: Ukraine needs assurances to resume grain exports
The Ukrainian foreign minister says grain exports from his country’s ports won’t resume without security guarantees for ship owners, cargo owners and Ukraine as an independent ... -
Ukraine granted extra EU aid of 1 billion euros
European Union nations yesterday approved fresh aid for Ukraine as the country faces growing economic damage from Russia’s invasion. Finance ministers from the 27-nation EU gave ... -
Putin extends fast-track Russian citizenship to all Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree yesterday expanding a fast-track procedure to receive Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, in yet another effort to expand Moscow’s ... -
EU chief warns of danger of complete cut-off of Russian gas
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday that the 27-nation European Union needs to make emergency plans to prepare for a complete cut-off of ... -
Russia declares victory in embattled Donbas region of Luhansk
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday declared victory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, one day after Ukrainian forces withdrew from their last remaining bulwark of ... -
Ukraine’s leader pushes for fuller NATO embrace, more arms
Ukraine’s president chided NATO for not embracing his embattled country more fully and asked for more weapons to fight off Russia, as the leaders of the ... -
Russian missile strike hits crowded shopping mall in Ukraine
Russian long-range bombers struck a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine’s central city of Kremenchuk with a missile on Monday, raising fears of what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ... -
‘Everything is on fire’: Ukraine region weathers bombardment
Russian attacks laid down a curtain of fire yesterday across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full military control of the ... -
Morale is concern as NATO chief warns war could last ‘years’
Four months of brutal fighting in Ukraine appear to be straining the morale of troops on both sides, prompting desertions and rebellion against officers’ orders, British ... -
In Ukraine, mines take lives even after fighting moves on
The truck driver had the radio on, his daughter’s stuffed toy keeping him company, and was bouncing his lumbering vehicle down one of the innumerable dirt ... -
The battle of Donbas could prove decisive in Ukraine conflict
Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial ... -
Ukraine’s leader says his troops keep defying predictions
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said no one knows how long the war in his country will last but that Ukrainian forces are defying expectations by preventing ... -
More bodies found in Mariupol as global food crisis looms
Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said yesterday [Macau time], while ... -
Ukrainian forces could pull back from embattled eastern city
Ukrainian forces battling Russian troops in a key eastern city appeared on the cusp of retreat yesterday, though the regional governor insisted they are still fighting ... -
UK pledges missiles to Ukraine; new US ambassador in Kyiv
Britain pledged yesterday to send sophisticated medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine, joining the United States and Germany in equipping the embattled nation with advanced weapons for ... -
Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine
The Biden administration says it will send Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been begging for ... -
Russian troops storm city amid eastern Ukraine bombardments
Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city yesterday as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds ... -
Russia presses Donbas attacks as Polish leader praises Kyiv
Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland’s president traveled to Kyiv to support the country’s European Union aspirations, becoming the first foreign ...
