Tag: Ukraine War
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Russia says Ukraine is launching major attacks; Kyiv accuses Moscow of misinformation
Ukrainian forces were making a major effort to punch through Russian defensive lines in southeast Ukraine for a second day, a Moscow-installed official said yesterday as ... -
Zelenskyy: Ukraine counteroffensive needs more time, launching now would cost too many lives
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s military needs more time to prepare an anticipated counteroffensive aimed at pushing back Russian occupying forces and opening a ... -
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 ... -
Pope in final Mass in Budapest urges Hungary to open doors
Pope Francis urged Hungarians to open their doors to others on Sunday, as he wrapped up a weekend visit with a plea for Europe to welcome ... -
AP image of Mariupol hospital attack wins World Press Photo
Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the Year award yesterday for his harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman ... -
US-made Patriot guided missile systems arrive in Ukraine
American-made Patriot missiles have arrived in Ukraine, the country’s defense minister said yesterday, providing Kyiv with a long-sought new shield against the Russian airstrikes that have ... -
US, Ukraine say many war secrets safe from intel leaks
Ukraine’s leaders say they don’t see a major U.S. intelligence leak as gravely damaging future offensives. A key reason: They have long held back on sharing their most ... -
Ukraine to probe video allegedly showing soldier’s beheading
Ukraine promised yesterday to investigate a gruesome video circulating on social media that purportedly shows the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier. The video spread quickly online ... -
Ukraine, Russia send home around 200 troops in prisoner swap
More than 200 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have returned home in a prisoner swap, the warring countries said yesterday [Macau time]. Russia’s Defense Ministry said 106 Russian soldiers ... -
New Zealand tells Beijing its concern on lethal aid to Russia
New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has expressed concern to China over any provision of lethal aid to support Russia in its war against Ukraine during ... -
Ukraine: Objects of war become new normal in Kyiv scenery
There are sandbags around the statues and anti-tank obstacles by the side of the streets, trenches in the nearby forests and land mine warnings in the ... -
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 ... -
Global food prices in 2022 hit record high amid drought, war
Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine months in a row, ... -
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 war, US-China tensions loom over big Bali summit
A showdown between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin isn’t happening, but fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and growing tensions between China and the West ... -
Zelenskyy calls liberation of Kherson ‘beginning of the end’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a triumphant visit to the newly liberated city of Kherson yesterday, hailing the Russian withdrawal as the “beginning of the end ... -
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 ... -
How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians
Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six ... -
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 ... -
Water crisis looms for eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk
The echo of artillery shells thundering in the distance mingles with the din of people gathered around Sloviansk’s public water pumps, piercing the uneasy quiet that ... -
First ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa
The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain set off from the port of Odesa yesterday under a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey that is ... -
Drone explosion hits Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters
A small explosive device carried by a makeshift drone blew up yesterday at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet on the Crimean Peninsula, wounding six ... -
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 steps up strikes on Ukraine amid counterattacks
Russian forces yesterday launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine’s Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that haven’t been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation ... -
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 ...
