Russian troops mount pressure on Ukrainian logistics hub
Ukraine’s top commander said on Monday that Russian forces were staging relentless assaults to try to advance towards the town of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in the east, and ...
EU unity tested
Orban’s Russian and Chinese visits infuriates the EU, Hungary describes them as peace missions
European Union foreign ministers will evaluate how to respond to trips by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Russia and China and his country’s positioning over the EU’s ...
Russia makes fifth drone attack on Kyiv in two weeks, Ukraine’s military says
Russia launched its fifth drone attack on Kyiv in two weeks with Ukraine’s air defence systems destroying all the air weapons before they reached the Ukrainian capital, Ukraine’s ...
Russian court jails US reporter Gershkovich for 16 years in spying case his employer calls a sham
A Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage on Friday and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in what his employer, the ...
Russia, Ukraine exchange 190 prisoners in third swap in weeks
Russia and Ukraine conducted a major exchange of prisoners on Wednesday, 190 in all,in their third such swap over the past seven weeks, following negotiations mediated by the United Arab ...
Russia’s Medvedev says Ukraine joining NATO would mean war
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the accession of Ukraine to NATO would be a declaration of war against Moscow and only “prudence” on behalf of the alliance could prevent ...
Arms race gathers pace as Russia and US plan to redeploy once-banned weapons
Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s – a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within ...
Ukrainians struggle with scorching heat amid power crisis
On some evenings, Ukrainian mother Margaryta Zakharchuk wanders around her neighbourhood in the sweltering heat waiting for the electricity to come back on so she can take the lift to ...
Ukraine’s mobilisation campaign picks up despite faltering enthusiasm
Seeing the military patrol handing out call-up papers on the outskirts of Kyiv, one man slipped into a nearby store. Another refused to even stop for the officers. Others, however, ...
Yandex split nears completion as Russian traders finalise share exchange
Russian traders have finalised a share exchange for investors in Yandex, often dubbed Russia’s Google, one of the final steps needed to complete a more than $5 billion deal that ...
‘It’s a mistake,’ Zelenskiy says of Biden’s Putin mix up
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his U.S counterpart Joe Biden accidentally referring to him as Russian President Vladimir Putin was a mistake that could be forgotten about given all ...
Kremlin says Biden was disrespectful of Putin and whole world noticed his gaffes
The Kremlin said on Friday that the whole world had paid attention to Joe Biden’s verbal slips at a NATO summit and said the way the U.S. president ...
Russia tried to assassinate CEO of arms firm sending weapons to Ukraine, CNN reports
U.S. intelligence discovered earlier this year that Russia planned to assassinate the chief executive of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall RHMG.DE which has been producing artillery shells and military ...
Former president Medvedev says Moscow should seek ‘disappearance’ of Ukraine and NATO
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday denounced NATO’s summit promise to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said Russia should work towards the “disappearance” of both Ukraine and ...
F-16s’ arrival not a silver bullet for Ukraine
The first batch of U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets are already being transferred to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands and will be flying over Ukrainian skies this summer, ...
Russia promises to discharge Indians ‘misled’ into joining its army
Russia has promised to discharge Indians who were falsely induced to join its army, an issue Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised at talks with President Vladimir Putin, an Indian official ...
Ukraine will stop Putin, Biden tells NATO in forceful speech
US President Joe Biden pledged to forcefully defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasionat the NATO summit in Washington on Tuesday, using the global stage to try to show allies at ...
UN assessment suggests Ukraine children’s hospital hit by Russian missile
A lethal strike on a children’s hospital in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was likely caused by a direct hit from a Russian missile, the head of the U.N. ...
Kremlin says Kyiv children’s hospital was hit by Ukrainian anti-missile fire, not by Russia
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Ukrainian anti-missile fire, not Russia, had hit a children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov provided no evidence to support ...
Russia says one dead, energy facilities on fire after Ukraine’s ‘massive’ drone attacks
One person was killed, two power substations and an oil depot caught fire after Ukraine launched “tens” of drones in a series of “massive” attacks launched across several Russian regions, ...
Russian missile attack kills 41, hits children’s hospital, Ukraine says
Russia blasted the main children’s hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians ...
Hungary’s Orban talks Ukraine peace with Putin, stirring EU outcry
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks on a potential Ukrainian peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, angering some European Union leaders who warned against appeasing Moscow ...
Time running out for Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s advance
In the devastated eastern Ukrainian town of Toretsk, time is running out for anyone wanting to leave.
Russian forces are advancing slowly but surely, pummelling the town night and day ...
How Raiffeisen’s bet on Russia took it to the brink
For more than four months, US envoys delivered increasingly shrill warnings to Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBIV.VI) to scrap a deal they said had links to one of ...