Russian missile hits houses, apartment block in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv
One person was killed and 23 people, including a child, were wounded in a Russian missile strike on an apartment block and houses in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv in ...
China’s Xi holds first call with Ukraine’s Zelenskiy since Russian invasion
Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by telephone on Wednesday Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, after months of pressure from ...
Navalny says he faces 30 more years in Russian jail
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that investigators had opened what he called an “absurd” terrorism case against him that could see him sentenced to an additional 30 ...
Patriarch says Russians who don’t serve country are ‘internal enemies’
The head of Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church on Tuesday branded Russians who fail to serve their country as “internal enemies” and described patriotism as the “greatest virtue”, the RIA ...
Kremlin dismisses ‘lies’ that Putin has doubles and sits in a bunker
The Kremlin rejected what it said were lies that President Vladimir Putin had lookalike body doubles who stood in for the 70-year-old leader and that he spent much of his ...
Medvedev: we are probably on verge of a new world war
An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the world was probably on the verge of a new world war and the risks of a nuclear confrontation ...
Ukraine confirms it will play on in Euro 2024 qualifiers
Ukraine will continue playing Euro 2024 qualifying matches despite a government ban on Ukrainian national teams taking part in competitions involving athletes from Russia and Belarus, the country said on Monday.
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Russia’s new T-14 Armata battle tank debuts in Ukraine
Russia has begun using its new T-14 Armata battle tanks to fire on Ukrainian positions “but they have not yet participated in direct assault operations,” the RIA state news agency ...
Ukraine war spurs record global spending on military
Global military spending rose to a record last year as Russia’s war in Ukraine drove the biggest annual increase in expenditure in Europe since the end of the Cold ...
Russia says it repels naval drone attack on Sevastopol
Russia repelled a drone attack on its Black Sea fleet stationed in the Crimean port of Sevastopol in the early hours of Monday, Russia’s defence ministry said.
Sevastopol, which ...
China says it respects sovereignty of ex-Soviet states, after EU uproar over Ukraine comment
China respects the status of former Soviet member states as sovereign nations, its foreign ministry said on Monday, after comments by its envoy to Paris triggered an uproar among European ...
Russian billionaires see wealth rise to over half a trillion dollars -Forbes
Russia’s richest people added $152 billion to their wealth over the past year, buoyed by high prices for natural resources and rebounding from the huge loss of fortunes they experienced ...
NATO chief visits Kyiv, shows support for Ukraine in war
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Thursday for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion, showing the military alliance’s support for Ukraine as it prepares to launch ...
Russia expands war recruitment drive with video ad calling for ‘real’ men
The Russian military has launched a video campaign to lure more professional soldiers to fight in Ukraine which challenges those interested to show they are “a real man” and swap ...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy visits border with Belarus and Poland
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy inspected the frontier with Belarus and Poland on Wednesday, and thanked border guards for their defence of the country since Russia’s invasion.
The president posted ...
Russia accuses Ukraine of sabotaging grain deal with bribery scheme
Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of sabotaging the Black Sea grain deal by demanding bribes from ship owners to register new vessels and carry out inspections under the cover of ...
US journalist Gershkovich’s appeal against pre-trial detention rejected by Russian court
US journalist Evan Gershkovich’s appeal against his pre-trial detention in a Moscow prison was rejected by a Russian court on Tuesday.
Gershkovich has been ordered to be held at ...
Putin visits two regions in Ukraine as G7 condemn nuclear plan
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited security forces in parts of Ukraine that Russia says it annexed last year, as Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Japan condemned a ...
Zelenskiy discussed Macron’s China visit with him- Kyiv
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held a call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Saturday in which the leaders discussed Macron’s visit to China, Zelenskiy said.
Macron visited ...
Polish government bans grain and food imports from Ukraine
The Polish government has decided to ban imports of grain and other food from Ukraine to protect the Polish agricultural sector, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party (...
As Putin signs new law on draft, Russia says spring call-up is running as planned
Russia’s regular spring military draft campaign is proceeding as scheduled and there are no plans to send out mass electronic notices under a new system just signed into law ...
Ukraine bars its national teams from competing with Russians and Belarusians
Ukraine has barred its national sports teams from competing in Olympic, non-Olympic and Paralympic events that include competitors from Russia and Belarus, the sports ministry said in a decree published ...
Ukrainians said to pull back in Bakhmut as Moscow launches new push
Ukrainian troops have been forced to withdraw from some parts of Bakhmut in the face of a renewed Russian assault on the ruined battlefield city, Britain said on Friday, with ...
Ukraine war, already with 354,000 casualties, likely to last past 2023
As many as 354,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the Ukraine war which is grinding towards a protracted conflict that may last well beyond 2023, according to ...