Moscow reported hitting 16 targets in Ukraine overnight Russia used high-precision strikes to destroy an armored-vehicle manufacturing plant in Kiev and a military repair depot in the city of Nikolaev in southern Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday. He added that 16 targets were hit …
Read More »Moscow bars entry to Russia for UK’s Johnson, Truss, Wallace
Russia has banned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior ministers from entering Russia over the UK’s “hostile” stance on the war in Ukraine. Russian foreign ministry has said it has barred entry to the country for the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, the …
Read More »Russian strike hits missile unit outside Kyiv
A Ukrainian military factory outside Kyiv that produced missiles allegedly used to hit Russia’s Moskva warship was destroyed by overnight Russian strikes, an AFP journalist at the scene saw Friday. A workshop and an administrative building at the Vizar plant, which lies near Kyiv’s international Zhuliany airport, were seriously damaged. …
Read More »Canada to deploy military personnel to Poland
Canada will deploy up to 150 military personnel to Poland to support Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war and address a growing refugee crisis at Poland’s border with Ukraine, Defense Minister Anita Anand said on Thursday. More than half of the over 4.5 million who have left since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion …
Read More »Russia says Ukrainian helicopters carried out strikes on its territory
Two attack helicopters reportedly entered Russian airspace and delivered at least six strikes on residential buildings Russia has claimed that two Ukrainian helicopters were responsible for an attack on the border village of Klimovo in the Bryansk Region on Thursday, which left seven people injured. The incident had earlier been …
Read More »Russia says Ukraine fired mortars at Bryansk border post
Russia’s security service said on Thursday that a border post in the Bryansk region had been fired at with mortars from Ukraine in the latest of a series of reported cross-border attacks that Moscow has said may trigger an escalation of the conflict. No one was injured in the incident …
Read More »Putin says Russia will direct energy eastward as Europe shuns Russian gas
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow will work to re-direct its energy eastward as European countries try to reduce reliance on Russian exports, adding that Europe will not be able to completely shun Russian gas immediately. Russia has been forging closer ties with Asia and China, the …
Read More »Pentagon reveals weapons to be sent to Ukraine
The $800 million package includes cannons, radars, armored vehicles, and helicopters Washington is expanding the range of weapons deliveries to Ukraine to include artillery, armored vehicles, and helicopters, the Pentagon revealed on Wednesday. US President Joe Biden credited the $2.6 billion in weapons he has supplied to Kiev since February …
Read More »Russia tells Ukraine to ‘watch out’ after it captures pro-Kremlin politician
Russia on Wednesday told Ukraine to “watch out” after its former Soviet neighbor captured pro-Kremlin politician Viktor Medvedchuk, turning down Kyiv’s offer of a swap with a warning that those holding him might soon be detained themselves. Medvedchuk, one of President Vladimir Putin’s close allies in Ukraine, was shown handcuffed …
Read More »After Biden’s “genocide” claim against Russia, Macron says accusations won’t end war
The French president declined to use the term “genocide” referring to Moscow’s military action in Ukraine French President Emmanuel Macron declined to join his US counterpart Joe Biden in describing the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine as “genocide.” Verbal attacks would not help further peace in Ukraine, he …
Read More »Biden’s ‘genocide’ comments are wrong and unacceptable: Kremlin
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it categorically disagreed with US President Joe Biden’s description of Russia’s actions in Ukraine as ‘genocide.’ Biden said on Tuesday that Russia’s behavior in Ukraine amounted to genocide in his view, using that word for the first time. “We consider this kind of effort …
Read More »Finland to make decision on NATO entry in coming weeks, not months
Finland will take a decision about whether to apply to join the US-led NATO alliance in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Wednesday, underlining a shift in security perspectives since Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Finland and fellow Nordic state and neighbour Sweden are close partners with …
Read More »Some 1,000 of Ukraine marines surrender in Mariupol, says Russia
More than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in the port of Mariupol, Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday of its main strategic target in the eastern Donbas region, which has been reduced to ruins but not yet under Russian control. If the Russians take the Azovstal industrial district, where the …
Read More »Putin says Peace talks with Ukraine are at Dead End
Summary Peace talks hit a dead end – Putin West’s economic Blitzkrieg has failed – Putin Putin: Bucha is fake like a staged Syrian chemical attack Russia to achieve ‘noble’ war aims – Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that peace talks with Ukraine had hit a dead …
Read More »Russia to achieve ‘noble’ aims of Ukraine’s military operation – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine would undoubtedly achieve what he said were its “noble” objectives. Speaking at an awards ceremony at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East, Putin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies that said Moscow had …
Read More »China slams US over Russia sanctions
Beijing has urged the US to take practical steps to promote peace instead of trying to capitalize on the Ukraine conflict. China has criticized the harsh sanctions imposed by Washington on Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine, saying that the restrictions were the wrong tool to defuse the ongoing crisis. …
Read More »Finland and Sweden set to join NATO as soon as Summer: Officials
Russia has made a “massive strategic blunder” as Finland and Sweden look poised to join Nato as early as the summer, according to officials. US officials said Nato membership for both Nordic countries was “a topic of conversation and multiple sessions” during talks between the alliance’s foreign ministers last week …
Read More »Ukraine War | ‘Slovakia’ S-300 launchers obliterated – Russia claims
Slovakia reported delivering its only S-300 weapons system to Ukraine last week Russian forces have destroyed foreign-supplied S-300 anti-aircraft launchers in a number of precision strikes on Ukraine, the Defense Ministry, in Moscow, claimed on Monday. Days earlier, Slovakia reported the donation of a battery of old Soviet-made S-300 air …
Read More »NATO to station permanent force in east – Stoltenberg
The change comes after the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the bloc’s chief says NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the bloc will deploy a permanent full-scale military force on the eastern flank to deter Russia. The move comes in response to Moscow’s military campaign against Ukraine. In an interview …
Read More »Who’s behind alleged war crimes in Ukraine?
It comes into the category of ‘stating the obvious’ that all sides commit atrocities in war – especially in the course of modern conflicts fought out in urban centers in and around civilians. Indeed war itself is an atrocity, reflective as it is of a complete breakdown in human affairs …
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