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A potential disaster at the Zaporozhye facility must be prevented, the international watchdog’s head has said. The situation around Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which sits close to the frontline with Ukraine, is becoming more dangerous, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi warned on Saturday. The statement …

Russia’s air defenses detected and destroyed 22 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea overnight, the country’s defense ministry said on Sunday in a daily briefing. Reuters was not able to independently verify Russia’s claim. A Russian-installed official said earlier that Ukraine had launched drones at Crimea overnight, without providing details. …

Russia’s claims that the United States is behind a drone attack on the Kremlin are false, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday. “I can assure you that there was no involvement by the United States in this. Whatever it was did not involve us,” Kirby told …

Russian President Vladimir Putin must be brought to justice for his war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday in The Hague, calling for the creation of a special tribunal dedicated to judging Russia’s invasion. “We are going to set up a separate tribunal to show these people …

Russia has blamed the US for planning “a deliberate attempt” to kill President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack against the Kremlin, vowing retaliatory measures when it deems appropriate. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov underlined in a Thursday statement that Moscow is aware that Washington had selected the target of the …

German police said on Wednesday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would travel to Berlin on May 13, though a security source later told Reuters that the public disclosure of the visit was premature and it was now unclear if it would go ahead. Police and local media had reported that Zelenskiy …

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of attacking the Kremlin with drones overnight in a failed bid to kill President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said two drones had been used in the alleged attack on Putin’s residence in the Kremlin citadel but had been disabled by electronic defenses. It said Russia …

Russia’s air defenses shot down three Ukrainian military aircraft over the past day, the defense ministry said on Tuesday, as Moscow continues its large-scale missile barrage on Ukraine. Defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said: “Air defense capabilities destroyed three Ukrainian Air Force planes. Two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters were shot down …

Russia on Tuesday summoned the Polish embassy’s charge d’affaires after Warsaw closed a school run by the Russian embassy, domestic news agencies reported. Poland and Russia have historically had tense relations, which have plummeted even further since the Ukraine offensive. The RIA Novosti news agency published a video of diplomat …

Evacuations from Sudan, the battle raging in Bakhmut, protests against a judicial overhaul in Israel, and climate activism in Berlin: the most striking images this week.

A drone strike caused a fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky before it was extinguished, the city’s Moscow-installed governor said on Saturday. Experts examined the site and “it became clear that only one drone …

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced he would like to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss a potential solution to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The president is on an official trip to Spain where he participated in a business forum held in …

The European Commission will ban Ukrainian grain and oilseeds exports to Romania until June 5, Romanian Agriculture Minister Petre Daea said on Wednesday. Romania has stopped short of enforcing a ban, whereas Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia took unilateral steps to protect local markets from a flow of Ukrainian farm …

The Czech government on Wednesday approved a defense cooperation deal with the United States in a bid to boost its security as Russia’s war with Ukraine continues. The agreement facilitates a potential deployment of US troops to the Czech Republic, a NATO member since 1999, said Defense Minister Jana Cernochova. …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Wednesday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Moscow’s most important diplomatic partner, in the first phone call between the two leaders since the start of Russia’s invasion. “I had a long and meaningful phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. I believe that this call, as …

Explosive weapons can be highly inaccurate and are not meant to be used in densely populated areas. For almost two weeks now, vicious fighting has been going on in Sudan. Both sides of the conflict, the Sudanese army, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have resorted to shelling in densely …

Sweden on Tuesday expelled five Russian diplomats for carrying out activities that are “inconsistent with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.” In a statement, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said that Russia’s Ambassador to Stockholm Viktor Tatarintsev was summoned to inform him about the expulsion of the diplomats at the Russian …

Russia says it might abandon the moratorium on the deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles, as a result of the destabilizing military programs of the United States in the region. The Russian foreign ministry’s head of nuclear non-proliferation, Vladimir Yermakov, told the TASS news agency on Tuesday that the destabilizing …

Global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to a record $2.24 trillion, with a sharp increase in Europe, mainly due to Russian and Ukrainian spending, a Swedish think tank said on Monday. Spending globally increased by 3.7% in real terms, but military spending in Europe increased …

The UN secretary-general on Monday denounced the “devastation” caused by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine during a Security Council meeting chaired by Russia’s foreign minister. Antonio Guterres said in front of Sergei Lavrov that the Russian invasion was a violation of international law and is “causing massive suffering” to the Ukrainian …