Tag: invasion

  By AP, published by The National UKRAINIAN troops are finding brutalised bodies and widespread destruction in suburbs of the capital as Russian soldiers withdraw and Moscow focuses its attacks elsewhere. Associated Press (AP) journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who

By Reuters, published by ABC News, plus BBC RUSSIAN forces have bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and the besieged city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, a day after promising to scale down operations there in what the West dismissed as a ploy to regroup by invaders taking heavy losses. Nearly five weeks into an invasion

  By AP, published by Belfast Telegraph RUSSIA’S military said today (Mar. 29) it would “fundamentally” cut back operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city, potentially a significant concession by Moscow amid talks aimed at ending the war that began more than a month ago. Russia’s deputy defence minister said Moscow has decided to

  By Reuters, published by ChannelNews Asia, plus BBC Lviv/Kharkiv, Ukraine – Ukraine and Russia were preparing on Monday (Mar. 28) for the first face-to-face peace talks in more than two weeks, but a senior US official said Russian President Vladimir Putin did not appear ready to make compromises to end the war. Ukrainian officials

By AP and published by Business Standard Brussels – US President Joe Biden and Western allies pledged new sanctions and humanitarian aid on Thursday (Mar. 24) in response to Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine, but their offers fell short of the more robust military assistance that President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded for in a pair of

  By Reuters and published by Zeebiz.com plus BBC A VETERAN envoy of President Vladimir Putin has resigned over the Ukraine war and left Russia with no intention to return, two sources said on Wednesday (Mar. 23), the first senior official to break with the Kremlin since Putin launched his invasion a month ago. The

By  AP, published by Chicago Tribune, plus BBC UKRAINIAN forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday (Mar. 22), mounting a defence so dogged that it is stoking fears Russia’s Vladimir Putin will escalate the war to new heights. “Putin’s back is

  By BBC and CNN THE Russian invasion remains largely stalled across all their lines of advance, with troops not having moved any further towards Kyiv since last week, a US senior defence official has said. The Russians have launched more than 1,100 missiles, but may be facing some “inventory issues”, the official said. Some

  By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsia plus BBC Lviv – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”, while local authorities said that thousands of residents there had been taken by force across the border. “Over the

By AP, published by CBC News, plus Express.co.uk UKRAINE’S president said Russia is trying to starve his country’s cities into submission but warned on Saturday that continuing the invasion would exact a toll on Russia for “generations.” The remarks came after Moscow held a mass rally in support of its bogged-down forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr

By Reuters and published by Financial Post Kyiv/Lviv – US President Joe Biden sought to prevent Beijing giving new life to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a video call today (Mar. 18) with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as Moscow pressed on with bombardments that have taken the place of military advances. With Russia trying to

By The Montreal Gazette Kyiv/Lviv – Russian forces in Ukraine are blasting cities and killing civilians but no longer making progress, Western countries said on Thursday, as a war Moscow was thought to have hoped to win within days entered its fourth week. Heavily outnumbered Ukrainian forces have prevented Moscow from capturing any of Ukraine’s

By Reuters published by Telegraph India plus BBC THREE European prime ministers headed to Kyiv by train yesterday (Mar. 15) for the first visit of its kind since war began, even as buildings there were ablaze and rescue workers were trying to pull survivors from the rubble of fresh Russian bombardment. That foreign leaders could

By AP published by ABC 7 News plus Reuters and BBC SPANISH Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said yesterday (Mar. 14) that he has asked his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to use Beijing’s influence over Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. “We are at a historical moment that requires responsibility and vision of all

By Reuters, published by Ottawa Citizen and Rappler.com, Fox News plus BBC Washington – The United States and Nato are shipping weapons into Ukraine at break-neck speed, including highly sensitive items such as shoulder-fired missiles called Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS) that can take down aircraft. The Western arms deliveries, another one of which is expected

By Yuras Karmanau, AP, and published by US News & World Report, plus BBC Lviv, Ukraine – Russia widened its military offensive in Ukraine today (Mar. 11), striking airfields in the west and an industrial city in the east for the first time as a huge armoured column long stalled outside Kyiv was on the