By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia Kyiv – Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street by street for control of the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday (June 6) in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Which side had the upper hand remained unclear. Russian forces had the numerical
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Ukraine says it pushes back Russian troops in battlefield city Sievierodonetsk
By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia Kyiv – Ukraine said on Saturday (June 4) it had recaptured a swathe of the battlefield city of Sievierodonetsk, in a rare counter-offensive against Russia’s main assault force that had been steadily advancing in the east. The Ukrainian claim could not be independently verified and Moscow said
Read moreUkraine troops hold out as Russia assaults Sievierodonetsk wasteland
By Reuters and published by The Straits Times Kyiv – Ukrainian forces were still holding out in Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday (May 31), resisting Russia’s all-out assault to capture a bombed-out wasteland that Moscow has made the principal objective of its invasion in recent days. Both sides said Russian forces now controlled between a third
Read moreRussian gains in Ukraine’s east indicate a shift in momentum in the war
By Reuters and published by In-Cyprus Kyiv – Russian forces were assaulting the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday after saying they had captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman as Moscow pressed its offensive in the eastern Donbas. Russian gains in recent days indicate a shift in momentum in the war, now in its
Read morePounded by Russian offensive in the east, Ukraine rules out ceasefire
By Reuters and published by ChannelNews Asia Kyiv – Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow while Russia stepped up its attack in the eastern Donbas region and stopped sending gas to Finland in its latest response to Western sanctions and its deepening international isolation. Polish President Andrzej Duda told
Read moreRussian forces step up east Ukraine campaign, more wounded leave Mariupol bastion
By Reuters and published by Financial Post Kyiv – Russian forces bombarded areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region from land and air on Friday, destroying houses in residential districts and killing a number of civilians, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the assaults had turned the Donbas into “hell.” In the southern port city
Read moreRussia’s laser weapon claim derided as propaganda
By BBC RUSSIA claims to have used laser weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, although the US says it has seen no evidence of this and Ukraine has derided it as propaganda. What are laser weapons and how effective could they be in the conflict? Yury Borisov, the deputy prime minister in charge of
Read morePutin takes Mariupol, but wider Donbas victory slipping from reach: Analysts
By Reuters and published by ChannelNews Asia Kyiv – Even as the Kremlin prepares to take full control of the ruins of Mariupol city, it faces the growing prospect of defeat in its bid to conquer all of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas because its badly mauled forces lack the manpower for significant advances. Russian President
Read moreMariupol fighters in Russian hands; both sides claim wins
By AP, published US News & World Report, plus BBC Kyiv, Ukraine – Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters, including wounded men carried out on stretchers, left the vast steel plant in Mariupol where they mounted a dogged last stand and turned themselves over to Russian hands, signalling the beginning of the end of a siege that
Read morePutin lobs cryptic new threats at Finland, Sweden for Joining Nato
By US News & World Report and published by MSN News RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin lobbed new threats at Finland and Sweden as Nato prepares to consider their formal applications for membership, saying Russia did not necessarily view their joining the Cold War-era alliance as a direct threat but that it would have to
Read moreBurning munitions cascade down on Ukrainian steel plant – video
By Reuters and published by Swissinfo.ch London – White brightly burning munitions were shown cascading down on the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in what a British military expert said looked like either an attack with phosphorus or incendiary weapons. Reuters was not able to immediately identify the type of
Read moreBiden names envoy to Asean, stressing US attention
By AP and published by US News & World Report Washington – US President Joe Biden on Friday announced he’s nominating one of his top national security aides as ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, aiming to underscore his administration’s commitment to the Pacific region. Biden announced his decision to nominate Yohannes Abraham,
Read moreRussia threatens to retaliate as Finland seeks Nato membership ‘without delay’
By Reuters, published by Swissinfo.ch Helsinki/ Kharkiv,Ukraine –Finland said on Thursday it would apply to join Nato “without delay”, with Sweden expected to follow, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looked set to bring about the very expansion of the Western military alliance that Vladimir Putin aimed to prevent. The decision by the two Nordic
Read moreUkraine diverts some Russian gas flows, claims battlefield gains
By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsia, plus CNN Kharkiv – Flows of Russian gas to Europe through a transit point in Ukraine dried up on Wednesday (May 11), while Kyiv reported battlefield gains over invading Russian forces that could signal a shift in the war’s momentum. Ukraine has remained a major route for Russian
Read morePutin’s military officers refusing to obey orders in Ukraine: US official
By Jon Jackson, Newsweek, and published by MSN News A SENIOR official from the US Department of Defence on Monday (May 9) said officers in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military have joined soldiers in refusing to follow orders in Ukraine. During a background briefing, the senior official at the Department of Defence told Newsweek
Read moreSixty feared dead in Ukraine school bombed by Russia, governor says
By Reuters, published by Swissinfo.ch, plus CNN Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine – As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday. Russian forces also continued shelling the Azovstal steelworks, last holdout of Ukrainian
Read moreUkraine says all women and children now evacuated from Mariupol steel mill
By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia Kyiv – All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said on Saturday (May 7), despite what military officers said was an ongoing Russian assault at the plant. “This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation
Read moreFirst civilians leave Mariupol steel plant, but hundreds remain
By AP and published by The Philadelphia Inquirer Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine – People fleeing besieged Mariupol described weeks of bombardment and deprivation as they arrived on Monday in Ukrainian-held territory, where officials and relief workers anxiously awaited the first group of civilians evacuated from the steel plant that is the last stronghold of Ukrainian fighters
Read moreRussia expects trade with China to reach $200 billion by 2024 – report
By Reuters and published by Channel NewsAsia RUSSIA said on Saturday (Apr. 30) it expected commodity flows with China to grow and trade with Beijing to reach $200 billion by 2024, as Moscow faces mounting isolation from the West. China has refused to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine and has criticised the unprecedented Western
Read moreUkraine says Russia taking ‘colossal losses’ in eastern battle
By Reuters, published by the Straits Times, plus The Daily Mail Kyiv – Ukraine acknowledged on Friday (Apr. 29) it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s losses were even worse. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky also praised his US counterpart Joe Biden after he called on Congress to
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