Tag: Ukraine

  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

By AP and published by Star Tribune Washington – US President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday (Apr. 28) for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion, a signal that the US is prepared to mount a robust, long-term campaign to bolster Kyiv and weaken Moscow as the bloody war enters

  By Reuters, published by The Globe and Mail, plus BBC A RUSSIAN general said on Friday (Apr. 22) that Moscow wants to seize all of southern and eastern Ukraine, far wider war aims than it had acknowledged as it presses on with a new offensive after its campaign to capture the capital Kyiv collapsed

By AP and published by Denver Post, plus BBC Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, assaulting cities and towns along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long in what both sides described as a new phase of the war. After a Russian push to overrun

  By Reuters, published by Cyprus Mail, plus BBC Kyiv, Mariupol, Ukraine – Russia’s warplanes bombed Lviv and its missiles struck Kyiv and Kharkiv on Saturday, as Moscow followed through on a threat to launch more long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities after its Black Sea Fleet’s flagship was sunk. In besieged Mariupol, scene of the

  By AP and published by Irish Examiner Kyiv, Ukraine – A day after Moscow suffered a stinging symbolic defeat with the loss of its Black Sea fleet flagship, Russia’s Defence Ministry promised to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine’s alleged military “diversions on the Russian territory.” The threat

By CNN and BBC ONE OF the Russian Navy’s most important warships has been badly damaged in the Black Sea, a massive blow to a military struggling against Ukrainian resistance 50 days into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his neighbour. Russian sailors evacuated the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of its Black Sea fleet, after a

  By AP, published by CNC News, with files from Reuters and CBC News Kyiv, Ukraine – The presidents of four countries on Russia’s doorstep visited Ukraine on Wednesday (Apr, 13) in a show of support for the embattled country, after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to continue his bloody offensive until its “full completion.”

By Reuters, published by The Straits Times, plus BBC Kyiv – Ukraine is checking unverified information that Russia may have used chemical weapons while besieging the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Tuesday (Apr. 12). “There is a theory that these could be phosphorus munitions,” Ms. Malyar

By Reuters, published by The Straits Times, plus BBC Washington – The United States is committed to providing Ukraine with “the weapons it needs” to defend itself against Russia, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday (Apr. 10) as Ukraine seeks more military aid from the West. Sullivan said the Biden administration will

  By AP, published by US News & World Report, plus CNN Kyiv, Ukraine – Ukrainian forces dug in and Russia’s military lined up more firepower on Sunday ahead of an expected showdown in eastern Ukraine that could become a decisive period in a war that has flattened cities, killed untold thousands and isolated Moscow

  By Reuters, published by Prothomalo.com, plus BBC UKRAINE is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said a day after a missile attack that officials said killed more than 50 civilians trying to evacuate. Air-raid sirens sounded in cities across eastern Ukraine, which

By AP, published by ABC News, and BBC Brussels -The United States today (Apr. 6) announced sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters and said it was toughening penalties against Russian banks in retaliation for “war crimes” in Ukraine. The United Kingdom has also imposed sanctions on Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank and is

  By AP, published by Global News, plus BBC US President Joe Biden today (Apr. 4) called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal.” Biden’s

  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