At least 31 people have been killed and 112 wounded across Ukraine in a barrage of Russian missile attacks – the deadliest in months. A missile smashed into a children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, on Monday, trapping victims under rubble. Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers dug through debris of a part of […]
US political analyst Ian Bremmer says there is no scenario for Ukraine that doesn’t involve partitioning the country. Russia and the West have been locked in a battle of wills for more than two years over Ukraine, fighting and waiting to see who will back down first. But regardless of how long the war lasts,
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Ukrainian energy facilities came under a “massive attack” from Russia overnight, the Ukraine energy ministry said on Saturday, describing it as the eighth time Russia has launched an assault on energy infrastructure in the past three months. “The situation in the energy sector remains difficult,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that hourly electricity
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CNN — Two beluga whales have been rescued from the besieged city of Kharkiv in Ukraine and taken to an aquarium in Valencia, Spain, in a complex operation. A multinational team involving marine mammal care experts from Oceanogràfic de Valencia, the largest oceanarium in Europe; Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta; and SeaWorld were involved in the high-risk
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Absence of China in summit raises questions over point of event, which Russia dismissed as ‘futile’. World leaders are gathering in Switzerland for a summit aimed at pressuring Russia to end its war in Ukraine, but the absence of powerful allies of Moscow such as China is expected to blunt its potential impact. United States
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For accession talks to start, all 27 member countries must agree on the negotiating framework to convene an intergovernmental conference with Ukraine and Moldova. EU diplomats are pushing to do so as soon as the end of June, with an ambassadors’ discussion penciled in for June 12 to iron out any concerns member countries have.
“We’ve always had the same philosophy, we help the Ukrainians to fight,” he said. France had until now stopped short of donating fighter jets to Ukraine, arguing that Kyiv needs to focus on obtaining and training on F-16s, which are more common than the Mirages made by the French arms manufacturer Dassault. The Ukrainian president
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From Iryna Vereshchuk The picture posted on Facebook by Ukrainian government minister Iryna Vereshchuk that purportedly shows a Russian S-300 missile system hit by a Western-supplied weapon inside Russian territory. CNN — Ukrainian forces claimed Monday that they had successfully hit a Russian S-300 missile system using Western-supplied weapons inside Russian territory. “It burns beautifully. It’s a
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US President Joe Biden is planning to skip the June gathering in Switzerland. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants global powers to refocus on his country’s war against invading Russian forces. But United States President Joe Biden is planning to skip a June peace summit in Switzerland. Russia has not been invited, and it is not
Russia’s May 9 parade marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II and has become the country’s most important public holiday. In a speech in Moscow’s Red Square before thousands of soldiers, President Vladimir Putin praised his army fighting in Ukraine and accused “Western elites” of fomenting conflicts around the world.
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