Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Ukraine had to be “at the heart” of any negotiations to end the conflict with Russia. Mr. Starmer’s remarks come amid fears in Kyiv and its European allies that the U.S. might strike a peace deal without … Read more
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the state-run TASS news agency that Moscow opposed that idea as well as others being proposed by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “Russia is against the deployment of Western peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any settlement to end the nearly three-year conflict,” Foreign … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony opening objects of transport infrastructure via video link in Moscow, Russia December 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday (December 22, 2024) vowed to bring more “destruction” to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone attack on the central Russian city of … Read more
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Borisoglebsk Air Base in Russia after an attack by Ukrainian drones on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A Ukrainian drone attack on Russian air bases damaged at least two hangars and other areas, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Thursday (August … Read more
Emergency workers respond at the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 8, 2024. A major Russian missile attack across Ukraine on Monday killed at least 31 people and injured 154, officials said, with one striking a large children’s hospital in the capital of Kyiv, where emergency crews searched the … Read more
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. | Photo Credit: AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on June 14 to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Such a deal appears a nonstarter for Kyiv, which … Read more
A view shows damaged buildings at the site of a Russian drone strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine on April 23, 2024. Photo: Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov via Telegram, via Reuters Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine that injured nine people in the Black Sea port of Odesa, four of … Read more
A Ukrainian soldier fires an RPG toward Russian positions at the frontline near Avdiivka, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. | Photo Credit: AP Ukrainian forces downed a Russian early warning and control aircraft on February 23, the air force chief said — … Read more
French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters France and Ukraine are soon likely to sign a bilateral agreement on security commitments, French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said on Wednesday. French President Emmanuel Macron was expected to finalise a security deal in Ukraine this month, but he postponed the trip … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion of a ceasefire in Ukraine to freeze the war was rejected by the United States after contacts between intermediaries, three Russian sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. The failure of Mr. Putin’s approach ushers in a third year of the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two … Read more