Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. File | Photo Credit: AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected on Capitol Hill and at the White House next week as he visits the U.S. during the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Zelensky’s trip comes as Congress is debating providing as much as $21 billion in military and humanitarian aid … Read more
A man walks past a house destroyed by recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on September 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Two elderly people were killed and three wounded on September 12 in Russian shelling of the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, the prosecutor general’s office said. It … Read more
TOPSHOT – Ukrainian cadets attend a ceremony for taking the military oath at The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, in Kyiv, on September 8, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. More than 300 cadets took the oath of enlistment. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) | Photo … Read more
Ukraine sent waves of drones deep into western Russia in more than four hours of nighttime attacks that struck military assets, Russian officials and media reports said on August 30. The drones hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, causing a huge blaze and damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, the Russian … Read more
In this image made from video provided by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry press service, firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a petrol station on a road near Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, Russia, on August 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP A massive explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern republic of … Read more
File photo of Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters putting out a fire at a house destroyed in a Russian shelling. | Photo Credit: AP Russian forces shelled two villages in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on August 13, killing seven civilians including a baby, Ukrainian authorities said. A couple, their 23-day-old child and another … Read more
Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian Orthodox Church leadership decided to defrock him following his prayer for peace in Ukraine. Last September, when President Vladimir Putin ordered … Read more
Rescuers work with heavy machinery, at the site of a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on August 8, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll from two Russian missile strikes that hit apartment blocks and other buildings in an eastern Ukrainian city … Read more
Bulgaria, which joined NATO in 2004, still maintains stocks of Soviet-designed weapons and has numerous factories making ammunition for them. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AP Bulgaria has agreed to provide the Ukrainian army with some 100 armored personnel carriers, marking a turnaround in the NATO member’s policy on sending military equipment to Kyiv … Read more
A firefighter works at the site of a recreation hotel hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the village of Kobleve, Mykolaiv region, Ukraine on July 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia launched an intense series of nighttime air attacks sending drones and missiles toward places across Ukraine, targeting … Read more