A handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on October 1, 2024, shows Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attending an event to mark the national “Defenders Day” in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Photo Credit: Photo by Handout/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/AFP … Read more
“Kuleba’s resignation request will be discussed by lawmakers at the next plenary meeting,” Speaker of Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk | Photo Credit: AP Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba resigned on Wednesday (September 4, 2024), following an announcement last week from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that a Cabinet reshuffle was imminent. “Kuleba’s resignation request will be discussed by … Read more
Ukraine on Saturday said Russia had launched a “massive” overnight attack on energy infrastructure in the west and south, adding that at least seven persons died in strikes elsewhere. Russia launched 16 cruise missiles from land, sea and air as well as 13 attack drones, aiming at energy infrastructure in several regions, Ukraine’s military said. … Read more
Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, seeking to curb each other’s ability to fight in a war that is now in its third year, officials said on June 20. With no … 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
Former U.S. President Trump speaks to members of the media after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York. | Photo Credit: Reuters Donald Trump becomes first former U.S. President convicted of felony crimes Donald Trump became the first former President … 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
People look at fragments of the television tower which was broken in half after it was hit by a Russian missile in Kharkiv, Ukraine on April 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The situation for Ukraine on its front line is likely to steadily deteriorate in coming weeks, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence said in … Read more
Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces to prepare to seize more land this spring and summer as muddy fields dry out and allow tanks, armoured vehicles and other heavy equipment to roll to key positions across the countryside. With the war in Ukraine now in its third year and a vital … Read more
FILE – Smoke rises over the site of explosion at an ammunition storage of the Russian army near the village of Mayskoye, Crimea, on Aug. 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Ukraine said on April 18 its forces had struck a large Russian airfield on the annexed Crimean peninsula, destroying an array of military equipment. … Read more