The next two or three months in Ukraine are likely to be exceedingly violent, in a war that has already been the deadliest in Europe in the past 80 years. Marc Santora, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia, explains why. Source link
Over the last month, North Korea’s role aiding Russia in its war in Ukraine has significantly escalated. U.S. officials reported that North Korean soldiers are already operating in the Kursk region in western Russia, where Ukrainian forces are staging a counteroffensive. Michael Shear, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains what the … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanges greetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a bilateral meeting, at Mariinsky Palace, in Kyiv. File | Photo Credit: ANI A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his visit to Ukraine, Russia rained missiles on Ukraine over the weekend. The visit which was high on symbolism saw some sharp … Read more
Washington DC: Calling India a strong partner of the US, White House said that the United States welcomes any other country willing to be helpful in trying to end the conflict in Ukraine and Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to Kyiv can contribute to achieving a peaceful resolution aligned with Zelenskyy‘s vision. National Security Communications … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File image. | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive Moscow on July 8 to a particularly warm and special welcome at a private dinner hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin at his Dacha or estate in the Moscow suburb of Novo-Ogaryovo. The meeting … Read more
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen isn’t on the ballot at the weekend’s European Parliament election but she’s likely to emerge as one of its biggest winners. Polls expect her National Rally party to be the top vote-getter in France, trouncing President Emmanuel Macron‘s moderate pro-business party. And across Europe, the anti-immigration, nationalist ideas Le … Read more
Frankfurt: Finance officials from the Group of Seven rich democracies said they had moved toward agreement on a US proposal to squeeze more money for Ukraine from Russian assets frozen in their countries. But the ministers left a final deal to be worked out ahead of a June summit of national leaders. “We are making … 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
The UN body has previously documented a few cases of ill-treatment by Ukrainian forces of Russian detainees . File. | Photo Credit: AP A United Nations commission of inquiry on Ukraine said on March 15 that it had gathered more evidence that Russia has systematically tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war, documenting rape threats and the use … Read more
Washington: Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The … Read more