Ukraine has agreed that the past U.S. aid provided to Kyiv will not be part of a minerals deal it aims to sign with Washington, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Sunday. “Agreements have been reached that the document does not count assistance provided before its signing,” Shmyhal said in a Telegram post. Shmyhal, … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed the “possibility” of direct talks with Ukraine in a meeting with a US envoy, the Kremlin said, while President Donald Trump claimed the warring parties were “very close to a deal”.But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again rejected suggestions that Ukraine give up Crimea, and the talks between Putin … Read more
Kyiv: Fitch credit rating agency on Friday affirmed Ukraine’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating at ‘RD’ (restricted default) as its war with Russia drags past the 33-month mark. The agency also affirmed the sovereign’s ‘CCC+’ long-term local currency amid the ongoing debt restructuring, aimed at easing its wartime financial pressures. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in … Read more
Emergency responders retrieve a body from the rubble of a devastated building following a Ukrainian attack in a location given as Lysychansk, in the occupied eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, in this screen grab obtained from a video released February 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll from a strike on a bakery … Read more
Secretly recorded calls of Russian soldiers speaking from the front lines in Ukraine with loved ones back home offer a rare glimpse of the war through Russian eyes. As the war in Ukraine grinds into its second winter, a growing number of Russian soldiers want out, audio intercepts obtained and verified by The Associated Press … Read more
File picture of a Russian drone in Ukraine airspace | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine destroyed 29 of 31 drones launched by Russia and one cruise missile, its air force said on Tuesday, most of them targeting the regions of Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk. The waves of overnight attacks lasted more than three hours, the southern command … Read more
This photograph posted on a Wagner linked Telegram channel @grey_zone on August 23, 2023, shows a burning plane wreckage near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region. | Photo Credit: AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said his country had “nothing to do” with the presumed death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane … 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 Ukrainian war crime prosecutor inspects a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kherson. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russian shelling on December 15, 2022, killed two people in the southern city of Kherson, the Ukrainian presidency said, in the latest such bombardment since Kyiv’s forces … Read more