The US Senate overwhelmingly approved a $40 billion infusion of military and economic aid for Ukraine and its allies. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says ‘no’ to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, as Turkish officials emphasised Ankara’s security concerns. Russia claims that 771 of Ukraine’s Azovstal fighters have surrendered in the past 24 hours, bringing…
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Attackers hit a military bus with an anti-tank rocket in the west of Aleppo province, state news agency SANA reported.Published On 13 May 202213 May 2022A rocket attack on a military bus has killed 10 soldiers and wounded nine more in northwest Syria, the country’s state news agency SANA reported. The death toll is the…
blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Ukraine’s prosecutor general says captured Russian soldier will stand trial for committing an alleged war crime in Ukraine.Published On 11 May 202211 May 2022 Pro-Moscow authorities in Ukraine’s occupied southern region of Kherson say they plan to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to incorporate the territory into Russia by the end of…
Pro-Moscow authorities in Ukraine’s occupied southern region of Kherson say they plan to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to incorporate the territory into Russia by the end of this year. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he does not foresee peace talks taking place in the immediate future and warns that the war is threatening…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for a prolonged truce to rescue the approximately 200 civilians and fighters sheltering in the bunkers of the Azovstal steel plant. Russia says its forces will halt hostilities at Azovstal and open a humanitarian corridor for three days. Ukraine’s Azov regiment says they are fighting “bloody battles” after Russians for…
The mayor of Mariupol says conditions at the Avozstal steel plant are dire and people trapped there are running out of food and water. An operation is planned to evacuate civilians trapped in Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant on Friday, the Ukrainian president’s office has said, without providing further details. A Radio Liberty journalist, Vira Hyrych,…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday as he steps up efforts to end the fighting in Ukraine. Russia has admitted one sailor was killed and 27 are missing after the Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, was sunk…
Not for the first time, China once again dominated the news this week. The release of new economic data provided a temperature check of the world’s second-largest economy, while dubious COVID-19 death rates focused attention on Beijing’s reputation for secrecy and narrative control at all costs. Elsewhere, Asia’s youngest nation went to the polls, and…
On March 30, just a day after a Russian missile hit an administrative building in the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, killing at least 12 people, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the case for the establishment of new world order. In a videotaped message to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Lavrov claimed…
The deadly attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk draws international condemnation and calls for accountability. Ukrainian officials say at least 52 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in the attack, for which Russia has denied responsibility. Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa has imposed a weekend curfew over what…