Ukraine crisis - Page 6

Moscow on Saturday mounted a “counter-terror operation” to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict.

Ukraine has sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours amid a surge in long-range attacks on Russian targets.

Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday in a Facebook post that its forces struck an airfield in Morozovsk in the Russian mainland.

Ukraine on Sunday said it struck an oil depot in southern Russia that supplies the Kremlin’s troops as Russia struck Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

Vitali Klitschko suggested that Zelensky hold a referendum to secure “popular legitimacy” for either ending or continuing the war with Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his country’s thanks to President Joe Biden after he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race.

A Ukrainian former lawmaker, Iryna Farion, has died after being shot in the street by an unknown assailant in a suspected assassination.

Donald Trump said Friday he had spoken by telephone with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and pledged to end the European country’s war with Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Britain’s new government to help Ukrainian forces attack deeper inside Russia.

Ukraine’s army has pulled out from the village of Urozhaine in the eastern Donetsk region, surrendering another front-line position to Russia.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, officials in both countries said Wednesday, three weeks after their last swap.

The Kremlin on Saturday warned that the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles.

An oil depot caught fire in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region Saturday following a Ukrainian drone attack in the early hours, officials said.

Russian missile strikes in Ukraine killed at least 28 people, injured almost 100, and damaged a children’s hospital in Kyiv, officials said.

A Russian village was evacuated following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse.

Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a regional capital.

Russia summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest the alleged use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Crimea.

Russia said over 30 drones were shot down in the West of the country overnight into Sunday, just hours after a Russian attack on Kharkiv.

The British political establishment went into full meltdown on Friday as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage suggested that Western expansionist policies in Ukraine “provoked” the Russian invasion.

Western leaders backed Ukraine’s demands that Russia return all occupied territories as the basis for any potential peace agreement.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed that Ukraine supporters in the West are merely seeking to exploit the country’s natural resources.

A U.S. State Department-tied Ukrainian outlet has published an “enemies list”, which includes former President Trump and Breitbart News.

The Netherlands said Ukraine will be free to use F-16s to attack targets within Russia as the Kremlin has warned of “fatal consequences”.

Zelensky claimed if Donald Trump tries to force Ukraine into accepting a peace deal with Russia he would become a “loser” president and would risk sparking a Third World War.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused China on Sunday of helping Russia to disrupt an upcoming Swiss-organized peace conference on the war in Ukraine.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán led thousands of his citizens in a peace rally in Central Budapest on Saturday, demanding an end to the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at a Singapore security forum, as he seeks to rally support amid the Russian offensive.

NATO members France and Poland stated publicly that Ukraine was free to use their missiles to strike targets within Russia.

The Swedish government said Wednesday that it will donate 13 billion kronor ($1.23 billion) in military aid to Ukraine, in the largest package of assistance Sweden has so far donated.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is facing calls to resign after arguing Ukraine should be allowed to use Western weapons to attack the Russian mainland.

Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing to intensify its offensive along Ukraine’s northern border as 14 were killed in Kharkiv on Sunday.

The Group of Seven (G7) nations said they had moved toward an agreement on squeezing more money from frozen Russian assets to give Ukraine.

Western nations should end their prohibition on Ukraine using their missiles to hit targets within Russia, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.

Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered the Kharkiv region earlier this month, Zelensky said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected calls from French leader Emmanuel Macron for a truce with Russia during the Paris Olympics and criticised the West for seeking a swift end to the war.

A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers amid the Russian offensive.