Ukraine war - Page 25

A disgraced former Russian mayor convicted over bribery reportedly had his prison sentence cut short after signing up to fight in Ukraine.

France’s new foreign minister Stephane Sejourne renewed his country’s support to Ukraine, choosing Kyiv for his first official visit abroad.

$3.2 billion will cover long-range missiles, thousands of drones, air defense, artillery ammunition and maritime security.

Russia’s domestic security agency has arrested a Russian citizen for allegedly providing information to Poland about defense production.

Zelensky has arrived in Latvia, the final stop on his Baltic mini-tour as he attempts to drum up further support and missiles.

Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania on Thursday signed an agreement to jointly tackle rogue sea mines that have threatened Black Sea shipping since the start of the Ukraine war.

Russia reactivates Stalin-era ‘SMERSH’ spycatcher agency amid the Ukraine war, the latest indicator a new Cold War emerging.

Ukraine came under strong Russian missile attacks early Monday that struck near the front lines of fighting in the east.

Ukraine will reportedly need to wait up to an additional half year before receiving the F-16 fighter jets promised to the country by Denmark.

Russian air defenses downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in occupied Crimea and southern Russia on Friday, officials said.

Only a “very small number” of modern battle tanks provided to Ukraine from Germany are still in use, a Bundestag parliamentarian has revealed.

Russian officials in the border city of Belgorod offered to evacuate worried residents on Friday, amid waves of fatal Ukrainian attacks.

Federal Prosecutor investigating “suspicions of unconstitutional sabotage” after holes were discovered drilled into a new gas delivery pipe.

Russian air defenses downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in occupied Crimea and southern Russia on Friday, officials said.

Russia said it shot down 10 Ukrainian missiles over Crimea, as both sides pounded each other with long-range aerial strikes.

Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war under a deal sponsored by the United Arab Emirates.

Ukraine’s two largest cities came under fire from Russian ballistic missiles, killing at least four and injuring almost 100, officials said

President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed that Russia would feel the “wrath” of Ukraine in the new year with the arrival of Western F-16 jets.

Russia launched a record 90 Shahed-type drones over Ukraine during the early hours of the new year, the Ukrainian air force said Monday.

Vladimir Putin vowed that Russia “will never back down” in his New Year’s address, as the invasion of Ukraine approaches its two-year anniversary.

Russia launched a fresh drone assault on Ukraine on Saturday night, after promising retaliation over strikes on the border city of Belgorod.

2023 started with Spring Counteroffensive optimism but ends with acknowledgement the conflict has devolved into static attrition warfare.

Shelling in the center of Belgorod killed 14 people, including two children, and injured 108 others Saturday, Moscow said.

Thirty-two Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia on Saturday, the Kremlin said, a day after a barrage across Ukraine killed 32.

Air Force commander Oleshchuk said it was “the most massive aerial attack” since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

West too fragmented, too slow, and will be attacked by Putin’s Russia if it doesn’t do more to help Ukraine, their foreign minister says.

Civilian cargo ship struck mine in the Black Sea near Ukraine´s Danube ports Thursday, injuring two sailors, officials and analysts said.

Russia vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the war in Ukraine, AP claims.

The EU is reportedly preparing to use a Covid-era accounting trick and skirt Hungary’s veto on continuing to send billions to Ukraine. 

Russian shelling of Ukraine killed at least five people overnight and knocked out power in most of the southern city of Kherson.

President Recep Erdogan linked the Nordic country´s admission on U.S. approval of Turkey’s request to purchase F-16 fighter jets.

Russia acknowledges a missile attack on warship Novocherkassk, which Ukraine claims to have destroyed in a cruise missile strike.

Germans should pay a Ukraine tax to continue funding the war against Russia, a top economic advisor to the government has argued.

Ukraine is signaling its difference from Russia in a new way, by departing from the Orthodox tradition of observing the Julian calendar.

Massive preoccupation of those at the top with increasing their own power and expanding the EU eastwards into former Soviet states laid bare.

Voters are base, hormone-driven creatures who can be manipulated through fear into ignoring the “lucid” left, worries EU boss Josep Borrell.