Ukraine war - Page 48

A European Commissioner outlined the EU’s plan to stop the flow of arms from Ukrainian from ending up in the hands of criminals. 

MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian warplane slammed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday, killing both crewmembers, authorities said. It was the second time in less than a week that a combat jet crashed in a residential area in Russia.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Weapons shortages across Europe could force hard choices for Ukraine’s allies as they balance their support for Ukraine against the risk that Russia could target them next.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine told all residents of the city of Kherson to leave “immediately” Saturday ahead of an expected advance by Ukrainian troops waging a counter-offensive to recapture one of the first urban areas Russia took after invading the country.

Kyrie Irving turned his attention to blasting Joe Biden for doing nothing to get WNBA player Brittney Griner freed from a Russian prison.

Britain’s defense secretary revealed Thursday that a Russian fighter jet released a missile near an RAF aircraft last month.

A former Russian ambassador to Washington D.C. is claiming that Joe Biden is desperately pushing the Russians to free Brittney Girner.

The European Union will establish a mission to train around 15,000 Ukrainian troops and donate another 500 million euros ($485 million) in aid to support Kyiv against Moscow. 

Residents of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv (Kiev) woke up to a swarm of so-called ‘kamikaze’ drones raining down on the city on Monday morning.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are allegedly on the ground in Ukraine training Russian forces in the use of “kamikaze” drones.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has personally thanked U.S. President Joe Biden for supplying Kyiv with another “security aid package” worth $725 million.

(AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was “doing everything right” in its nearly eight-month invasion of Ukraine despite a string of embarrassing defeats against Kyiv’s forces, who will receive $725 million in new U.S. military assistance.

The EU’s top diplomat said that the Russian military would be “annihilated” if Vladimir Putin launches a nuclear strike in Ukraine.

Russian forces are making “tactical advances” in the Donbas following a long run of bad news for their “special military operation”, according to British intelligence.

President Emmanuel Macron suggested that France would not use nuclear weapons against Russia should they launch nuclear strikes on Ukraine.

Allowing Ukraine to join NATO would result in a “guaranteed escalation to World War III”, Alexander Venediktov said.

Russia arrested eight people over Crimea bridge bombing and accused the Ukrainian Defence Ministry of organising the attack.

The Director of GCHQ claimed ordinary Russians are now realising the cost of Putin’s “war of choice” as many flee to avoid conscription.

Ukraine has urged African nations “not to stay neutral” in the ongoing Western-backed clash with the Russian Federation following “devastating” missile strikes across the country on Monday.

A building hosting the visa office of the German consulate in Kyiv (Kiev) has been struck amid a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine, reports claim.

There are fears Belarus may be looking for an excuse to formally join the war on Ukraine after it accused Kyiv of planning to attack them.

HONG KONG (AP) – A superyacht connected to sanctioned Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov has anchored in Hong Kong as Western governments move to seize yachts connected to Russian businessmen.

Russian authorities claim the rail and road bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula is already partly open and the damage to it “insignificant” after a blast that killed three.

President Joe Biden’s dire warnings of “Armageddon” over the war in Ukraine were chastised by French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday.

Ukrainians are posing in front of a giant mocked-up commemorative stamp showing Russia’s bridge to Crimea on fire after it was damaged on Saturday morning.  

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has said he agrees that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February “would not have happened” if Donald Trump was still U.S. President.

Polling suggests that only a minority of young, military-age Britons support their country’s role in the Russo-Ukrainian war, while a huge majority of much older Britons are in favour of it. 

The rail and road bridge from mainland Russia to the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, has been pictured in flames the morning after President Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday.

A pair of Russian men landed a small boat on St. Lawrence Island near Gambell, Alaska, on Tuesday morning. The men reportedly sought asylum after fleeing Russia to avoid the Russian war with Ukraine.

Ukrainian refugees living in Finland are reportedly alarmed about being housed with Russians seeking asylum from military conscription.

The Secretary General of Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued Italy’s “strongest condemnation” of an attempt by the Russian Federation to annex Ukrainian territories.

Pope Francis called upon Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday to put an end to his assault on the people of Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown with suicide drones on Sunday, and Ukraine pushed ahead with its counteroffensive after taking back control of a strategic eastern city.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Bulgarians on Sunday cast their ballots in a general election – the fourth in 18 months – marked by a raging war nearby, political instability, and economic hardships in the European Union’s poorest member.

Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia defended the referendums, claiming that more than 100 international observers from Italy, Germany, Venezuela, and Latvia who observed the voting recognized the outcomes as legitimate.

Ukraine claims it has Russian forces in the key eastern city of Lyman completely surrounded, and that they have eliminated close to 60,000 Russian personnel since February.