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LONDON (AP) – Britain is accusing the Russian state of being behind hoax calls to two government ministers by an imposter posing as the prime minister of Ukraine.

“The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours,” said AP reporters of their escape from besieged Mariupol.

Belgium has delayed killing off its use of nuclear power generation over what it called a ‘chaotic geopolitical environment’.

Britons who volunteered with Ukraine’s foreign legion could have been responsible for a missile strike that killed at least 35 people.

Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their country are being allowed to seek asylum in the U.S. but Russians are being rejected.

The world may be careering towards global famine as food insecurity spirals as Russia blocks grain exports from Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – At a makeshift basement bomb shelter in Ukraine’s capital, at least 20 babies born to surrogate mothers are waiting for their foreign parents to be able to travel to the war-torn country and take them home.

(AP) — The Russian military says it has carried out a new series of strikes on Ukrainian military facilities with long-range hypersonic and cruise missiles.

With 150,000 Britons offering their homes to Ukrainian refugees since a new scheme was launched on Monday, the government is drawing up plans to capitalise on British hospitality by looking to resettle other refugees people’s homes, too.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has shared footage of his men opening fire on an apartment block in Mariupol, the encircled coastal stronghold of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. 

Kremlin officials delivered a sly blow to U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, responding to his “personal insult” of Vladimir Putin by casting aspersions on his cognitive ability. “We do hear and see statements addressed to President Putin that in

BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese diplomat says NATO should stick to what he claimed was a promise not to expand eastward.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Ukrainian military official has confirmed to a local news outlet that Russian forces carried out a missile strike Friday on a missile and ammunition warehouse in the Delyatyn settlement of the Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine.

Ten European Union member-states have been exposed for selling hundreds of millions of euros worth of military kit to Russia between 2015 and 2020, despite sanctions.

Ofcom announced that “with immediate effect” Russia’s state-funded news channel RT will have its licence to broadcast in Britain revoked.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukrainian cities Friday, with new missile strikes and shelling on the capital Kyiv and the outskirts of the western city of Lviv, as world leaders pushed for an investigation of the Kremlin’s repeated attacks on civilian targets, including schools, hospitals and residential areas.

A Canadian NGO has warned that Western weapons shipped to Ukraine could not only end up in Russian hands but may even end up being sold on the international black market.

Invoking Cold War rhetoric, Ukraine’s President Zelesnky criticised the left-wing government of Germany for prioritising economics over peace.

The Ukrainian government is trying to arm foreigners who volunteered to work as medics and send them to Kyiv as “cannon fodder”, according to British ex-volunteers.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Britain’s defence secretary says his country will deploy a missile defence system to NATO ally Poland in reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A Russian court has decided to extend WNBA star Brittney Griner’s detention in Moscow for two more months, according to a report.

PARIS (AP) – Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe will no longer be attempting this year to send its first rover to Mars, which was to have probed whether the planet ever hosted life.

Poland’s de facto leader has called for NATO to launch a “peacekeeping mission” in Ukraine during a trip to the country’s capital of Kyiv (Kiev).

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is running damage control after three men were executed during his oil-begging visit to Saudi Arabia.

Swedish farmers may be forced to reduce their harvests by as much as half due to a shortage of manure and fertilizers caused by the conflict in Ukraine and associated sanctions war.

Russians “will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths,” said President Putin. “I am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country.”

After months of abysmal approval numbers, Biden’s favorability among registered voters has soared by 2 points, and all he had to do was bring us to the brink of World War III.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sworn that he will hold Saudi Arabia to account as he begs the country for more oil.

Former British PM and Iraq War architecht Tony Blair said military action against Russia in Ukraine should be on the table.

The Council of Europe on Wednesday expelled Russia from the continent’s foremost human rights body in an unprecedented move.

Germany is considering reopening some of its decommissioned coal power plants in the hopes of getting a handle on its ongoing energy crisis.

The corporate media and Democrats are whipping up a moral panic around Ukraine that could deliver us right into World War III, all in an effort to win the 2022 midterms.

MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes accused European countries such as Poland and Hungary of “racism” and “anti-Muslim bigotry” for welcoming those fleeing war from neighboring Ukraine, while alleging they opposed accepting Syrian migrants. 

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei will return to earth from the International Space Station (ISS) with Russian colleagues aboard a Russian spacecraft.

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine three weeks ago, over three million people have fled the Ukraine, with the vast majority arriving in neighbouring Poland. A spokesman for the Organization for Migration (IOM) stated on Tuesday that

Facing galloping inflation in fuel prices, one French commuter has opted to say neigh to paying $12.50-a-gallon.