Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to host a trilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Alaska on August 15. Where Kyiv fears President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump may try to dictate terms for ending the 3-1/2-year war. While the White House has confirmed a bilateral … Read more
KYIV: Ukraine’ passed a bill on Thursday to restore the independence of anti-corruption bodies, with 331 votes in favor and none against. Under this bill, the powers that had been revoked through government amendments last month have now been reinstated. The amendments made on July 22 had granted a prosecutor appointed by the president the … Read more
The Kh-101 cruise missile attack on a Kyiv children’s hospital in July demonstrates Russia’s ability to overcome Western supply constraints. Despite the attack, Russia has used over 700 guided aerial bombs, 170 attack drones, and nearly 80 missiles against Ukraine. Experts estimate that Russia will produce 700 to 750 missiles this year and 1,000 units … Read more
Ukrainian officials claim the Russians opened fire in several locations. Air alerts were issued across Ukraine shortly after the apparent truce began. According to Ukrainian officials, the eastern city of Kramatorsk was also attacked. Ukraine War: Vladimir Putin unilaterally declared a cease-fire, but it appears to have had little impact because Ukrainian officials claim the … Read more
Recovery from the war in Ukraine could take years. It appears especially after a surprise counterattack in recent days. Ukrainian soldiers had reacquired 6,000 square kilometers. An elite Russian military unit’s recovery from the war in Ukraine could take years, according to British intelligence, especially after a surprise counterattack in recent days. President Volodymyr Zelensky … Read more
Boris Johnson is accused by Tory MPs of ignoring the North for a trip to Kyiv just days before a key by-election. Prime Minister was apparently on his way to Doncaster on a train yesterday morning when he chose to fly to Kiev at the last minute. He met with President Volodymyr Zelensky and offered … Read more
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of stealing grain Zelenskyy has said that Russian occupiers have taken “a portion of 1,000,000 tons of grain” from Ukraine. They “are presently searching for approaches to sell it someplace unlawfully. To offer it in a manner to bring in cash on what was taken and to keep the shortage in the … Read more
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky entreated the European Union Monday to prevent its “quarrels” and adopt clean sanctions on Russia because the bloc’s leaders sought a compromised address to Hungary to goal Moscow’s key oil exports. The 27-kingdom EU has spent weeks haggling over a proposed embargo on Russian oil but comes up in opposition to … Read more
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a competitor of current President Volodymyr Zelensky, announced Monday that he had been given permission to leave the country after being “deliberately” stopped at the border this weekend. He accused the government Saturday of breaking a so-called political ceasefire in place since Russia invaded by not letting him leave. Poroshenko … Read more
Russian forces advanced toward the city centre of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky prepared to address EU leaders at an emergency conference where a ban on Russian oil imports is on the table. Zelensky is expected to press EU officials at the summit “to kill Russian exports” as he seeks to crank … Read more
During a visit to Ukraine on Monday, France’s Ukraine new foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, blasted civilian fatalities outside of Kyiv as a show of solidarity as Russian forces push east. “This should never have happened. It must never happen again,” Colonna told reporters after visiting an Orthodox church in the town of Bucha outside the … Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine used Monday’s Davos meeting to call for additional weapons and “maximum” sanctions against Russia, regretting that countries could have saved tens of thousands of lives if they had moved sooner. Appearing by video link, Zelensky delivered the headline speech to the first World Economic Forum to be held in the … Read more
Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, gave a rare interview with her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky. It’s only the couple’s second public appearance since the start of the Ukrainian conflict. “No one, not even the war,” Ms Zelenska said, adding that they had scarcely seen one other since Russia invaded Ukraine, and that they had been … Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Saturday that Ukraine should become a full candidate for EU membership rather than joining a bigger “European political community” antechamber proposed by France. “We don’t need any alternatives to the application of Ukraine to join the European Union, we don’t need such compromises,” Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv during a joint press conference … Read more
At the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, Ukrainians argued that all Russians should have been barred from the festival, and they were appalled by the fighter jet demonstration used to advertise “Top Gun: Maverick.” The 75th edition of the festival has given a platform to Ukrainian films this year, banned official Russian delegations and featured … Read more
NATO on Sunday pledged open-ended military support for Ukraine, as Finland hailed its “historic” bid to enrol in the alliance and with Western claims that Russia had suffered heavy losses in its push east. The promise came after Finland jettisoned many years of army non-alignment for a bulwark against Russia, redrawing the balance of electricity … Read more
Biden previously insisted that approval be accompanied with financing for unrelated government anti-Covid efforts. However, because Republicans are dragging their feet on Covid-related spending, Biden stated that he is willing to abandon the Covid funding requests for the time being in order to get the Ukraine money through. “We cannot afford to postpone this critical … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday asked the head of the United Nations to assist “store” the lives of the last wounded Ukrainians trapped beneath the giant Azovstal metallic plant in battered Mariupol. “The lives of the folks who continue to be there are in hazard. Everyone is crucial to us. We ask for your … Read more
As Moscow’s forces press farther into eastern Ukraine, eight civilians died on Sunday as a result of Russian shelling attacks in Donetsk and Kharkiv, according to the governors of the two areas. The deaths came as the Russian army refocuses its efforts on eastern Ukraine, notably the Donbas region, which incorporates Donetsk and Lugansk. Four … Read more
During talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi expressed support for Ukraine’s “fight for freedom,” according to US and Ukrainian officials. “We are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom… Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is … Read more
A group of 20 civilians is leaving the Azovstal steelworks, wherein the final Ukrainian troops are holed up inside the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the squaddies there stated Saturday. “Twenty civilians, women and children… have been transferred to a suitable place and we hope that they will be evacuated to Zaporizhzhia, on territory controlled … Read more
Following his assistance in arranging a Russian-US prisoner swap, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Ankara was ready to do more to help end the war in Ukraine. Erdogan’s office said that Putin “thanked” the Turkish leader in a phone call for helping put together Wednesday’s exchange of … Read more
The UK will increase its military aid to Ukraine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated in a phone discussion with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Boris Johnson informed Mr. Zelensky that additional armored vehicles, drones, and anti-tank weaponry would be supplied to Ukraine, according to a Downing Street spokesperson. Mr. Zelensky expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister for … Read more
Kyiv will pull out of talks with Moscow if Ukrainian infantrymen holed up at a sizeable steelworks in Mariupol are killed by Russian troops, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday. “If our men are killed in Mariupol and if those pseudo-referendums are prepared in the (southern) region of Kherson, then Ukraine will withdraw from any … Read more
Following a two-month siege, Mariupol could fall into Russian hands in “hours,” according to a Ukrainian official, as the adversaries agreed on a humanitarian passage for civilians to evacuate the destroyed port city. As fighting raged in the country’s east and south, the president of the European Council Charles Michel arrived in Kyiv, in the … Read more
Ukraine is hoping to obtain weeks candidate USA’s reputation for becoming a member of the European Union, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday as he met with the EU’s envoy to Ukraine in Kyiv. Zelensky surpassed the envoy, Matti Maasikas, in volumes in response to a membership questionnaire brought through European Commission chief Ursula von … Read more
Airstrikes killed a minimum of six human beings in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on Monday, as Russia pounded goals across the U.S.A at the same time as massing forces for a predicted all-out assault in the east. The “powerful” airstrikes within the west came hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of looking to … Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said he has asked his French colleague to visit Ukraine to examine firsthand evidence that Russian soldiers have committed “genocide,” a phrase avoided by President Emmanuel Macron. “I talked to him yesterday,” Zelensky told CNN in an interview recorded on Friday but broadcast on Sunday. “I just told him I … Read more
