Russia on brink of its first debt default since 1998 as the Sunday deadline to make a $100m interest payment seems certain to be missed. Russia has the money and is willing to pay, but sanctions make it impossible to get the payments to international creditors. Read More: Russia promises Belarus Iskander-M nuclear-capable missiles The … Read more
The Group of Seven industrialized nations declared on Saturday that they would never recognise the borders that Russia is attempting to impose by force in its war against Ukraine and that they would continue to back Kyiv. On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine, but Kyiv’s military was able to expel Moscow’s troops out of the … Read more
In a remote address to parliament in Kyiv on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised additional £300 million ($376 million, 358 million euros) in UK military aid for Ukraine, hailing the country’s resistance to Russia as its “finest hour.” Johnson praised Kyiv for battling “with the intensity and valour of lions” in his video address … Read more
Officials in Europe were working on a new set of penalties to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, but some members are jockeying to avoid an oil embargo. The European Commission is set to give along with the draught plan to member states later Tuesday, according to several EU officials and European … Read more
Ministers from the European Union gathered on Monday to debate how to respond to Russia’s cutoff of gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, as well as preparations for an oil embargo to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine. The 27 member states’ energy ministers were coordinating steps to prevent what Brussels has described as the Kremlin’s … Read more
Vlodko Kaufman, a Ukrainian artist, hopes to one day be able to stop sketching portraits of Russian warriors murdered on energy bills and old tram tickets. “Every day I keep track of what is happening at the front, how many are killed, wounded, missing or captured,” the 65-year-old said. Each bleak report is accompanied by … Read more
The important port city of Mariupol “has not fallen,” according to Ukraine’s prime minister, who also stated that the besieged soldiers protecting the city from the Russian onslaught will “fight until the end.” Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told ABC’s “This Week” that “the city still has not fallen. There’s still our military forces, our soldiers. … Read more
Russia warned the US this week that sending its “most sensitive” weapons systems to Ukraine, as Zelensky has demanded, would have “unprecedented consequences.” Its defence ministry said Saturday that it shot down a Ukrainian transport jet carrying weaponry provided by Western nations over the Odesa region. “During the night, high-precision, air-launched missiles destroyed an ammunitions … Read more
As part of a crackdown on dissent, Russian authorities declared famous Kremlin critics such as documentary filmmaker Yuri Dud and political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann “foreign agents” on Friday. In a statement, the Russian justice ministry said it had added nine people to its growing list of “foreign agents,” including Dud Schulmann, 43, and caricaturist Sergei … Read more
On Saturday, Russia increased air raids on Kyiv, killing at least one person at a tank factory, a day after Moscow threatened it would resume attacks in the Ukrainian capital after two weeks of relative calm. President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the removal of the last Ukrainian forces stuck in the besieged southern port of … Read more
Inside a crowded warehouse in war-torn Ukraine, 35-year-old volunteer Roman Kolobochok said he was there to find a sniper scope for a comrade on the frontlines. His friend had sent him a link to a website where he could get the telescopic lens he needed, and he was in the process of placing an order … Read more
According to two US officials and another source familiar with the document, Russia publicly protested the US’ continuous shipping of weaponry to Ukraine this week, writing a diplomatic note to the State Department warning of “unpredictable consequences” if the support continues. The note, known as a demarche, was issued earlier this week, just as the … Read more
Federal prosecutors have charged a high-ranking Putin-aligned Russian senator and two of his staff with running a foreign influence and disinformation network in the United States, which included attempts to sway members of Congress. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday in federal court in New York City, Aleksander Babakov, the deputy chairman of the Russian … Read more
The Wagner Group, a secretive paramilitary organization linked to Russia’s government, has played a key role in Libya’s civil war, helping renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA). In recent weeks, Western watchers began to question if Wagner soldiers would leave Libya to focus on assisting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite the … Read more
According to a report released Friday, Russia warned the US and NATO this week that continuing to give Ukraine “sensitive” weapons might have “unpredictable consequences” as it prepared to unleash a huge ground offensive in eastern Ukraine. Artillery, coastal defense drones, anti-aircraft, and anti-tank armored vehicles, and Mi-17 helicopters are among the $800 million in … Read more
US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a virtual summit Monday, clouded by US frustration over New Delhi’s neutral stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The South Asian nation has tried to walk a tightrope between maintaining relations with the West and avoiding alienating Russia and has not imposed sanctions over … Read more
