Putin says West trying to break up Russia. Accuses Kyiv, West of refusing to negotiate. Says 99.9% of Russians ready to defend motherland. President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview that was aired on Sunday that Russia is willing to dialogue with all parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine but that Kyiv and its … Read more
While the war rages across Ukraine, Mykhaylo Tereshchenko is engaged in a spiritual battle that threatens to split his parish. The priest is stumped. He is a priest of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church’s Moscow branch, which formally vows loyalty to Russia’s Patriarch Kirill. Tereshchenko, on the other hand, is a fervent Ukrainian nationalist who has been … Read more
The European Development Bank’s annual general assembly this week raised one billion euros ($1.04 billion) in aid for Ukraine, according to the institution’s president. The funding supplements a two-billion-euro “resilience package” announced by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Donors have expressed the intention” to provide … Read more
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday in Berlin that Ukraine wants a reserved seat in the European Union, even if full membership may take time. “It is not about the fastest possible membership for Ukraine in the EU. But what is very important for us is for this spot to be reserved for Ukraine,” he … Read more
As Moscow accused Kyiv of shelling a Russian city in the war’s latest flashpoint, Ukraine declared it will hold its first war crimes trial over the Russian invasion. The conflict has wreaked havoc on towns and uprooted millions, and fears of a wider international impact have grown as Russian gas supplies to Europe have been … Read more
In Tver, northwest of Moscow, a deadly fire broke out at an aeronautical research institute. A munitions plant in Perm, more than 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the east, has caught fire again. There were also fires in two different oil facilities in Bryansk, Belarus. Coincidences, or a clue that Ukrainians or their allies are … 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
Kyiv: Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, at noon on Saturday, announced a new attempt to evacuate civilians from the heavily damaged city of Mariupol. Vereshchuk said on Telegram, urging people to gather near the Port City shopping center. “If everything happens as planned, we will start the evacuation around noon.” In recent days, Ukraine … Read more
EU Commission President Charles Michel pledged on Wednesday that the EU will stay together in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine and will do everything possible to assist Kyiv in winning the war. “You are not alone. We are with you. And will do everything which is possible to support you and to make … Read more
The impact of the Ukraine crisis stretches to European stock markets on Tuesday, with the IMF reducing its global growth estimates. After opening, Wall Street was up, with the three major indices rising roughly 0.8 percent, a significant turnaround from Monday when markets were lower due to concerns about higher interest rates. In Europe, trade … Read more
After a Russian ultimatum for Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol to surrender expired on Sunday, Ukraine vowed to fight to the end in the southern port city where Moscow is aiming for a huge strategic triumph. “The city still has not fallen,” Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said hours after Moscow’s deadline for fighters holed up and … Read more
A series of strikes in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, in the country’s war-torn northeast, left at least five people dead and 13 injured on Sunday, according to a regional health official. The deaths were verified by Maksym Khaustov, the chief of the Kharkiv region’s health department, following a series of strikes that AFP correspondents … Read more
Major General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of Russia’s 8th Army, was buried Saturday after being killed in action in Ukraine, Russian state media said, making him the eighth Russian general killed in Moscow’s invasion, assuming Ukrainian reports are genuine. As of the end of March, around 14 Russian generals and senior colonels had been reported … Read more
As British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the latest Western leader to visit Kyiv, evacuations from Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, where a missile strike killed 52 people at a railway station, continued on Saturday. Johnson praised Ukraine’s response to the Russian invasion and offered armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles to assist ensure the country will … Read more
As a Ukrainian soldier enters, the startling ear-piercing beep of a radiation meter fills the room. At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, here is where Russian soldiers lived, radiation levels are now higher than normal. The source of the radioactive substance in the room isn’t apparent, but Ukrainian officials claim it’s caused by microscopic particles … Read more
