President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Tuesday for major reinforcement of sectors in eastern Ukraine of the 1,000-km (600-mile) front line, where Russian forces have made consistent gains in recent months. Zelenskyy issued his appeal as Russia’s Defence Ministry said its troops had captured two new front-line villages — one in Donetsk region, the main focus of the…
Ukraine needs robust security guarantees and a just peace, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday, adding Kyiv alone would decide when to start negotiations with Russia. “If we talk about peace, it must be a just peace, it must not be a frozen conflict, that only leads to further armaments and further attacks…
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused Western countries of wanting a ceasefire in Ukraine so they could rearm Kyiv with advanced weapons. Talk of negotiations for a ceasefire or peace deal in the three-year conflict has come to the fore following Donald Trump’s victory in last month’s US presidential election. The West is “starting to…
The Russian defense ministry said on Sunday its forces had gained control over two settlements, Illinka and Petrivka, in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. It also said that Russian air defense shot down 55 Ukrainian drones for the past 24 hours. Reuters could not independently verify battlefield accounts from either side. Russian forces hold a little…
European Council President Antonio Costa and Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, arrived in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, using the first day in their new roles to send a message of support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Their visit comes as Ukraine struggles to fend off a grinding Russian offensive…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron vowed Friday to give Ukraine intense support in its battle against Russia’s “escalation” of its invasion, his office said. Macron condemned Russia’s “indiscriminate” strikes against Ukraine’s cities and power infrastructure in a telephone call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Elysee Palace said. “These strikes, the growing cooperation with North Korea…
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and agreed to boost military cooperation between the two nations, Pyongyang state media said Saturday. The US and South Korea have accused the nuclear-armed North of sending more than 10,000 soldiers to help Russia fight Ukraine, with experts saying Kim is eager to gain…
The US decision to allow Ukraine to fire American weapons deeper into Russia has not increased the risk of a nuclear attack, which is unlikely, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly bellicose statements, five sources familiar with US intelligence told Reuters. But Russia is likely to expand a campaign of sabotage against European targets to…
US President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing a $725 million weapons package for Ukraine, two US officials said on Wednesday, as the outgoing president seeks to bolster the government in Kyiv before leaving office in January. According to an official familiar with the plan, the Biden administration plans to provide a variety of anti-tank weapons from US stocks…
Russian forces captured a British mercenary fighting with the Ukrainian army in Russia’s Kursk region, which is still partially controlled by Kyiv forces, a security source told Russia’s RIA state news agency. “A mercenary from Great Britain, who called himself James Scott Rhys Anderson, was captured. He is now giving evidence,” the Russian source told RIA…
Russia has removed a senior general in Ukraine for giving misleading reports about the progress of the war as Defense Minister Andrei Belousov tries to clear out poor commanders, pro-Russian war bloggers and Russian media said. Ahead of winter, Russian forces advanced at the fastest rate in Ukraine since the start of the 2022 invasion,…
Ukraine has lost over 40 percent of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it rapidly seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counterassaults, a senior Ukrainian military source said. The source, who is on Ukraine’s General Staff, said Russia had deployed some 59,000 troops to the Kursk…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would carry out more tests of the hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile in “combat conditions,” a day after firing one on Ukraine. “We will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and character of the security threats posted to Russia,” Putin said in a…
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a televised address from the Kremlin on Thursday evening, on his statement Putin said that he would like to inform the military personnel of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, citizens of our country, our friends across the globe, and those who persist in the illusion that a strategic defeat can be inflicted upon Russia, about the events taking place today in the zone of the special…
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says NATO troop deployment in Ukraine would spark global catastrophe. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized Thursday the opening of the US-NATO missile defense base in Poland. It is “a blatantly provocative step in a series of deeply destabilizing actions by the United States and its NATO allies in the strategic…
