GENEVA – The number of civilian deaths recorded since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine has reached 780, while 1,252 more have been wounded, the UN Human Rights Office has said on March 17. These figures, however, are likely to be significantly lower than the actual toll. At the same time, the UN Refugee […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina has the right to decide whether to be a member of NATO but Moscow reserves the right to react to such a possibility under its interests, a Russian envoy said Thursday. “If Bosnia and Herzegovina decides to be a member of anything, it is an internal matter. But […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Another American has died as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Thursday. Blinken did not identify the victim, nor did he provide any circumstances that led to the death. That comes after journalist Brent Renaud was killed on Sunday. At least two other American [&he...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran on Sunday claimed an overnight attack on what it said were Israeli facilities in Erbil in northern Iraq with precision-guided missiles. In a statement on Sunday, the public relations wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for Saturday’s strike in the Kurdish Regional Governmen...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – People from 52 countries have arrived in Ukraine to join its fight against Russia, the country’s foreign minister said on Sunday. The world stands with Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba said during an online news conference. He recalled President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plea for volunteers to support Ukraine in its war agai...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN issued a stark warning on Friday after Russian forces attacked Europe’s largest nuclear facility, and seized it from Ukrainian authorities. The attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant resulted in a fire erupting at a training complex at the site, which was extinguished by Ukrainian firefi...
KYIV (AA) – A senior Russian military officer has been killed in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv city, a Ukrainian official claimed on Friday. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on Facebook that Andrei Sukhovetskiy, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, has been ki...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has said that 498 of its soldiers have been killed and 1,597 others wounded since its forces entered Ukraine. In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that more than 2,870 Ukrainian soldiers and “nationalists” have also been killed. Russia’s war on Ukraine, which began on February 24, ha...
PARIS (AA) – Soldiers from the French army’s foreign legion have been detained in Paris for attempting to join the Ukraine war to fight Russian forces. Fourteen legionnaires of Ukrainian origin were arrested March 1 on board a bus leaving for Poland. According to military sources, some of the passengers were suspected to have mater...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Bombing innocent civilians “already fully qualifies as a war crime,” Johnson said during Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament. “What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin’s regime in the use of th...
