GENEVA – The civilian death toll in Russia-Ukraine war has climbed to 1,766 people with 2,383 others injured, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said. In its daily update, the OHCHR said most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons, including shelling from […...
MOSCOW – Russia’s watchdog Roskomnadzor has demanded from Google to unblock the DumaTV channel on YouTube video hosting. “Roskomnadzor demanded from the American company Google LLC, which owns the Internet service YouTube, immediately restore access to the channel of the State Duma of the Russian Federation DumaTV on the video hosting an...
LONDON, UK (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday made an unannounced visit to Ukraine where he held talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to a government statement, Johnson pledged further military and humanitarian support to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s “special military operationR...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ten humanitarian corridors have been agreed upon to evacuate civilians from Ukraine’s besieged southern cities, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said Saturday. In a Telegram post, Iryna Vereshchuk said the civilians could cross into safe regions through the corridors, adding they could use private vehicles...
BRUSSELS – Ukraine is in immediate need for weapons and measures from Western allies to stop the Russian war machine, the country’s top diplomat has said. Speaking at a news conference following talks with NATO foreign ministers, Dmytro Kuleba said he only had “three points on his agenda: Weapons, weapons, weapons.” Kul...
MOSCOW – Russia has suffered “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “This is a huge tragedy for us,” he told SkyNews TV in an interview. The Russia-Ukraine war, which started February 24, has drawn international outrage, with the EU, US, and UK, among others, implementing tough fi...
MOSCOW – The Kremlin has denied Ukrainian reports of Russian airstrikes on a railway station in the eastern part of the country. Allegations by Kyiv of a deadly Russian rocket attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk are a provocation and “absolutely do not correspond to reality,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The [&h...
BERLIN – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov should be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their military aggression in Ukraine, Germany’s president has said. “Everyone who is responsible for these crimes will have to justify themselves. This includes soldiers. This includes military commanders....
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia said Friday that its forces had hit 81 more Ukrainian military infrastructure targets overnight. Three shipments of foreign military equipment were destroyed with high-precision weaponry at railway stations in Pokrovsk, Slavyansk, and Barvenkovo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a press briefing in ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has adopted its fifth package of sanctions on Russia, banning coal imports and trucks and ships from the country. “In light of Russia’s continuing war of aggression against Ukraine, and the reported atrocities committed by Russian armed forces in Ukraine, the Council decided today to impose the fifth package ...
