MOSCOW (AA): Russian officials on Friday reported multiple drone attacks in regions bordering Ukraine, carried out Thursday night. The governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said in a statement on Telegram that “several Ukrainian drones were shot down” near the region’s administrative center, the city of Ku...
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP): Moscow has said that it thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to “invade” its southwestern border as Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles, killing three including a child. The Ukrainian capital faced nearly nightly air raids in May, including an unusual daytime attack on Monday that sent residents running for shelter. As K...
BERLIN (AA): Germany asked Russia on Wednesday to close four of its consulates in the country as tensions continue to mount between the two countries. At a news conference in Berlin, Foreign Ministry spokesman Christofer Burger accused Russia of escalating tensions with its decision to limit the maximum number of staff at German diplomatic mis...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Russia on Wednesday claimed that it had destroyed the last major warship of the Ukrainian naval forces, which it said was stationed in the southern port of Odesa. “On May 29, a high-precision strike by the Russian Air Force on a ship anchorage site in the port of Odesa destroyed the last […]
ANKARA (AA): The Australian defense forces chief on Tuesday faced tough questions following his move to remove the military honors of some soldiers who served in Afghanistan, over alleged war crimes, according to local media. During a parliament hearing, a senator said Gen. Angus Campbell was not on the front line in Afghanistan, so he [&helli...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): A swarm of drones hit Moscow on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack, while Russian drones struck Kyiv for a third straight day as Ukraine gears up for a major offensive against Russian forces. The Russian defence ministry blamed Kyiv for the attacks that saw three drones crash into residential buildings in Moscow. [&hellip...
MOSCOW (AA): The deputy head of Russia’s Security Council has warned that if the West delivered nuclear arms to Ukraine, Russia would have to carry out a preventive strike. Dmitry Medvedev told reporters in Moscow that the West has been supplying Ukraine with gradually heavier weapons since the beginning of the war last year, when [&hell...
MOSCOW (AA): The Russian Foreign Ministry Friday summoned senior US diplomats to protest what it called “hypocritical and deceitful” remarks by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. “It was emphasized that assurances of American officials that the US does not encourage such attacks on Russia are hypocritical and deceitful, gi...
United Nations, United States (AFP): Fighting in Sudan could turn into an ethnic conflict if the warring parties do not respect and extend the ceasefire that took effect Monday, the UN representative to the conflict has said. “The growing ethnicization of the conflict risks to expand and prolong it with implications for the region,”...
Washington, United States (AFP): Warring sides in Sudan have reached an agreement for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire, the United States and Saudi Arabia said Saturday in a joint statement after talks in Jeddah. Representatives from both army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo vowed not to s...
