WARSAW – Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has strongly criticized Hungary’s policy on the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine. Duda said that Hungary’s high dependence on Russian energy supplies has made Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban cautious. However, he added, it is hard to understand Hungary’s policies given the deaths of hundreds a...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday called Russia’s war on Ukraine a “strategic failure” for Moscow. Biden spoke during a two-day visit to the Polish capital of Warsaw, Ukraine’s largest neighbor directly to the West. After calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher” earlier Saturday, Biden predicted Russia’s latest war will end in i...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia used high-precision weapons to hit a fuel depot near Lviv, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing in Moscow. It destroyed an airfield and a repair plant in Lviv and a missile depot near the capital Kyiv over the past day. “In total, since the beginning of the special […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The next meeting of Russian and Ukrainian negotiating teams will be held in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul, the Turkish and Russian presidents agreed on Sunday. In a phone call, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and the negotiations, said a sta...
GENEVA (AA) – The number of civilians killed in Ukraine since Russia’s war on it began has climbed to 1,119, but is likely much higher, the UN said Sunday, as those fleeing the war have swelled to over 3.8 million. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that from Feb. […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s media watchdog has warned media against publishing a recent interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. “Roskomnadzor warns Russian media about the need to refrain from publishing this interview,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement on its official website. The statement added that ...
PARIS (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday distanced himself from his US counterpart Joe Biden calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher,” warning against an escalation of words and actions in Ukraine. “I will not use this kind of remark because I continue to talk with President Putin,” Macron told France 3 t...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India said Sunday the army successfully test-fired an air defense system off the coast of Odisha’s Balasore. The medium range surface to air missile (MRSAM) was tested around 10.30 a.m. (0500GMT) and it “intercepted a high-speed aerial target at long range,” the Defense Research and Development Organization said on Twitter. Th...
KYIV, Ukraine – Russia kidnapped the mayor of a northern Ukrainian city and also opened fire on civilians protesting Russia’s war, Ukrainian authorities have claimed. Yuriy Fomichev, mayor of the city of Slavutych, kidnapped by Russian forces after a group of protestors refused to disperse, said Aleksander Pavlyuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Mi...
PARIS (AA) – France, Greece, and Turkey will conduct a joint evacuation effort for residents in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Speaking at the end of a two-day EU summit in Brussels, Macron said the three countries would conduct an “exceptional humanitarian operation” to ge...
