MOSCOW – Some 14,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 16,000 wounded since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed. The Russian armed forces gained air dominance and blocked the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mykolaiv, as well as Kherson and most of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Sergey Ru...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s president said Thursday that more than 2,000 children have been kidnapped since the start of Russia’s war against his country. “We do not know the whereabouts of our children,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the European Council summit, which he attended virtually. Zelenskyy also accused Russia...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – A total of 128 children have been killed in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine as of Thursday, according to Ukrainian officials. Also, more than 172 children have been injured in the conflict since it began late last month, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement. Russian shelling damaged 566 educ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Thursday urged the US and NATO to hold dialogue with Russia to “solve the root cause of the Ukraine crisis.” The NATO leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine which began on Feb. 24. On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had alleged that […]
WASHINGTON – The US will accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees and others fleeing the Russian war, the Biden administration has announced. “While we expect many Ukrainians will choose to remain in Europe close to family and their homes in Ukraine, today, the United States is announcing plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and othe...
ISTANBUL – Sanctions-hit Russia and Iran are focusing their efforts on bypassing SWIFT with an alternative interbank messaging system, an Iranian diplomat announced. “We are making efforts in this direction,” said Kazem Jalali, Iran’s ambassador to Russia, according to Russian news channel RT. Under Western sanctions ov...
WASHINGTON – The UN General Assembly has once again voted to denounce its war on Ukraine and called for an immediate end. A total of 140 nations voted to censure Russia after one day of debate, with one less nation voting to do so compared to an earlier vote on March 2. As with the […]
BERLIN – The G7 group of the world’s major economic powers has warned Russia against the use of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine. “We warn against any threat of the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons or related materials,” the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US said [...
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden called for Russia to be expelled from the G20 group of nations due to its ongoing war against Ukraine. Biden, however, acknowledged that any action “depends on the G20,” but said it was discussed during his meetings with NATO and allied nations in Brussels. Biden said he proposed an [&helli...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said thousands of Ukrainian civilians were evacuated Wednesday from the cities of Mariupol and Huliaipole. Speaking on her social media account, Vereshchuk said seven of nine evacuation corridors were used to take civilians out of conflict zones. A total of 4,554 people were...
