Russia said on Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone near one of its long-range bomber air bases deep inside its own territory, killing three Russian air force personnel. The drone was allegedly flying near Russia’s Engels air base, which is
In his Christmas message on Sunday, Pope Francis called for an end to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts, saying the world was suffering from a “famine of peace.” In his 10th Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the
During his first known trip outside the country since Russia invaded 10 months ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Joe Biden and deliver an address to both chambers of Congress on Wednesday. The visit comes at a critical juncture
Taking delivery of the first shipment of tanks and howitzers from South Korea on Tuesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda and the country’s defence minister applauded the prompt execution of a contract that was made in the summer in response to the conflict
Several Ukrainian embassies and consulates across Europe have received bloody packages containing animal eyes and explosives, officials announced late Friday. In a statement posted on Facebook, Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, claimed that embassies in Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands,
The foreign affairs minister of Zambia said on Monday that Zambia has urged Russia to explain how one of its people, who was serving a prison sentence in Moscow, wound up on the battlefield in Ukraine, where he was killed. Lemekhani Nyirenda
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations warned on Tuesday that if Russia followed out its “horrific” threats of a nuclear strike against its adversaries, America will respond with all of its might. Vladimir Putin‘s threats to deploy tactical nuclear weapons, according
Insisting that the transfer took place before Moscow’s war on Ukraine, which resulted in the Iranian-made drones dive-bombing Kyiv, Iran’s foreign minister acknowledged on Saturday that his country has supplied Russia with drones for the first time. The remarks by Hossein Amirabdollahian,
On Monday, blasts were heard in Kyiv, and Ukrainian authorities reported Russian missile strikes across the country after Moscow blamed Kyiv for an attack on its Black Sea fleet and backed out of a deal to allow Ukrainian grain shipments. “Another batch
Canada’s government announced Friday that it is imposing sanctions on 35 more Russians in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as issuing bonds that individuals can buy to support the Ukrainian government. According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the sanctioned
Ukrainian forces increased pressure on Russian positions in occupied Kherson on Friday, focusing on resupply routes across the Dnieper River as Kyiv moved closer to a full-scale assault to retake the strategic southern port city. Ukraine’s Army General Staff states that up
The horrors of war cannot be overemphasized. The hurt it leaves, the trauma, destruction of lives and properties cannot be quantified. It goes beyond the soldiers on the battlefield, or the support team in the control room, to the immediate locals who
The Ukrainian capital was shaken by several loud explosions on Monday, one week after Russia organized a huge, nationwide air strike. Vitaliy Klichko, the mayor of Kyiv, declared that the capital’s Shevchenko neighbourhood had been affected and asked citizens to seek refuge.
According to the U.N. nuclear inspector, continuous shelling has caused Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, to lose its final external power source. It now depends solely on emergency diesel generators. The plant’s connection to a 750-kilovolt line was severed around one
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, said on Thursday that it was “impossible to say” whether his military’s territorial gains had raised the chance of nuclear war, but he is still certain that his Russian counterpart would not survive such an escalation in
Following a year of volatility at the pump, the OPEC+ coalition said on Wednesday that it will reduce oil production by 2 million barrels per day. The OPEC+ alliance cited the “uncertainty that surrounds the global economy and oil market outlooks” in