Washington should be added to a “list of war criminals” as it is now directly participating in “hostilities” in Ukraine, Chairman of Russia’s State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin claimed on Saturday, citing media reports about alleged US intelligence-sharing with Ukraine. US Read more…
Ukraine’s ambassador to Berlin, Andrey Melnik, has refused to apologize to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for comparing him to an “offended liverwurst” over his reluctance to visit Kiev. The abrasive Melnik’s comments follow a phone call on Thursday between President Volodomyr Zelensky and Read more…
France refused to tell Britain how to stop Exocet missiles during the Falklands war because it did not want to hand “the keys to the safe” to a rival in the arms trade, a former French defence official has admitted. Pierre Razoux Read more…
Four oil reservoir tanks are ablaze after Ukrainian forces allegedly shelled the city of Makeyevka in the Donetsk Republic, local authorities reported on Wednesday. According to the territorial defense forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one person was killed Read more…
The outskirts of Kharkiv have the feel of an open-air morgue, where the dead lie unclaimed and unexplained, sometimes for weeks on end, as Ukrainian and Russian forces fight for control of slivers of land. There is the charred body Read more…
Ukrainian rescue workers on Friday recovered the body of a Radio Liberty producer from under the rubble of a building in Kyiv that was hit by a missile, the U.S. broadcaster said. Radio Liberty said in a statement that Vira Read more…
A former United States Marine has been killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, his relatives told news outlets, in the first known death of a US citizen fighting Russian forces in Ukraine. Rebecca Cabrera told CNN her Read more…
The dialogue on strategic stability between Russia and the US may only resume after all the goals of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine are achieved, a high-ranking Russian diplomat has said. “As of today, there’s no use talking about any Read more…
At least five cruise missiles struck Kiev on Thursday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed, accusing Moscow of carrying out the strike to deliberately “humiliate” the United Nations as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited the Ukrainian capital. “This says a lot about Russia’s true attitude Read more…
In the aftermath of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, some Russian banks were banned from SWIFT, the Belgium-based messaging service that lets banks around the world communicate about cross-border transactions. The ban has hampered cross-border transactions for Russia’s trade and financial Read more…
It is up to Ukraine to decide whether to expand the conflict with Russia beyond their own borders, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Senate on Wednesday. His comments come after Moscow condemned a senior British official who Read more…
McDonald’s is poised to take a bigger financial hit from the war in Ukraine and shuttered locations in Russia than any other major global restaurant chain, with investors watching on Thursday when it reports first quarter earnings to see how Read more…