The death toll rose to at least 25 on Sunday after a strike on a residential building in Dnipro the previous day, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The mayor of Dnipro said the chances of recovering more survivors from the rubble is now ‘minimal’. Follow FRANCE 24’s liveblog for all the latest developments.…
1. Kyiv sends reinforcements to Soledar after ‘Putin’s Chef’ says he wants its salt mines Ukraine said it was strengthening its forces around Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region and repelling constant attacks there by the Russian mercenary group Wagner, whose leader has vowed to capture the area’s vast underground…
Issued on: 24/12/2022 – 11:35Modified: 24/12/2022 – 16:33 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a Russian act of “terror” after at least five people were killed on Saturday in a strike on the centre of Kherson in southern Ukraine. The attack comes a day after the US House of Representatives gave final approval to a…
At least two people were killed and five wounded in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Monday after what the regional governor said was “massive shelling” by Russian forces. Ukrainian troops liberated the city from Russian occupation on November 11 and Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have been firing on it since…
1. Russia boosting production of ‘powerful’ weapons, says Medvedev Russia is producing more destructive weapons to counter western countries that support Kyiv, said Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday. “Our enemy is entrenched … in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a whole number of other places that have sworn…
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President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the frontline city of Sloviansk on Tuesday in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which Russia claims as its own, his office said, as Ukraine scrambled to restore its battered power grid a day after key facilities were targeted in the latest wave of Russian missile strikes. Follow our live blog…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday accused Western leaders of looking to militarize Southeast Asia to contain Moscow and Beijing’s interests in the region. “The United States and its NATO allies are trying to master this space,” Lavrov told reporters in Cambodia. He was speaking at a press conference…
Press play to listen to this article KYIV — Oleh Ocheretyanyi isn’t buying Russian President Vladimir Putin’s argument that Monday’s bombardment of central Kyiv was revenge for Saturday’s attack on the bridge connecting Russia to illegally occupied Crimea. A few hours after the attack, with obvious curiosity, the 31-year-old picked…
Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna, and a board member of ENI. Her new book, “A Green and Global Europe,” will be published by Polity. Wars are unpredictable until the end. Yet, since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began liberating swathes of territory…
President Vladimir Putin vowed Russia’s annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine is irreversible as he formalized Europe’s biggest land grab since World War II, defying efforts by Kyiv, backed by the U.S. and its allies, to recapture its lost territory. “They will become our citizens forever,” he told officials…