MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister has said that his country will pursue the goals of its military operation even after a peace agreement with Ukraine. Speaking on television in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov said that the military infrastructure of Ukraine that is a constant threat to Russia must be destroyed. “Demilitarization ̵...
Georgia is going to officially apply for EU membership, the country’s top officials have announced. The announcement was made on Twitter by Shalva Papuashvili, head of the Georgian Parliament, and Nikoloz Samkharadze, chair of the Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee. Georgia’s aim to join the European bloc comes in parallel with Ukr...
MOSCOW (AA) – The goal of Moscow’s special military operation is to demilitarize Ukraine, Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Once Ukraine has been demilitarized, the Ukrainians “must decide themselves how they will live,” Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV channel. All people living in Ukraine must have a say ...
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine’s president said early Thursday that nearly 9,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the war on the country began a week ago. “About 9,000 Russians were killed in a week. In the direction of Mykolaiv, they had to take 200, 300 (Russian soldiers) 19-20 years old with dozens of helicopters,” Volodymyr […]...
GENEVA (A) – One million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched attacked the country, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said early Thursday. “In just seven days, we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighboring countries,” said Filippo Grandi on Twitter. “For many millions more inside Ukraine, ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has said that 498 of its soldiers have been killed and 1,597 others wounded since its forces entered Ukraine. In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that more than 2,870 Ukrainian soldiers and “nationalists” have also been killed. Russia’s war on Ukraine, which began on February 24, ha...
PARIS (AA) – Soldiers from the French army’s foreign legion have been detained in Paris for attempting to join the Ukraine war to fight Russian forces. Fourteen legionnaires of Ukrainian origin were arrested March 1 on board a bus leaving for Poland. According to military sources, some of the passengers were suspected to have mater...
DOHA (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Wednesday discussed regional developments with General Kenneth McKenzie of the United States. A statement by the emir’s office, the Amiri Diwan, said talks with the commander of the US Central Command in Doha took up strategic relations between the two countries and developme...
GENEVA (AA) – The prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO said on Wednesday. A WHO report highlights those most affected by the pandemic and found that people with more severe mental disorders, such as psychoses, and young people with mental disorders, were […...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye and Jordan said Wednesday that they will together devise a plan for the return of Syrian refugees to their country. Turkiye’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi in the capital Ankara after a meeting in which they discussed regional and bil...
