MOSCOW – Russia has suffered “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “This is a huge tragedy for us,” he told SkyNews TV in an interview. The Russia-Ukraine war, which started February 24, has drawn international outrage, with the EU, US, and UK, among others, implementing tough fi...
MOSCOW – The Kremlin has denied Ukrainian reports of Russian airstrikes on a railway station in the eastern part of the country. Allegations by Kyiv of a deadly Russian rocket attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk are a provocation and “absolutely do not correspond to reality,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The [&h...
BERLIN – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov should be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their military aggression in Ukraine, Germany’s president has said. “Everyone who is responsible for these crimes will have to justify themselves. This includes soldiers. This includes military commanders....
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia said Friday that its forces had hit 81 more Ukrainian military infrastructure targets overnight. Three shipments of foreign military equipment were destroyed with high-precision weaponry at railway stations in Pokrovsk, Slavyansk, and Barvenkovo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a press briefing in ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has adopted its fifth package of sanctions on Russia, banning coal imports and trucks and ships from the country. “In light of Russia’s continuing war of aggression against Ukraine, and the reported atrocities committed by Russian armed forces in Ukraine, the Council decided today to impose the fifth package ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Over 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on Friday, the state railway company said. Two rockets hit a station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, where scores of people were waiting to be evacuated to […]
Professional athletes who are practicing Muslims fasting during daylight hours will need extra psychological and physical stamina to get through the month of Ramadan. Muslims are one of the largest faith-based groups in the U.K. Yet, the community has traditionally struggled for representation in British sports from national teams to lower lea...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has applauded the “overwhelming vote” in the UN General Assembly to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over the war in Ukraine. “This is a meaningful step by the international community further demonstrating how (President Vladimir) Putin’s war has made Russia an internatio...
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine on Friday accused Moscow of trying to recruit mercenaries, militants, and terrorists to wage Russia’s war against its western neighbor. “They’re looking for mercenaries from all over the world. They are sending the militants from all the terrorist groups and private armies that were established by some o...
MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister has accused Ukraine of presenting a “disruptive” new peace proposal, flouting terms reached at a meeting in Istanbul last week. The new proposal was presented yesterday to the negotiating group, Sergey Lavrov said in a video statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website. “Yesterday the Ukrain...
