KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – People from 52 countries have arrived in Ukraine to join its fight against Russia, the country’s foreign minister said on Sunday. The world stands with Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba said during an online news conference. He recalled President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plea for volunteers to support Ukraine in its war agai...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Bombing innocent civilians “already fully qualifies as a war crime,” Johnson said during Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament. “What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin’s regime in the use of th...
EW DELHI (AA) – Russia on Wednesday said that it does not see any hurdle in the supply of the S-400 missile systems to India because of sanctions following the Ukraine crisis. “We don’t foresee any obstacles as far as S-400 supply to India is concerned; We have routes to continue with this deal unobstructed. […]
Several Africans attempting to flee Ukraine as the war rages on have claimed they experienced racist treatment at the border because of their race. Eswatini student Vkile Dlamini, who crossed to Romania from Ukraine, said that she undertook the most difficult journey of her life. “We were exposed to a lot of racism. Police pointed [&hell...
GENEVA (AA) – The number of people fleeing Ukraine since Russia launched war on its neighbor nearly a week ago is “extremely worrying,” as some 677,000 refugees have fled the country so far, the head of the UN Refugee Agency said Tuesday in Geneva. Filippo Grandi, the UN high commissioner for refugees, and Martin Griffiths, [&helli...
PARIS (AA) – A war of words erupted Tuesday after Moscow’s top security official threatened Paris with “real war” in response to a minister’s remarks about waging an “economic war” to punish Russia for launching an attack on Ukraine. “Today, some French minister has said that they declared an economic war on Russia. Watch your [&he...
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was on fire Friday after Russian strikes hit the Ukrainian facility, a spokesman said. Russia is now in control of the plant, as it intensifies strikes across the country. There are fresh reports of civilian casualties and devastating damage. That’s despite Moscow agreeing to Ukraine’s request for humanita...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN issued a stark warning on Friday after Russian forces attacked Europe’s largest nuclear facility, and seized it from Ukrainian authorities. The attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant resulted in a fire erupting at a training complex at the site, which was extinguished by Ukrainian firefi...
KYIV (AA) – A senior Russian military officer has been killed in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv city, a Ukrainian official claimed on Friday. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on Facebook that Andrei Sukhovetskiy, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, has been ki...
BUDAPEST – Over 120,000 people fleeing Ukraine have taken shelter in Hungary since the onset of the Russian attack on Ukraine. Gergely Gulyas, the chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the Hungary-Ukraine border gates are open and people are streaming in. Gulyas added that Budapest does not want to be […]
