KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s defense minister said Thursday that more than 200,000 Ukrainian citizens have returned from Europe to protect their country. “More than 100,000 Ukrainian citizens joined the army. More than 200,000 of our citizens returned from Europe to protect our country,” said Oleksii Reznikov. “There ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye has evacuated 13,719 citizens from Ukraine since Russia launched a war on its neighbor, the Turkish foreign minister said Thursday. Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter that 125 citizens had set out from Ukraine today. Cavusoglu said citizens were coming to Turkey from Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Kremenchuk. He wished all the [&h...
BERLIN – Germany has reported a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, with 262,752 contracting the disease. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s disease control agency, confirmed 262,752 new COVID-19 cases and 259 related fatalities in the past 24 hours. The relaxation of anti-coronavirus measures last month and the s...
BUDAPEST – AA: The number of Ukrainian refugees in Hungary exceeded 200,000 on Thursday, taking the total number of those who have fled to 2.3 million. Stating that his country condemns the attack on Ukraine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto said they will continue to support Ukraine’s territoria...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that he fears Russian President Vladimir Putin might use chemical weapons in Ukraine. “The stuff that you’re hearing about chemical weapons is straight out of their playbook,” Johnson said in an interview with Sky News. “They start saying that there are ch...
LONDON (AA) – The British army has confirmed that a number of its active soldiers have gone to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces. An unnamed spokesperson was quoted by Sky News as saying that they were “aware of a small number of individual soldiers who have disobeyed orders and gone absent without leave and […]
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has said that her country is not considering NATO membership for now. “The basis of the European security system is formed by the fact that each country implements its own security policy. So we created our own security system,” she added. Meanwhile, Finnish Prime Minister...
MOSCOW- The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has claimed that documents suggest “components of bioweapons were being developed in Ukraine.” Speaking at a weekly briefing in Moscow, Maria Zakharova said the Russian armed forces received evidence of the development of biological weapon components by Ukraine under US guidance. She...
More than 2 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion less than two weeks ago, the United Nations refugee agency or UNHCR said. Poland alone has received nearly half of those Ukrainians seeking refuge. Tuesday’s figures show 1.2 million people have crossed into the country in the past 13 days. Hungary [&hel...
British MPs on Tuesday gave a standing ovation for Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky before he gave a historic virtual address to the House of Commons. Speaking via video, the embattled president spoke to MPs as part of his diplomatic push for more Western action against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky said Ukrainians “...
