LONDON – It is “entirely legitimate” for Ukraine to hit military targets within Russia using Western-supplied weapons, a top British defense official has said. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey has said Ukrainian forces have every right to go after Russian supply lines and destroy them to hinder Moscow’s war effort and add more pressur...
GENEVA – The UN refugee agency has projected that the number of people fleeing the war in Ukraine will soar to 8.3 million by the end of this year. “The rapidity with which people are fleeing, we have not seen in recent times,” UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo said. Mantoo said the number of internally displaced […]
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine “clearly believes” it can win the war against Russia, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday. “My trip to Kyiv reinforced my admiration for the way that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are deploying these capabilities. Ukraine clearly believes that it can win and so does everyone here,R...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia and Belarus will conduct a joint military exercise starting Tuesday. “Joint staff training will be held in the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of Belarus on April 26-29 with the participation of representatives of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the Belarusian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – The British government announced on Tuesday the removal of all tariffs covered by the existing UK-Ukraine trade agreement and imposed fresh sanctions on the Russian economy. The decision came in response to a direct request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to support the Ukrainian economy, said UK International ...
MOSCOW – Russia has declared 40 German diplomats persona non grata in a retaliatory move amid continued diplomatic fallout from the two-month-old war in Ukraine. “On April 25, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation Geza Andreas von Geyr was summoned to the Russian F...
LONDON (AA) – Around 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, according to the British defense secretary. While addressing the British parliament, Ben Wallace also announced further British support for Ukraine. “The offensive that was supposed to take a maximum of a week has now taken weeks,” W...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has told the US to stop giving weapons to Ukraine, warning that its actions could intensify the conflict, Moscow’s envoy to Washington said on Monday. The US sending arms worth $800 million to Kyiv “does not contribute to the search for a diplomatic solution or settlement,” Anatoly Antonov said in an […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia is failing to achieve its war aims in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. A day after a meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a news conference in Poland. “When it comes to Russia’s war aims, [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday criticized US President Joe Biden’s recent statements on the events of 1915, calling them ahistorical and based on misinformation. “The US president should learn and know history very well,” Erdogan told reporters in the capital Ankara after a Cabinet meeting. “We canno...
