MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s media watchdog has warned media against publishing a recent interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. “Roskomnadzor warns Russian media about the need to refrain from publishing this interview,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement on its official website. The statement added that ...
PARIS (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday distanced himself from his US counterpart Joe Biden calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher,” warning against an escalation of words and actions in Ukraine. “I will not use this kind of remark because I continue to talk with President Putin,” Macron told France 3 t...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India said Sunday the army successfully test-fired an air defense system off the coast of Odisha’s Balasore. The medium range surface to air missile (MRSAM) was tested around 10.30 a.m. (0500GMT) and it “intercepted a high-speed aerial target at long range,” the Defense Research and Development Organization said on Twitter. Th...
KYIV, Ukraine – Russia kidnapped the mayor of a northern Ukrainian city and also opened fire on civilians protesting Russia’s war, Ukrainian authorities have claimed. Yuriy Fomichev, mayor of the city of Slavutych, kidnapped by Russian forces after a group of protestors refused to disperse, said Aleksander Pavlyuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Mi...
PARIS (AA) – France, Greece, and Turkey will conduct a joint evacuation effort for residents in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Speaking at the end of a two-day EU summit in Brussels, Macron said the three countries would conduct an “exceptional humanitarian operation” to ge...
MOSCOW – Some 14,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 16,000 wounded since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed. The Russian armed forces gained air dominance and blocked the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mykolaiv, as well as Kherson and most of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Sergey Ru...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s president said Thursday that more than 2,000 children have been kidnapped since the start of Russia’s war against his country. “We do not know the whereabouts of our children,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the European Council summit, which he attended virtually. Zelenskyy also accused Russia...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – A total of 128 children have been killed in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine as of Thursday, according to Ukrainian officials. Also, more than 172 children have been injured in the conflict since it began late last month, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement. Russian shelling damaged 566 educ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Thursday urged the US and NATO to hold dialogue with Russia to “solve the root cause of the Ukraine crisis.” The NATO leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine which began on Feb. 24. On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had alleged that […]
WASHINGTON – The US will accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees and others fleeing the Russian war, the Biden administration has announced. “While we expect many Ukrainians will choose to remain in Europe close to family and their homes in Ukraine, today, the United States is announcing plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and othe...
