Ukraine promises shelters for its people as winter sets in
Ukraine promised shelters with heat and water and encouraged its people to save energy as a harsh winter loomed amid relentless Russian strikes that have left its power structure in ...
Ukrainians brace for bleak winter as strikes cripple power capacity (wrapup)
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to Ukrainians to conserve energy amid relentless Russian strikes that have halved the country’s power capacity, as the United Nations health body warned of a ...
Ukraine to protest over Orban scarf
Ukraine will summon the Hungarian ambassador to protest that Prime Minister Viktor Orban went to a football match wearing a scarf depicting some Ukrainian territory as part of Hungary, the ...
Putin to meet mothers of soldiers called up to fight in Ukraine
Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin will in the coming days meet the mothers of reservists called up to fight in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
The war in Ukraine ...
‘Close call’ in shelling near nuclear reactor on Ukraine’s frontline
Ukraine narrowly escaped disaster during fighting at the weekend that rocked Europe’s largest atomic power plant with a barrage of shells, some falling near reactors and damaging a radioactive ...
Ukraine prosecutor says four suspected Russian torture sites found in Kherson
Ukrainian police and prosecutors have identified four places in Kherson where they suspect Russian forces tortured people before abandoning the city, the prosecutor general’s office said on Monday.
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Kremlin: no talk of new round of mobilisation
The Kremlin said on Monday it was not discussing calling up more Russian soldiers to fight in Ukraine through a second round of mobilisation.
Russia called up more than 300,000 reservists ...
Russia’s ‘General Armageddon’ under pressure to deliver on battlefield after retreat
Russia’s leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow’s forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in ...
Europe rushes to fill up on Russian diesel before ban begins
European traders are rushing to fill tanks in the region with Russian diesel before an EU ban begins in February, as alternative sources remain limited.
The European Union will ban ...
Russia trying to exhaust Ukraine’s air defenses, Pentagon official says
Russia’s surge in missile strikes in Ukraine is partly designed to exhaust Kyiv’s supplies of air defenses and finally achieve dominance of the skies above the country, a ...
Outspoken Ukrainian ex-ambassador named deputy minister
Ukraine’s outspoken former ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, has been appointed to the post of deputy foreign minister, a senior official said on Friday.
Taras Melnychuk, the government’s ...
Russia warms to US prisoner swap for arms trader Bout
Russia said on Friday it hoped to clinch a prisoner swap with the United States to return convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death”, in ...
Russia not ruling out more talks with U.S., foreign ministry says
Russia is not ruling out further high-level meetings with the United States on “strategic stability”, Moscow’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday, as an upcoming meeting between ...
Traces of explosives found at Nord Stream pipelines, Sweden says
Investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, confirming that sabotage had taken place, a Swedish prosecutor said on Friday.
Swedish and Danish ...
Ukraine energy supply under persistent Russian attacks
Russian missiles and shells hit Ukrainian positions in several regions and there was no let up in heavy fighting in Donetsk in the east, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday ...
Ukraine says half energy system crippled by Russian strikes, fighting rages
Successive waves of Russian missile strikes have crippled almost half of Ukraine’s energy system, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday, as heavy fighting raged in areas in the ...
Dutch court sentences three to life in prison for 2014 downing of MH17
Dutch judges on Thursday convicted three men of murder for their role in the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, and sentenced them to life in prison.
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Russia attacks Ukrainian missile plant and gas production facilities
Russia pounded gas production facilities and a major missile factory in new missile strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said.
Explosions were heard in several parts ...
Ukraine conflict intensifies in east; NATO, Poland say missile likely not from Russia
Ukraine said it faced fierce attacks in the east from Russian forces reinforced with troops withdrawn from Kherson in the south, while NATO and Poland concluded a missile that crashed ...
NATO, Warsaw say missile that hit Poland was Ukrainian stray
A missile that hit Poland killing two people was probably a Ukrainian air defence missile and there was no evidence to suggest the incident was an intentional attack by Russia, ...
Putin calls for price controls as Russian car sales crash to record low
President Vladimir Putin urged the Russian government on Wednesday to control car prices, as one industry head said Western sanctions could send annual sales crashing to below 1 million for the ...
Poland says missile that hit it was Ukrainian stray
A missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and NATO said on Wednesday, easing global concern that ...
Russia to blame for ‘incidents with missiles’ – Ukrainian official
A senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Russia was to blame for any “incidents with missiles” after waging war on his country.
Mykhailo Podolyak made ...
NATO envoys hold emergency meeting on Poland blast
NATO ambassadors will hold an emergency meeting at 1000 CET (0900 GMT) on Wednesday to discuss the missile strike in eastern Poland close to the Ukrainian border that killed two people on ...