We’ll be with you on ‘long road’ to membership, EU tells Ukraine
Ukraine now has a “very clear European perspective” but the road to EU membership will take time and require hard work, the president of the EU executive told the country’...
Russia abandons Snake Island in victory for Ukraine (Update 3)
Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island on Thursday in a victory for Ukraine that could loosen the grip of Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports.
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Putin rejects Johnson’s claim a woman wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s charge that if he were a woman he would not have invaded Ukraine.
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European court tells Russia to ensure two Britons do not face death penalty
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Thursday it had issued an order to Russia to ensure that the death penalty was not carried out against two Britons ...
Putin: Russia will respond if NATO sets up infrastructure in Finland, Sweden
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would respond in kind if NATO deployed troops and infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they join the U.S.-led military ...
NATO invites Finland, Sweden to join, says Russia is a ‘direct threat’ (Update)
NATO invited Sweden and Finland on Wednesday to join the military alliance in one of the biggest shifts in European security in decades after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed ...
NATO agrees military aid for ‘heroic’ Ukraine, Russia steps up attacks in south
NATO on Wednesday branded Russia the biggest “direct threat” to Western security after its invasion of Ukraine and agreed plans to modernise Kyiv’s beleaguered armed forces, saying it stood ...
Ukraine wins release of 144 soldiers in biggest prisoner swap of war
Ukraine on Wednesday carried out its biggest exchange of prisoners of war since Russia invaded, securing the release of 144 of its soldiers, including 95 who defended Mariupol’s steelworkers, Ukraine’s ...
Russia tells U.N. chief it’s ready to help avert food crisis
Russia said on Wednesday it was ready to work with the United Nations to combat the risks of a global food crisis, and was willing to meet its obligations to ...
Britain sanctions Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin
Britain on Wednesday announced sanctions on oligarch Vladimir Potanin, described by London as Russia’s second-richest man and who has been buying assets from firms exiting Russia over the invasion ...
Belarus threatens to execute activists for anti-war railway sabotage
Three Belarusian activists could be executed after being charged with conducting railway sabotage in Belarus to hinder the movement of Russian troops in the early phases of their invasion of ...
Russian missile strike in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv blamed for three deaths
At least three people were killed and five wounded by a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolaiv on Wednesday, said local authorities ...
US accuses five firms in China of supporting Russia’s military
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration added five companies in China to a trade blacklist for allegedly supporting Russia’s military and defense industrial base, flexing its muscle to ...
Dozens missing after Russian missile strike on mall kills 18 (Update 2)
Firefighters on Tuesday searched the rubble of a Ukrainian shopping mall where authorities said 36 people were missing after a Russian missile strike that killed at least 18, as a regional governor ...
Russia says missile hit on weapons depot, not ’empty’ Kremenchuk shopping centre
Russia’s defence ministry on Tuesday denied hitting a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk with missiles, saying it had struck a weapons depot and a subsequent explosion ...
Sweden’s Kurds fear they may pay price for NATO bid as Turkey fumes
Kurds in Sweden’s large diaspora are worried they will become a pawn in the negotiations over Stockholm’s ambition to join NATO if the West makes concessions to win ...
West pledges unwavering support for Ukraine as missiles strike shopping centre (Update 5)
Western nations on Monday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, including more sanctions on Moscow and air-defence systems, as Ukrainian officials said two Russian missiles struck ...
G7 to stand with Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’ (Updated)
The Group of Seven club of wealthy nations on Monday vowed to stand with Ukraine “for as long as it takes”, promising to tighten the squeeze on Russia’s finances ...
G7 to hike sanctions on Russia, nears oil price cap deal
The Group of Seven rich democracies will commit on Tuesday to a new package of coordinated actions meant to raise pressure on Russia over its war in Ukraine, and will ...
NATO to pledge aid to Baltics and Ukraine, urge Turkey to let in Nordics
NATO leaders will urge Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to lift his veto over Finland and Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance when they meet for a three-day summit ...
Russian forces turn sights on Lysychansk in battle for eastern Ukraine
Russian forces were fighting on Monday to achieve one of their strategic objectives in Ukraine as Moscow-backed separatists said they were pushing into Lysychansk, the last major city still held ...
Leaders at G7 mock bare-chested horseback rider Putin
Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations mocked the macho image of their absent adversary Vladimir Putin on Sunday, at a meeting in Germany dominated by the Russian President’...
Putin to make first foreign trip since launching Ukraine war
Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader’s first known ...
Russia steps up missile strikes on Ukraine as G7 leaders gather (Update 5)
Russian missiles hit an apartment block and kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, in strikes U.S. President Joe Biden condemned as “barbarism” as world leaders gathered in ...