Ukraine's president has named Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy as the country's top military commander. Russia's election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in next month's presidential vote
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The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has risen to 11,078, according to the Hamas-led health ministry. Among the dead were 4,506 children. Police block Palestinian worshippers from Friday prayers at the entrance to the Old City in Jerusalem. A senior Ukrainian official rejects a land swap in any negotiations with Russia.
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A ground invasion appears under way in Gaza as mobile phone service and internet connectivity ceases. The U.N. reiterates pleas for humanitarian aid to resume and for a ceasefire to be implemented. The wives and children of active Ukrainian servicemen plead for limits to their tours of duty on the frontlines.
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Another group of lorries passed into Gaza from Egypt bringing much needed aid. Israel strikes targets in Gaza and the West Bank. A private Ukrainian postal depot was struck by Russian missiles - dead and injured
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The annual UNGA gets underway today in New York. Though there are some notable no-shows among the permanent members of the Security Council. In the next days the progress of achieving the Millennium Development Goals will be reviewed and climate and health will dominate side discussions.
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While the Odesa region remained quiet after several nights of Russian attacks, the Kyiv region repelled waves of drones. The IAEA has found mines on the site of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
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In the 4th attack in as many days, Russian missiles struck agricultural warehouses in Odesa overnight, destroying tons of crops, a Ukrainian military official said, adding they were carried out with Kalibr missiles fired from the Black Sea and destroyed 100 tons of peas and 20 tons of barley. Two people were injured
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Overnight strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv and Odesa caused injuries and significant damage - including to an administrative building in Odesa. Grain and corn prices rise due to a Russian blockade of the Black Sea
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Death and destruction in Sumy from a Russian drone attack. The EU is pondering concessions to Russia to keep the Black Sea grain deal alive
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Extremely fierce battles" are raging in parts of Ukraine as Kyiv's forces continue their counter-offensive, the country's deputy defence minister says
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Ukraine’s military intelligence has claimed, without offering evidence, that Russia is plotting a “large-scale provocation” at a nuclear power plant it occupies in the southeast of the country with the aim of disrupting a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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Russia launched 36 Iranian-made Shahed drones against Ukraine overnight Thursday, Ukraine’s Air Force reports. All the drones were shot down. Separately, a Russian missile hit a medical clinic in Dnipro, killing at least one and injuring 15 - including 2 children.
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The Ukrainian military reported on May 5 that fresh Russian reinforcements were being brought into Bakhmut, the city at the epicenter of Moscow's push in eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia overnight shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, regional authorities said on May 5, as fighting intensified in Bakhmut
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Ukraine says its forces have repelleddozens of attacks as the invading Russian military pressed on with its offensive in the eastern Donetsk region with air strikes and artillery attacks. Ukraine is at a critical juncture in the war and both the country and its allies must not lose sight of the path to victory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on April 11.
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the liberation of Bucha, the Ukrainian town that has become synonymous with unspeakable Russian war crimes. Bucha and Bucha district saw 33 days of occupation. More than 1,400 deaths, including 37 children. More than 175 people were found in mass graves and torture chambers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was shown on state TV visiting the occupied city of Mariupol in the early, pre-dawn hours of Sunday.
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Ukraine's military says it had repelled more than 130 enemy attacks in 24 hours and claimed to be inflicting massive Russian casualties but gave no definitive word on the fate of Bakhmut, where Russian forces were said to have nearly surrounded the devastated city.
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Ukrainian forces repelled numerous Russian attacks in Bakhmut over the past 24 hours, Kyiv said on March 4, despite claims by Moscow's mercenaries that the eastern city that has been the focal point of Russia's months-long assault had been nearly completely surrounded. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland made a surprise visit to Ukraine
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On the battlefield, the fight for the eastern city of Bakhmut raged on. While in Zaporizhizhia another Russian missile strike on populated civilian targets resulted in deaths and injuries.
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Today marks exactly one year since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Plenty of passionate pledges of support towards Ukraine from western capitals, but Kyiv is still very short of what it needs.
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