The UN warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine and the rest of the Strip at risk as well. Vladimir Putin said he is open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to propose a ceasefire during this summer's Paris Olympics
Read MoreA surprise cabinet shuffle in the UK that brings an unelected former PM to lead the Foreign Office. Gaza Strip’s hospitals “must be protected,” President Biden said. Turkey joins other countries in mass deportations of Afghan refugees.
Read MoreIn an almost unprecedented move, Israel moves to bar the UN’s top humanitarian official from the country, and threatens to deny visas to other UN staff as well. Gridlock in Washngton could come to an end soon with the election of a new House speaker, who also happens to be a Trump supporter.
Read MoreDeath and destruction in Sumy from a Russian drone attack. The EU is pondering concessions to Russia to keep the Black Sea grain deal alive
Read MoreUkrainian forces claim to have retaken two villages in the Donetsk region as a days-old counteroffensive to push Russian forces out of the country gathers steam. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, said he will not obey a new Russian Defense Ministry decree obliging all volunteer formations to sign a contract directly with the ministry in his latest spat with the nation’s military leadership.
Read MoreEvacuations from flooded parts of the Kherson region continue after a major dam was breached yesterday. Ukrainian officials have warned that some 42,000 people are at risk from flooding, with water levels expected to peak in Kherson today. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that hundreds of thousands of people have been left without drinking water
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreThe US has denied Russian claims it "masterminded" an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin. Volodymyr Zelensky told The Hague the Russian president should be sentenced for his "criminal actions.” Ukraine's president also called for the establishment of a war tribunal to hold Russia to account for alleged war crimes
Read MoreRussia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, President Vladimir Putin has said. The Ukrainian military says that Russian attacks are focusing on Bakhmut and a handful of other eastern areas
Read MoreThere are signs that Russia is preparing an escalation of the war in Ukraine in February, the secretary of Ukraine's Security Council said. Russia has dispatched one of his country’s most modern warships armed with advanced hypersonic missiles on a long voyage through the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and into the Indian Ocean
Read MoreRussia staged another attack on Kyiv with Iranian-built drones. All five were shot down. Air defenses also destroyed 10 attack drones targeting Dnipropetrovsk & Zaporizhzhia regions. Almost half-a-million people in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa and surrounding region remain without power
Read MoreAt least 6,884 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since Russia’s invasion of the country began in February, says UN. An Australian helping to defend Ukraine has been killed.
Read MoreMoscow says three military personnel were killed early on December 26 by debris from a downed Ukrainian drone, which was shot down and fell over a military base in Russia's southwestern Saratov region. Russian forces bombarded scores of towns in Ukraine on Christmas Day as Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was open to negotiations
Read MoreThree Ukrainian emergency services workers have been killed when a mine exploded while they were de-mining parts of the southern Kherson region. The Christmas Eve Russian raid on Kherson has killed at least 10 people, wounded 58 and left bloodied corpses on the road, authorities say.
Read MorePitched battles continue in the east, where Moscow's offensive has centered on the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka in Donetsk, Ukraine's General Staff reports, as a regional official reported that Russians are leveling a famous theater to the ground in the southern city of Mariupol.
Read MoreA wave of Russian drones attacked Kyiv overnight and into the early hours of Monday morning, triggering air raid sirens twice. In all, Ukraine’s air defence managed to shoot down 30 out of 35 incoming drones.
Read MoreHeavy shelling and artillery fire were reported in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region overnight. Russia will continue targeting Ukraine’s power supply, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said
Read MoreStrikes on Russian targets continue as Ukraine recovers from a fresh wave of Russian missile attacks. The deficit in the energy system remains at the level of 19% of the projected consumption.
Read MoreShelling by Russian forces struck several areas in eastern and southern Ukraine overnight as authorities continued to work to restore power, water, and heating after weeks of Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and as temperatures plunge with the beginning of winter.
Read MoreUkrainian repair crews continue to scramble to return power to millions of homes following devastating Russian missile attacks this week on infrastructure facilities, while Kyiv said near-constant Russian bombing was affecting a handful of population centers in the east. In a rare public spat involving Ukrainian leaders, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticized the mayor of Kyiv for doing what he said was a poor job setting up emergency shelters to help those without power and heat after Russian attacks.
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