Posts tagged russia’s war in ukraine
WORLD BRIEFING: March 19, 2024

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

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 8, 2024

Another massive Russian missile & rocket attack early this morning in Ukraine: 59 different types of missiles and drones aimed to points nationwide. Israel says its forces carried out new attacks against Hamas militants in central and southern Gaza, as well as airstrikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

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WORLD BRIEFING: October 24, 2023

More aid enters Gaza as Israel pounds the Palestinian enclave. Russia aims at Ukraine power infrastructure ahead of winter. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: May 8, 2023

Russia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyiv's anticipated offensive. The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the evacuation of residents near the nuclear plant indicated the possibility of heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces around the plant.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: January 30, 2023

Ukrainian tank crews have arrived in Britain to begin training for their continued fight against Russia, the British Defense Ministry said, just days after Britain and other NATO countries pledged more than 130 tanks to Ukraine. Ukraine's military said on January 29 that its forces had repelled an attack in the area of Blahodatne in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, while Russia's Vagner private military group said it had taken control of the village.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: January 26, 2023

The U.S. is to send 31 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine - along with parts, equipment and training, President Joe Biden has said. The decision follows Germany’s lead to send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and to not stand in way of other countries sending their own German-built tanks. The ECHR agrees to hear a case against Russia in the 2014 downing of Flight Mh17.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 30, 2022

Russia 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

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 16, 2022

A fresh wave of Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine this morning, striking several major cities and interrupting critical services. EU has agreed on a fresh round of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine after complaints from hawkish Eastern European leaders that some countries were trying to water them down. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: December 5, 2022

Several regions of Ukraine reported interruptionsMonday to power and water supplies amid freezing temperatures after about 70 Russian missiles were fired at targets across the country in a new round of Moscow strikes. Drone explosions were reported deep inside Russia at a military air base

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WAR IN UKRAINE: November 18, 2022

Ten million Ukrainians are enduring emergency power cuts after more Russian missile attacks, just as temperatures fall to freezing and below, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Of the four men charged in the downing of MH17, one was acquitted; the three others are unlikely to show-up to serve their life sentences.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: November 17, 2022

Once again, Ukraine was hit with a massive missile attack from Russia. A Dutch court delivers its verdict on four suspects connected with the shoot down of MH17

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WAR IN UKRAINE: November 16, 2022

Confusion remains over how a missile that appeared to be of Russian origin landed in Poland Tuesday, killing two people. One theory is that Ukrainian air defense systems created the explosion. Meanwhile, recovery efforts are underway from a massive Russian missile strike on Ukraine Tuesday, with some 100 missiles involved.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 27, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on September 25 that there was fierce fighting taking place on the front lines but that Kyiv was seeing "positive results." The number of people detained in Russia for protesting against the country's partial military mobilization has risen to nearly 2,500 people across the country.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 23, 2022

The Ukrainian military has said it is "smoothly but confidently" gaining ground against Russian forces in "one of the most important logistical arteries" of Ukraine's partially occupied Luhansk region. More than 1,300 people have been detained in Russia after rare anti-war protests were held around the country in the wake of President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a partial military mobilization.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 21, 2022

Four areas of Ukraine under Moscow's control have announced plans for urgent so-called referendums on joining Russia, which would pave the way for Russian annexation. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes the OSCE’s former Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in two continents. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 20, 2022

On several occasions today during live coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, her background role in providing guidance to western leaders and policy makers on the war in Ukraine was mentioned. Russia has reportedly fired dangerously close to another nuclear power plant in Ukraine 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 19, 2022

Ukrainian officials accused Russian forces of a growing list of war crimes in liberated parts of the Kharkiv region, as they continued to exhume bodies from a mass burial site discovered in Izyum and said they had found what they described as torture chambers in the area. Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden issues a stern warning to Vladimir Putin against the use of tactical nuclear or biological weapons 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 18, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called upon on the international community to condemn the Russian "terrorist state” following the discovery of a mass burial site and evidence of torture in Izyum. It now appears that U.S. President Joe Biden is coming closer to make the declaration - making Russia part of a club that includes Iran, North Korea and Cuba. 

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 11, 2022

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has confirmed that its forces have entered the strategically important town of Kupyansk in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region. President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Ukraine had now liberated 2,000 sq km from Russia since beginning a renewed counter-offensive earlier this month.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: September 7, 2022

Fresh shelling has knocked out power and water in the town near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in war-torn southeastern Ukraine. Another Moscow-appointed official in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory has been attacked and is now in the hospital in serious condition.

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