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.
Read MoreHundreds of people are believed to be dead following a strike on a hospital in Gaza. Palestinian officials blamed ongoing Israeli airstrikesfor the lethal incident, while a spokesperson for Israel said a Palestinian Islamic Jihad group is responsible for a “failed rocket launch” that hit the hospital.
Read MoreIn raids into the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces reportedly recovered bodies of kidnapped Israelis seized by Hamas last weekend. Israel later denied the report. Scores of Gazans on the move amidst an Israeli order. Australian voters defeat a move to grant Aboriginals more rights
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreRussian missile attack on Khmelnytsky overnight. Russia is 99.9% certain to quit a U.N.-brokered deal on the safe wartime passage of Black Sea grain next month because it no longer needs Ukrainian ports to export ammonia, a senior Ukrainian diplomat said.
Read MoreAnother massive overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine. Yet again, a large civilian residential building was targeted - this time in Uman - where five were hospitalized. Nationwide 21/23 cruise missiles were destroyed & 2 drones. A woman & child of three killed in Dnipro, according to the mayor. Sounds of explosions also reported in Kremenchuk and Poltava. In Kyiv’s Obolon district, debris cut off a local power line, and the road was also damaged.
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreUkraine'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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreA Russian strike on a city in the eastern region of Donetsk killed at least three people as Ukrainian forces engaged Russian troops in ferocious battles in several hot spots in the east, where Moscow has been pressing its offensive with increased urgency amid Western pledges of modern tank deliveries for Kyiv.
Read MorePoland appears closer to sending German-built Leopard tanks to Ukraine, with or without the approval of Berlin. Patience in western capitals is wearing thin with German intransigence to assist Ukraine.
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defence minister to impose a 36-hour ceasefire on the Ukrainian front line. However it has been rejected as a cynical move by the Ukrainian leadership. The US and Germany have agreed to send heavy armoured fighting vehicles to Ukraine
Read MoreAir raid sirens sounded in Kyiv on Sunday night as the latest wave of drone and missile strikes from Russia continued. An attack which began shortly before midnight targeted critical infrastructure,
Read MoreA fresh wave of Russian strikes have severely damaged critical infrastructure in the Odesa region. Ukraine launches missile attack on Russian-occupied Melitopol, explosions reported in Donetsk and Crimea
Read MoreUkrainian 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
Read MoreUkrainian 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.
Read MoreA team from the UN nuclear watchdog arrived at a Russian-held nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia. Meanwhile Thursday marked the start of a new academic year for millions of Ukrainian children - but amid fears of rocket attacks, concerns over lack of bomb shelters and a heavily damaged learning infrastructure
Read MoreTrilateral talks Thursday in Lviv between Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations ended with no major takeaways - amid fears that the situation at the Russian occupied nuclear power plant near Zaporyzhzhia is spiraling out of control. Kharkiv comes under heavy Russian missile attack
Read MoreWith a new push from Poland, Russian citizens may soon find it much more difficult to travel to the European Union. A Bellingcat investigation confirms the participants in one of the most heinous Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine
Read MoreGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz opposes the idea of EU-wide entry ban for Russians. A CNN investigation pretty much absolves Ukraine in the bombing of a prison housing its national heroes
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