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.
Read MoreChinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Johannesburg for a state visit and for the BRICS Summit. Air space around Moscow was closed once again due to the presence of Ukrainian drones
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 MoreThe Ukraine Recovery Conference enters its second and final day, with several billions of dollars of pledges targeting the rehabilitation of the country. Russia says a main bridge in Crimea has been hit.
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 MoreRussian forces used nearly a dozen S-300 missiles, targeting Zaporyzhzhia and two villages in the region early on Oct. 3, Ukraine says. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says his three sons, aged 14,15 and 16, will soon travel to the Ukraine front line to fight with Russian forces.
Read MoreAs G7 leaders meet in Germany pledging to continue to back Ukraine, the chances of Russian President Putin heeding their calls for restraint are highly unlikely.
Read MoreAs Russia appears to consolidate its control over the whole of Luhansk Oblast, President Zelensky says he urgently needs “tent times” the weaponry and manpower in order to advance. More evidence of forced mass deportations of Ukrainians to Russia.
Read MoreA day after the so-called Victory Day in Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin left western military planners guessing as to his future intentions for Ukraine, the port city of Odesa is hit by further missile strikes.
Read MoreAs the situation in Mariupol becomes increasingly dire, Ukraine positions to repel a renewed Russian assault on the Donbas
Read MoreA full on Russian assault in the Donbas region has commenced.
Read MoreRussia bombards cities across Ukraine, including Lviv - where for the first time civilian infrastructure was targeted,
Read MoreThe Kyiv region was hit for the second day-in-a-row by Russian missile strikes. Meanwhile, the situation in the besieged city of Mariupol is becoming more desperate as the Russian side demands Ukrainian forces in the city to surrender. Today is Palm Sunday on the Julian calendar
Read MoreAs the war in Ukraine enters its 50th day, I argue on my latest opinion piece that no area of Ukraine will be safe until Kyiv can protect all of its skies from long-range Russian missiles. But it cannot achieve this alone.
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