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Russian invaders 'frustrated' by stiff Ukraine resistance: Pentagon
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
The United States and Western allies are still able to deliver arms into the country to bolster the Ukraine military, and Washington plans to send more in the c...
World's largest plane destroyed by Russian strikes in Ukraine
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
"Russian invaders destroyed the flagship of the Ukrainian aviation, the AN-225" at the Antonov airport in Gostomel near Kyiv, the group said in a statement. The...
Russia's war on Ukraine: Day four situation on the ground
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
Here AFP describes the situation, based on statements from both sides as well as assessments by Western defence and intelligence officials. - Ground situation -...
France to deliver more military equipment to Ukraine: presidency
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
The new sanctions would include "national measures to freeze the financial assets of Russian figures", it said in a statement, after President Emmanuel Macron c...
Russia could attack Poland, Finland, Baltics: Polish PM
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
Putin will "want to develop his aggressive policy, his invasion", Mateusz Morawiecki told French daily Ouest-France. "He started in Georgia, now Ukraine," he ad...
Putin and the West: From curiosity to cataclysm
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
The attack has created an indelible rupture between Russia and the European Union and United States as long as Putin stays in power, with Moscow now likely to t...
France to send 500 troops to Romania
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
"NATO has decided to reinforce its presence to send a very clear sign of strategic solidarity, to position forces in Romania," Thierry Burkhard told Radio Franc...
Russia vetoes UN resolution deploring 'aggression' in Ukraine
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
Eleven of the council's 15 members voted for the motion, which was co-written by the United States and Albania. China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstai...
Germany to send weapons to Ukraine in policy reversal
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point in history. It threatens our entire post-war order," said Chancellor Olaf Scholz as his government approv...
Too little too late? West finally coughs up arms for Ukraine
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
With Ukrainian forces putting up real resistance against the Russian advance, Western officials say there is a genuine interest in ensuring President Vladimir P...
Ukrainian and Russian forces fight over capital Kyiv
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
Russian leader Vladimir Putin unleashed a full-scale invasion on Thursday that has killed dozens of people, forced more than 50,000 to flee Ukraine in just 48 h...
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine attacks its history, reveals his imperial instincts
Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)
Putin has been softening up the world for its latest foreign policy adventure for some years now. "Kiev is the mother of Russian cities," he wrote in March 2014...
Biden joins emergency NATO session on Russia's Ukraine invasion
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
The US president, who has spent weeks trying to lead a united trans-Atlantic response to Russia's aggression against its neighbor, was meeting "with fellow NATO...
China's Xi speaks to Putin, calls for 'negotiation' with Ukraine
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
In a readout of the call on state broadcaster CCTV, Xi pointed out that the "situation in eastern Ukraine has undergone rapid changes... (and) China supports Ru...
Federated States of Micronesia breaks ties with Russia over Ukraine war
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
Leaders of the Pacific archipelago -- which has a population of just over 100,000 people -- said it was acting in solidarity with Ukraine, which has already sus...
France 'accelerating' troop deployment to Romania
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
Talking after an emergency summit with European Union leaders, Macron said he was "accelerating" the dispatch of forces. It is part of a broader push by NATO al...
Putin calls on Ukraine army to remove leadership in Kyiv
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
Putin also accused "Ukrainian nationalists" of deploying heavy weapons in residential areas of major cities to provoke the Russian military, a claim that could ...
NATO deploys response force for first time as new Europe 'iron curtain' looms
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
"It is still a fluid situation. What we have seen is that the Ukrainian forces are fighting bravely and are actually able to inflict damage on the invading Russ...
'Multi-pronged' Russian assault aims to encircle Ukraine forces
Feb 24, 2022 (AFP)
The assault, after more than 150,000 Russian troops massed on Ukraine's borders in recent weeks, has been accompanied by a massive wave of air and missile strik...
NATO condemns Russia's 'reckless and unprovoked' Ukraine attack
Feb 24, 2022 (AFP)
The ambassadors of the 30-nation alliance were to hold an emergency meeting early Thursday to discuss the Russian attack, with Stoltenberg expected to give a pr...
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