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Russia strikes Ukraine military target near Polish border

Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)

Another nine people were also killed in a strike on the southern city of Mykolaiv, the regional governor said, while the capital Kyiv braced for possible encirc...

Unease and stoicism on Finland's Russian border

Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)

In Finland, Russia's assault on Ukraine has stirred up some painful associations with the 1939 Winter War, when Red Army troops attacked the Nordic country acro...

Strike in Donbas wounds 30, Russia accused of chemical attacks

Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)

International law prohibits the use of white phosphorus shells in heavily populated civilian areas but allows them in open spaces to be used as cover for troops...

US sets high-level talks with China Monday over Russia war

Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Yang Jiechi, the Chinese Communist Party's chief diplomat, "will discuss ongoing efforts to manage the competition b...

Ukraine readies for 'relentless defence' of Kyiv

Mar 13, 2022 (AFP)

In a video address posted on social media late Saturday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky was adamant that the Russians would not take Ukraine. "The Russian i...

NATO trains to help its own, as Ukraine war rumbles

Mar 12, 2022 (AFP)

Some 30,000 troops, 200 aircraft and 50 vessels from 27 nations will take part in the Cold Response 2022 exercise, the largest exercise involving NATO troops th...

US authorizes $200 mn in additional military aid to Ukraine

Mar 12, 2022 (AFP)

Washington already authorized $350 million of military equipment on February 26 -- the largest such package in US history. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk...

Russia says it could target Western arms supplies to Ukraine

Mar 12, 2022 (AFP)

"We warned the United States that the orchestrated pumping of weapons from a number of countries is not just a dangerous move, it is a move that turns these con...

UK pushes against Russia in northern European summit

Mar 12, 2022 (AFP)

"Exercise Cold Response" will see more than 30,000 troops from 27 nations training in sub-zero temperatures from Monday. In a statement Saturday, Downing Street...

Ukraine conflict must not spark NATO-Russia war: Stoltenberg to AFP

Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)

NATO's rejection of Ukrainian calls to provide air cover against Russian missiles and warplanes has drawn strong criticism from Kyiv, which accused the alliance...

Home for disabled near Kharkiv hit by Russian strikes: official

Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)

"The enemy today hit a specialised establishment for disabled people near Oskil," regional official Oleg Sinegubov wrote on Telegram. There were 330 people in t...

Putin weighing response to NATO troop movement in eastern Europe

Mar 11, 2022 (AFP)

"As for the strengthening of our western borders because of the actions adopted by NATO countries... this needs to be considered separately, I ask you to prepar...

Battleground Ukraine: Day 15 of Russia's invasion

Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)

The capital remains under Ukrainian control but is increasingly at risk of being surrounded, with many observers believing Russia is still aiming to capture the...

Russia's Lavrov slams 'dangerous' arms deliveries to Ukraine

Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)

"We see how dangerously our Western colleagues, including in the European Union, are acting now, which, in violation of all their so-called principles and value...

Turkey's Erdogan stresses Ukraine war mediation with Biden

Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)

Ankara has close ties with Moscow and Kyiv and hosted a landmark meeting between Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Russia's Sergei Lavrov in the sout...

AWOL UK soldiers in Ukraine risk escalating crisis: minister

Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)

"It is illegal for a British service person to... go absent without leave in the first place. But to go absent without leave in order to fight in a foreign war ...

Finland's president to call Putin on Friday

Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)

"Despite everything, it is still considered important to try and maintain contact with Russia," president Sauli Niinisto told a press conference. Both France's ...

US intel paints Putin as aggrieved, angry over Ukraine war

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

The long-standing president in Moscow has been "stewing in a combustible combination of grievance and ambition for many years," CIA Director William Burns told ...

'Brothers forever': many in Serbia back Russia amid global outcry

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

"This had to be done," Vezmar told AFP, while wearing a shirt emblazoned with a portrait of Putin wearing aviators and armed with a rifle. "Evil reached Russian...

Make membership easier, Kosovo PM tells NATO, EU

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

"It is shocking," Kurti said during an interview this week in Kosovo's capital Pristina. "It's hard to believe what you're seeing -- but no one can pretend to b...