Tag: RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

Zelenskyy: West needs more courage in helping Ukraine fight

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the West of lacking courage as his country fights to stave off Russia’s invading troops, making an exasperated plea for fighter jets and tanks to sustain a defense in a conflict that has ground into a war of attrition. Speaking after U.S. […]

NATO deputy: Putin can’t win his ‘unprovoked, illogical’ war

BUCHAREST, Romania — NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana says that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s month-old “barbaric war” against Ukraine is a war he cannot win. In an interview with The Associated Press, the former Romanian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States added that NATO would be […]

Live updates: Biden to Poland: ‘Your freedom is ours’

WARSAW, Poland — U.S. President Joe Biden has told Poland’s President Andrzej Duda that “your freedom is ours,” echoing of one of Poland’s unofficial mottos. He assured Duda that the U.S. and other NATO allies would come to their aid if Russia should attack. The two gathered Saturday […]

Shelled city in north Ukraine fears becoming ‘next Mariupol’

LVIV, Ukraine — Nights are spent huddling underground from Russian strikes pounding their encircled city into rubble. Daylight hours are devoted to hunting down drinkable water and running the risk of standing in line for the little food available as shells and bombs rain down. This is what […]

Some prominent Russians quit jobs, refuse to support war

NEW YORK — The resignation of a senior Russian government official and his reported move abroad wasn’t the first voluntary departure of a person from a state job since the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine, but it certainly was one of the most striking. Anatoly Chubais, who […]

US, EU announce new partnership to undercut Russian energy

BRUSSELS — The United States and European Union on Friday announced a new partnership to reduce the continent’s reliance on Russian energy, a step top officials characterized as the start of a years-long initiative to further isolate Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden asserted […]

Ukraine says 300 died in theater attack, hunger grips cities

KYIV, Ukraine — About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week that blasted open a Mariupol theater, Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war’s deadliest known attack on civilians yet. In a vain attempt to protect the hundreds of people taking […]

Russia’s military hit by high-ranking losses in Ukraine

Summary Russia has not revised troop casualties from 498 since March 2 Ukraine puts Russian casualties at 15,600 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has displaced nearly 10 mln March 23 (Reuters) – Russia held a funeral service for the deputy commander of its Black Sea Fleet in annexed Crimea […]

Kremlin veteran quits over Ukraine war and leaves Russia

Summary Chubais was Putin’s first Kremlin boss under Yeltsin Biden on first foreign trip since war began Destruction of Mariupol seen in new satellite images LVIV/MYKOLAIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine, March 23 (Reuters) – A veteran aide of President Vladimir Putin has resigned over the Ukraine war and left Russia with […]

NATO: 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops dead in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine — NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of fighting in Ukraine, where the country’s defenders have put up stiffer-than-expected resistance and denied Moscow the lightning victory it hoped for. A senior NATO military official said the […]

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