WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the European Union are piling new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week in an Arctic penal colony. The U.S. Treasury Department plans Friday to impose…
The body of a man found near Alicante is believed to be Maksim Kuzminov, who flew a Russian army helicopter on his escape across the front lines with Ukraine last year. Source link
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have taken complete control of the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told the Kremlin that Russian forces were now working to clear the final pockets of resistance at the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant, officials said in a statement. Videos…
MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned allies Saturday that an “artificial deficit” of arms for his country risks giving Russia breathing space, highlighting the need for artillery and long-range weapons after his military chief said he was withdrawing troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka. Zelenskyy spoke to the Munich Security Conference, an…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine Sunday in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage, officials said, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued the reshuffle of his war cabinet as the war enters its third year. In a statement, the Ukrainian air force said it had shot down 40 of the Iranian-made Shahed drones…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Ukraine’s top general on Thursday and told him it’s time for someone new to lead the army in what amounts to a major shake-up of Ukraine’s war strategy. In a post on X, Zelenskyy said he thanked Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi for his two years of…
HELSINKI (AP) — Former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb won the first round of Finland’s presidential election Sunday and will face runner-up ex-Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month. The vote largely centered on the Nordic nation’s new role as a NATO front-line country with Russia, and the security situation in Europe, particularly Russia’s…
As the war approaches its two-year mark, Ukrainians are pleading with their allies to provide them with more funding to enable them to fight back against Russia, following a failed counteroffensive last year. Those calls are competing for attention in the headlines with Israel’s war in Gaza, which Kyiv fears could work to Russian President…
A military transport plane that Russia said was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed Wednesday in a Russian region near Ukraine. All those aboard were killed, according to Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov of the Belgorod region, where the plane went down. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash. Gladkov didn’t specify how many people…
LONDON (AP) — An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine — a rare Asiatic black bear — arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon. The 12-year-old Yampil was named for a village in the Donetsk region where he was one of the…