UNSC concerned over Russian nukes in Belarus
The UN Security Council was divided Friday as Western nations expressed concern about Moscow’s announcement it will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, but permanent Council member Russia remained defiant.
BSC gets $14.37m compensation for missile-hit Banglar Samriddhi in Ukraine
The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has been paid $14.37 million insurance claim for its damaged vessel Banglar Samriddhi hit by a missile in a Ukrainian port last year immediately after Russian invasion in Ukraine
‘Hybrid war’ with West will last a ‘long time’
The Kremlin said yesterday that Russia’s confrontation with hostile states and what it called a “hybrid war” being waged against it by the West would last a long time.
Assault On Bakhmut: Russia ‘running out of steam’
Ukrainian troops, on the defensive for four months, will launch a long-awaited counterassault “very soon” now that Russia’s huge winter offensive is losing steam without taking Bakhmut, Ukraine’s top ground forces commander said yesterday.
Not ‘impartial’
The United States said Tuesday it does not see China as capable of being an impartial mediator between Moscow and Kyiv over the war in Ukraine.
Defiant Russia opens its own case against ICC
Russia's top investigative body said on Monday it had opened a criminal case against the International Criminal Court prosecutor and judges who issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges.
UNSC concerned over Russian nukes in Belarus
The UN Security Council was divided Friday as Western nations expressed concern about Moscow’s announcement it will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, but permanent Council member Russia remained defiant.
BSC gets $14.37m compensation for missile-hit Banglar Samriddhi in Ukraine
The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has been paid $14.37 million insurance claim for its damaged vessel Banglar Samriddhi hit by a missile in a Ukrainian port last year immediately after Russian invasion in Ukraine
Ukraine ‘will never forgive’ Moscow
President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Ukraine would “never forgive” Moscow for its occupation of Bucha, a year after the town became a symbol of alleged Russian war crimes.
Ukraine war 'madness' threatening humanity: UN
Russia's war in Ukraine has made severe rights violations "shockingly routine", and is distracting humanity from battling existential threats to its survival, the UN rights chief warned today..Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Volker Turk denounced horrific abuses ca
Battle For Bakhmut: Ukraine admits Russian gains
Ukraine acknowledged some Russian gains inside the eastern battlefield city of Bakhmut, while insisting yesterday that it was inflicting greater losses on the Russian attackers than its own forces were taking in defence.
Russia arrests US reporter on spy charges
Russia on Thursday charged an American correspondent for the Wall Street Journal with spying, in a case certain to escalate Moscow's diplomatic feud with Washington over the war in Ukraine and likely to further isolate Russia
Toys and tales helping Ukraine kids process war trauma
In the cellar of a Kyiv kindergarten decorated with bunting and wall paintings of doughnuts and cats, dozens of children are taking shelter during an air raid.
‘Hybrid war’ with West will last a ‘long time’
The Kremlin said yesterday that Russia’s confrontation with hostile states and what it called a “hybrid war” being waged against it by the West would last a long time.
Ukraine shoots down drones over Kyiv
Ukraine yesterday said it had shot down a dozen Russian drones over the capital Kyiv, adding that there had been no casualties as a result of Moscow’s latest aerial barrage.
Avdiivka becoming ‘post-apocalyptic’
Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel yesterday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv seeks to break the back of Russia’s flagging winter offensive before a counterassault of its own.