Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced that the Akhmat group of Chechen special forces were waging an offensive near the town of Mariinka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Akhmat commander Apti Alaudinov said.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he spoke to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about Ukraine’s peace plan. “We discussed specific ways to implement the Ukrainian Peace Formula and consolidate.
The EU’s top official on Wednesday argued against a ceasefire along the current battle lines in Ukraine, saying it would be “inherently unstable”. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European.
Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles in a rare daylight attack on Monday. The move came hours after a night-time barrage when it struck fuel depots and five aircraft at a military site.
Two people died after a Russian missile attack hit a clinic in Dnipro and wounded 23 others, the regional governor said. Serhiy Lysak said on Telegram that a 69-year-old man had been.
According to the Ukrainian military, during the missile attack in the Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, 24 high-rise buildings were damaged. In the Pavlograd district, 80 private residential buildings, nine schools and five shops.
France condemned “in the strongest terms the renewed strikes carried out last night by Russia on Ukrainian territory, Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. The statement.
Ukraine called for global powers to pressure Russia as the future of the Black Sea grain deal, which will soon expire, became unclear. Earlier, UN chief Antonio Guterres proposed a “way forward.
Russia deployed its latest tank, the T-14 Armata, to Ukraine, state media reported. The tank represented a major departure from Russian armoured vehicle designs in recent decades. Russia hoped that the tank.
It emerged that Ukraine’s new Nato-provided Leopard 2 tanks would be serviced and repaired at a complex in Poland. Defence ministers from Ukraine, Poland and Germany agreed to the plan during talks.
Ukraine’s military reported “bloody battles unprecedented in recent decades” in the eastern city of Bakhmut as the death toll from a Russian attack on residential buildings in nearby Sloviansk climbed to 11..
Ottawa: Canada imposed new sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and pledged fresh military support for Kyiv after PM Justin Trudeau met Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Toronto. As the two.
It emerged that Ukraine would resume exporting electricity after a six-month gap following repairs carried out after months of repeated Russian attacks. Energy minister Herman Halushchenko signed an executive order allowing electricity.
It emerged that secret documents that provide details of US and NATO plans to help prepare Ukraine for a spring offensive against Russia spilled onto social media platforms. The leak looked like.
Ukrainian presidential official, Mykhailo Podolyak, said that leaked Pentagon documents contained “fictitious information” to sow doubts about Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive. His statement came after the United States’ documents leaked on Twitter and.
Representatives of several Western countries walked out of a United Nations meeting in protest as Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights Maria Lvova-Belova was speaking. They accused her of spreading “disinformation” about the.
Einar Tangen, a senior fellow of Taihe Institute, said that China wanted to start a dialogue between Ukraine and Russia before meeting French President Emmanuel Macron and EU chief Ursula von der.
Finance minister Sergiy Marchenko stated that Ukraine had received the first $2.7bn tranche under the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility program. “Grateful to our partners for supporting Ukraine on the.
A member of the parliamentary budget committee reported that Germany was planning to increase its military aid spending for Ukraine. About 12 billion euros ($12.9bn) more in spending is due to be.
Ukraine’s top ground forces commander said that Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut would launch a counterassault “very soon”. On Telegram, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi said Russia’s Wagner mercenaries “are losing considerable strength and are.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida traveled to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday. The visit followed a trip to Moscow by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Japan’s Foreign Ministry.
A €2 billion ($2.1 billion) deal was agreed to by EU ministers on Monday to restock their arsenals and jointly purchase ammunition for Ukraine. Defense and foreign ministers backed an initiative aimed.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said that a strike destroyed Russian “Kalibr” cruise missiles that were being transported by train in the town of Dzhankoi, in Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukrainian authorities did not directly.
The US authorized another round of military aid for Ukraine valued at $350m, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says. “This military assistance package includes more ammunition for US-provided HIMARS [mobile rocket.
Russian forces had become “partially exhausted” in some parts of Bakhmut, Yurii Syrotiuk, a Ukrainian soldier, stated. “Last week, the enemy was furiously attacking, and the attacks were maximum. The enemy was.
Slovakia on Friday became the second of Ukraine’s allies to provide MIG-29 fighter jets which Kyiv believes are crucial to repel Russia’s year-long invasion. Prime Minister Eduard Heger said that Slovakia would.
Israel said on Thursday that it would offer Ukraine early warning systems to alert the public about incoming missiles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was willing to give “defensive assistance”.
According to British military intelligence, Russian artillery ammunition shortages probably worsened to the extent that “punitive shell-rationing” was taking place in many areas of Ukraine’s front line. The Ministry of Defence said.
It emerged that the Biden administration would allow Ukrainians who entered the US at the Mexico border last year to renew their humanitarian status. The US Department of Homeland Security stated that.
An agriculture ministry official stated that Ukraine saw no need to limit wheat exports for the July 2023-June 2024 season because the winter harvest looked to be larger than expected. Ukraine was.
