President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed a NATO summit on Thursday to send more weaponry to Ukraine, and Western allies retaliated with more penalties against Russia, promises of military aid, and talk of kicking Moscow out of the G20. As hostilities raged across Ukraine, with television pictures showing a big Russian vesselContinue Reading
As Russian forces focus their fire on cities and captive populations in Ukraine’s almost month-long incursion, President Joe Biden has added a visit to Poland to his trip to Europe this week for urgent consultations with NATO and European partners. Biden will go to Brussels first, then to Poland toContinue Reading
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russia’s shelling of a school sheltering hundreds of people an act of “horror,” and urged direct negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as the only way to stop the war. Authorities reported people were still “under the debris” at the school in the besiegedContinue Reading
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin granted the go-ahead for up to 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East to fight alongside Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine, doubling down on an invasion that the West claims is losing steam. The action, which comes little over two weeks after Putin launched the assault,Continue Reading
US intelligence officials described Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “angry,” isolated leader seeking global power, dissatisfied with how his Ukraine invasion has not gone as planned, and issuing provocative nuclear threats to the West. According to CIA Director William Burns, Russia’s long-serving ruler has been “stewing in a combustible blendContinue Reading
In the early hours of Wednesday, a special Boeing-777 plane from Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) landed in Islamabad from Poland, bringing 230 Pakistanis who had been stranded in Ukraine due to the Russia-Ukraine situation. Polish Ambassador Maciej Pisarski, his wife Justyna Maria Pisarski, Foreign Secretary Sohail Mehmood, and PIA officialsContinue Reading
In response to a letter addressed by European Union envoys in Pakistan requesting that Islamabad denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Imran Khan reminded the EU where they were when India violated international law in Kashmir. PM Imran addressed a public protest in the Vehari District’s Tehsil Mailsi againstContinue Reading
LONDON(AFP)- The UK government sanctioned billionaire businessman Alisher Usmanov and former deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov on Thursday as retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The couple, who are worth a total of $19 billion (£14 billion) and have “major interests in the UK and close relations to the Kremlin,”Continue Reading
MOSCOW (AFP) – As Moscow’s invasion of the pro-Western country reached its seventh day, the Russian army took possession of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Wednesday. In televised statements, defence ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov stated, “Russian divisions of the armed forces have assumed full control of the regionalContinue Reading
KYIV (AFP) – Russian airborne forces arrived in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s eastern city, on Wednesday, according to the Ukrainian army, with immediate confrontations. “Russian airborne forces landed in Kharkiv and targeted a local hospital,” the army claimed in a Telegram post. “A battle between the invaders and the Ukrainians is occurring.”Continue Reading
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