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-European leaders head for Kyiv as US pledges more weapons – The leaders of France, Germany and Italy were on a train Thursday morning, June 16, bound for Kyiv, a day after the United States announced $1 billion worth of new arms for embattled Ukrainian forces French President Emmanuel Macron (2L) arrives at Kyiv train […]

Believed to be extinct for more than a century, a rare species of giant tortoise is in fact still alive. Scientists assumed that the chelonoidis phantasticus had died out more than a century ago. The species is better known as the ‘fantastic giant tortoise’ and is native to the Galápagos Fernandina island. A turtle is […]

Mikhail Kasyanov was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first prime minister but he never imagined, even in his worst nightmares, that his former boss would launch a full-scale war on Ukraine. Students pose outside a damaged building for a high school graduation photoshoot, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, June 5, 2022. (Instagram […]

Western countries must send Ukraine more heavy weaponry as it battles Russia’s advance in the east of the country, NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. “Yes, Ukraine should have more heavy weapons,” Stoltenberg told a press conference in The Hague after meeting the leaders of seven European NATO allies ahead of a key […]

In early June, the independent polling agency the Levada Center published survey data showing that three quarters of Russians believe the “special military operation” in Ukraine is “progressing successfully.” Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In early June, the independent polling agency the Levada Center published survey data showing that three quarters of Russians believe the […]

Russian shelling left hundreds of civilians stranded with just one way out in the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, said Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai, while Moscow claimed its missiles destroyed a large number of weapons and military equipment in the eastern Donbass region, including some sent by the U.S. and Europe Ukrainian forces fire a BM-21 […]

Ukrainian authorities say Russian forces have destroyed the last bridge into the eastern city of Severodonetsk, cutting off an escape route for civilians trapped in a scorched earth battle for a key city in Ukraine’s industrial heartland, the Donbas. Maksym Katerin stands in the yard of his badly damaged house after his mother and his […]

As the United Nations tries to broker a path for grain from Ukraine and temper worries about a global food crisis, hundreds of mines laid along the Black Sea present a practical nightmare that will take months to resolve even after any agreement. Grain is loaded on a truck at the Mlybor flour mill facility […]

The war has retreated from Kharkiv, but fighting is underway not far away – about 15-20 kilometers from the city. It’s morning. A journalist and photographer from NV are drinking coffee in a Kharkiv coffee shop. It’s quiet and sunny outside. Even though shelling cane be heard in Kharkiv almost every night, the city is […]

The United Nations has urged all parties involved in growing tension between Kinshasa and Kigali to “immediately cease all forms of violence” in border regions between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. A Congolese army tank heads towards the front lines on May 25, 2022 as DRC soldiers fought M23 rebels and Kinshasa appeared to […]