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The decision to launch a special operation in Ukraine was a hard one to make, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with women flight crews of Russian airlines. Putin was asked why this special operation began and whether it could have been avoided. He also explained his vision of how it should end. “Very […]

Some 20,000 international volunteers have traveled to Ukraine to join in the fight against invading Russian forces, a top Ukrainian official said Sunday. “This number is around 20,000 now. They come from many European countries mostly,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told US broadcaster CNN. An Ukrainian soldier keeps position sitting on a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun […]

Russia should give a real chance to negotiations that would lead to positive results on the ground, Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın said Saturday. Kalın told reporters after an event in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul that clashes on the ground should not continue to cause further destruction amid Russia’s war on Ukrain Ukrainian soldiers drive on […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the existence of Ukrainian statehood as his army’s invasion of the neighbor faces stiff resistance and his economy is increasingly asphyxiated by sanctions. In the latest efforts to freeze Moscow out of the world economy, U.S.-based card payment giants Visa and Mastercard announced they will suspend operations in Russia, […]

“You never know”: like many other Swedes on the island of Gotland, Emelie Cedeskog has stocked up on canned foods and checked where the nearest air raid shelter is. In a country long marked by a “fear of Russians”, many of the island’s 60,000 residents have had concerns reignited by tensions between the West and […]

A man rides a bicycle in front of residential buildings in Chernihiv, a regional capital in northern Ukraine, damaged by Russian fire, on March 3, 2022. Fourty-seven people died when Russian forces hit Chernihiv’s residential areas, including a school and high-rise apartment buildings. (AFP/Getty Images) Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he called “a special […]

Thousands of Africans, mostly students, based in Ukraine have been caught up in the war that erupted when Russia sent its troops across the border last week. To date, the conflict has forced nearly 836,000 people to flee abroad, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency, while an estimated one million others have been displaced within Ukraine. […]

Photo combination shows Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. (Foreign Ministry) Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan encouraged Russia to “strengthen dialogue” with Ukraine during a call with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, the Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement […]

Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Commander of the Defense of Kyiv, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky has checked the readiness of fortifications for a meeting with Russian invaders. According to Ukrinform, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported this on Facebook. “Such unity of citizens and defense forces has never been seen before. We are […]