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© Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. Western countries refused to discuss the establishment of a new European security architecture with Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “The West refused to cooperate with us on establishing a new European security architecture,” Lavrov stressed. However, the minister pointed out […]

Guys, where’s the main protest?” asks 28-year-old Ksenia, who’s taken to the street to protest for the first time in her life. It’s 9 pm in Moscow and the police have already broken up the bulk of the protests. Since anyone with anti-war signs is arrested immediately, protesters casually stroll along until a large enough crowd […]

As Russian missiles rain down on their homes, many people of Kyiv have moved permanently into the safe shelter of the metro. After being thrown back from the capital numerous times over the past week, Russian forces have decided to revert to their doctrinal terror tactics of pounding the city with bombs, rockets and artillery […]

Several more civilian casualties have been reported on Wednesday morning in Russian bombardments of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv. It comes as Vladimir Putin’s forces escalate their attacks, focusing on the main cities in an attempt to break Ukrainian resistance. Moscow claims to have taken control of Kherson in the south, the first large city to […]

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Tuesday that if the Russian leader didn’t “pay a price” for the invasion, the aggression wouldn’t stop with one country. Biden used his first State of the Union address to highlight the resolve of a reinvigorated Western alliance that has worked to rearm the Ukrainian military and adopt tough sanctions, […]

Tears streamed down Margaryta Chornobryvets’s face as she entered a refugee hostel in Krakow, Poland. The 16-year-old from Kyiv, was now safe from the bombs and rockets unleashed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine on Feb. 24 but desperate at being separated from her family. “My mother brought me to Krakow, got a little […]

Estimates about the number of people who may have to flee Ukraine in the coming days and weeks have drawn comparisons with the refugee crisis of 2015, when hundreds of thousands fled war-torn Syria and headed across the Mediterranean into Europe. At the time, disunity in Europe over the crisis led to former Chancellor Angela […]

MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Russia considers the presence of US nuclear weapons in a number of European states unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in his video address to the Geneva conference on disarmament, adding that the US nuclear weapons must have long been returned back to American soil. © Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS “It […]

More than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine in the five days since Russian troops invaded. The UN’s refugee agency announced the devastating number this morning as talks between diplomats begin at the Belarus border. The latest and still growing count said 281,000 people have entered Poland, while more than 84,500 have gone to Hungary. Ukrainians have been […]

Russia’s political and economic isolation deepened on Monday as its forces met stiff resistance in Ukraine’s capital and other cities in the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two. President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert on Sunday in the face of a barrage of Western-led reprisals for his […]