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Ukrainian soldiers repulsed a Russian attack in the capital, the military said early Saturday, only hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Moscow would attempt to take Kyiv before dawn. Russian leader Vladimir Putin unleashed a full-scale invasion on Thursday that has killed dozens of people, forced more than 50,000 to flee Ukraine in just […]

   Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov.Mikhail Metzel / TASS Russian billionaires lost $39 billion in a single day after Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, according to calculations by Bloomberg. That doubled their losses since the start of the year following a $32-billion rout ahead of the invasion, as President Vladimir Putin geared up for his strike on Russia’s […]

Kyiv was under “horrific” fire on Friday as Russian troops edged closer to the Ukrainian capital on their second day of an invasion described as a “brutal act of war” by the West. “Horrific Russian rocket strikes on Kyiv,” Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister said just before 05:00 CET on Friday. “The last time our […]

   Oleg Kharseev / Kommersant The Russian military said its warplane crashed near the Ukrainian border while transporting military equipment late Thursday, killing the entire crew. The incident took place on the first day of President Vladimir Putin’s deadly invasion into Ukraine, which he announced days after recognizing the independence of eastern Ukraine’s breakaway republics. “A Russian […]

Ukraine’s armed forces are heavily outnumbered and outgunned by Russia’s, but as Russia begans a large-scale invasion on Thursday, military experts say they would be capable of mounting significant resistance and inflicting heavy casualties. Service members of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces take part in tactical drills at a training ground in an unknown location […]

As some local residents began fleeing Kiev early Thursday morning and rushing west while air raid sirens sounded in the Ukrainian capital, fears of war have grown palpably, catching global media attention and sending the world’s markets tumbling, shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in the Donbas region.     MBlack smoke […]

The West spent eight years ignoring the “sea of blood” in Donbass while arming Ukraine, and now claims Moscow is the aggressor when it stepped in to end the conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT on Thursday. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, February 24, 2022 © RT Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a […]

Ukrainian soldiers ride in a military vehicle in Mariupol, Ukraine [Sergei Grits/AP Photo] Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a military operation in Ukraine, with explosions heard across the country and Ukraine’s foreign minister warning a “full-scale invasion” was under way. What do we know about the invasion so far? KEEP READING Russia-Ukraine crisis: Zelenskyy’s address in […]

World leaders on Thursday condemned Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, vowed to both tighten sanctions and hold Moscow accountable. One leader described the offensive as an “an unjustified barbarian act.” Ukrainian tanks move into the city, after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a military operation in eastern Ukraine, in Mariupol, Feb. 24, 2022. (Reuters Photo) […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he ordered his country’s military to conduct a special operation in the Donbass region after the leaders of the breakaway republics asked Moscow for military assistance in response to what they claim is an increase in “Ukrainian aggression.” Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a national address in which he announcea […]