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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged for a sensible and toned down approach to ongoing tensions with Russia and the Western bloc’s warnings that an invasion is imminent, calling for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to have a clearer understanding of Moscow’s demands. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the annual Munich Security […]

Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin have agreed to “intensify” diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis over Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Sunday following a phone call between the two presidents. The Elysée Palace, which said Macron subsequently spoke to Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy, had previously described the conversation with Putin as a last-minute diplomatic effort to […]

Ukraine could give up its decades-old pledge to be a non-nuclear nation and reverse the decision it took to give up its atomic weapons after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned. Military hardware takes part in the joint military drills between Belarus and Russia, at the military training ground in […]

The latest attack came as indirect parliamentary elections are held in the Horn of Africa country [Feisal Omar/Reuters] At least 13 people have been killed in central Somalia on Saturday after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a restaurant packed with local officials and politicians. The dead were mostly civilians and 20 other people were […]

Boris Johnson has warned the world can not allow the ‘destruction of a democratic state’ amid signs Russia is on the verge of invading Ukraine. The prime minister warned ‘we are now staring at a generation of bloodshed and misery’ if war breaks out. Speaking at a defence summit in Germany, he reiterated a threat to close London’s financial […]

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Saturday that he had sent a letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offering more talks to defuse a possible conflict in Ukraine but warned Moscow of the dangers of making impossible security demands. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference at the end of a two-day meeting of […]

Full-scale war in eastern Ukraine can break out at any moment, with an attack by forces loyal to the government in Kiev, the head of the breakaway, unrecognised ‘Donetsk People’s Republic,’  Denis Pushilin, told Russian media on Friday evening. File photo: Ukrainian tanks near Debaltsevo, February 19, 2015 © Brendan Hoffman / Getty Images “Kiev […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs an extended meeting of the Board of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry via teleconference call, in Moscow, Russia. © Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Ukraine must begin talks with the two breakaway regions in the country’s war-torn east to put an end to fierce […]

An image grab taken from Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV on Sept. 29, 2020 shows Hassan Nasrallah, delivering a televised speech. (AFP) Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday the group has been producing drones and has the capability of turning thousands of rockets to precision missiles. “We have been producing drones in Lebanon for a […]