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    Russia’s Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov paid an unusual visit to the frontline in Ukraine amid the Russian military’s slow progress to capture eastern territories, The New York Times reported Sunday. Valery Gerasimov (L), Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, and Russia’s Defence Minister […]

Somalia’s Al-Shabaab group attacked an African Union (AU) mission troop camp in the Shabelle region in the centre of the country, a local elder and the group said on Tuesday, and another resident said three civilians died in the crossfire. Somali men near their destroyed homes following an overnight attack in Mogadishu on February 16, […]

srael lay into Russia on Monday over Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s “dangerous” and “unforgivable” comments about Nazism and anti-Semitism, including that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. Israel summoned the Russian ambassador in response to the remarks that Tel Aviv says blame Jews for their own murder in the Holocaust. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, […]

WASINGTON, D.C. — Russia is planning imminently to “annex” the two eastern regions of Ukraine battered by its invasion after failing to overthrow the Kyiv government, a senior US official said Monday. A Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher BM-21 “Grad” shells Russian troops’ position, near Lugansk, in the Donbas region, on April 10, 2022. (Photo by […]

Ukrainian authorities were hoping Monday, May 2, to evacuate more civilians from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, as Russia’s offensive in the east of Ukraine continued with “active and heavy” fighting. Kyiv said more than 100 civilians were evacuated over the weekend from the sprawling Azovstal plant, the last holdout of Ukrainian forces […]

Servicemen of the U.S. National Guard have begun training the Ukrainian military in the use of artillery mounts, which have already begun to enter service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Training will take place in Germany. The corresponding statement was made by the press secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense John Kirby, CNN […]

The runway of the airport of the southwestern port city of Odessa has been rendered useless after a Russian missile strike on Saturday, the Ukrainian military said. Russia has sporadically targetted Odessa, a Black Sea port, and a week ago, Ukraine said at least eight people were killed in a strike on the city. A […]

The following is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s nightly address to the nation as it appears in the English language on the presidential website: Today we marked the Border Guard Day. It is clear that there can be no celebrations during the war. But it is necessary to support Ukrainian men and women who defend the […]

Germany filed a case against Italy with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) late on Friday over a long-running dispute regarding World War II reparations. It’s the second time that the case has landed at the UN’s top court. In 2012, the ICJ previously ruled that Germany couldn’t be sued in foreign courts by victims of Nazi war […]