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“Sometimes hope returns to me. But sometimes it leaves, and I think that we are all going to die,” says Anastasiia Kiseliova, a 40-year-old mother of three, as she walks through the streets of Mariupol, voice-recording herself on an iPhone. “The city is gone,” she adds, her voice trembling. She bursts into tears seconds later. Russian […]

Boris Johnson has met with Volodymyr Zelensky in person after making an unannounced visit to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. An image shared by the Ukrainian embassy to the UK shows the two leaders sat together at a table next to the caption ‘surprise’ with a winking face emoji. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky […]

The war in Ukraine is now well into its sixth week, and taking on a new dimension with growing evidence of human rights atrocities by Russian troops as they retreated from the Kyiv region and other parts of the north. Despite Moscow’s blanket denials, horrific discoveries of civilian murders and other barbaric acts are coming […]

Yulia Ivkina would have preferred her husband to become a carpenter, not a soldier. But as the coronavirus pandemic dented the Russian labor market and the newlyweds from the western city of Pskov tried for a baby, 18-year-old Igor Ivkin reasoned a short-term contract in the army was the best option to safeguard his family’s […]

Ukrainian service men check for signs of life among casualties lying on the platform following a Russian missile attack of a railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, on April 8, 2022. At least 39 people were killed as thousands were at the station trying to evacuate. (AFP via Getty Images) A Russian strike on a […]

At least 35 people were killed and over 100 were estimated to be wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on Friday as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces regained control of the entire northeast region of […]

A terror suspect accused of murdering Sir David Amess told jurors he decided to kill him over his vote for airstrikes on Syria. The Southend West MP was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex on 15 October 2021. IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES Image caption,Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency […]

A destroyed apartment building in the town of Borodyanka in Kyiv Oblast, seen on April 5, 2022. Russia has dropped bombs on Borodyanka in early March. (Illia Rusachkov) BORODYANKA, Kyiv Oblast — Burned and shattered, high-rise residential buildings in the center of Borodyanka, a town 40 kilometers northwest of Kyiv, hide even more horror underneath. […]

The US rolled out a new wave of financial sanctions on Wednesday against Russia that President Joe Biden said would place a lasting penalty on the country’s economy. The United Kingdom quickly followed suit, and more pain was coming from the European Union as the allies pressed forward with an escalating campaign to tighten the […]

In Summary • Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble earlier said that Francisco Madeira had been declared persona non grata for engaging in “acts that are incompatible with his status”. • In a statement, Roble said that the AU representative had 48 hours to leave the country. Somali president hits back at PM on envoy’s expulsionImage: AFP […]