Tag: volodymyr zelenskiy
Sunak says will be with Kyiv in ‘darkest hours’; pledges $3.2billion in aid
KYIV: British PM Rishi Sunak visited wartime Kyiv on Friday to sign a new security agreement and announce an increase in military funding for Ukraine…
Ukraine: Ukraine mourns ace fighter pilot ‘Juice’ killed in collision
KYIV: Hundreds of Ukrainians attended a church ceremony on Tuesday to pay their last respects to a celebrated fighter pilot with the callsign Juice who…
Grain Infrastructure: Pope urges Russian ‘brothers’ to restore Black Sea grain deal
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday called on Russia to reverse its decision to abandon the Black Sea grain deal, under which it had allowed…
South Korea President Yoon makes surprise visit to Ukraine
SEOUL: South Korea‘s President Yoon Suk Yeol was visiting Ukraine for the first time on Saturday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Yonhap news agency…
Ukraine: Russian envoy rejects idea of Swiss peace summit on Ukraine
GENEVA: Russia’s ambassador to Switzerland said Moscow could not accept any Swiss-hosted peace summit on Ukraine after it joined European Union sanctions against his country,…
Rebel Russian mercenaries return to base under deal ending advance on Moscow
ROSTOV-ON-DON/VORONEZH, Russia: Heavily armed Russian mercenaries pulled out of the southern Russian city of Rostov overnight after halting their advance on Moscow under a deal…
Russia: Russia attacks Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in overnight air strikes
KYIV: Russia attacked military and infrastructure targets across Ukraine early on Tuesday, including in the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, Ukrainian officials…
Ukraine: Ukraine prepares ‘biggest blow’ as it claims recapture of eight villages from Russia
KYIV:Ukraine said on Monday it had driven Russian forces out of an eighth village in its two-week-old counteroffensive and a defence official vowed Kyiv‘s “biggest…
Putin: Putin says tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed in Belarus in July
MOSCOW: Russia will start deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus after special storage facilities are made ready on July 7-8, President Vladimir Putin said on…
Russia says US-built F-16s could ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons if sent to Ukraine
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that US-built F-16 fighter jets can ‘accommodate’ nuclear weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them will…