Following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his nation would post tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Ukraine is requesting an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday to combat “nuclear blackmail.” For the most recent information regarding the conflict in Ukraine, check out our live blog. In an interview with the Russian official…
At least six people were murdered and numerous areas of the war-torn country lost electricity on Thursday as a result of the heaviest Russian attacks on Ukraine in weeks. While the battle for control of the strategically important city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine continued on, Kyiv’s forces shot down nearly half of the missiles…
Russian representatives told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that Ukraine intended to use a “dirty bomb” in the conflict area, but Western diplomats said Moscow offered no proof for the assertion. The Security Council convened in secret to consider Moscow’s assertion, which was made public for the first time on Sunday, that it anticipated…
According to UN investigators, the fighting in Ukraine has resulted in war crimes, including Russian airstrikes of civilian areas, countless executions, torture, and horrifying sexual assault. Erik Mose, the leader of the investigating team, informed the UN Human Rights Council that “based on the information gathered by the Commission, it has decided that war crimes…
The ruling body of European football declared in a statement that “all Russian teams are currently suspended after the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee on 28 February 2022 which has further been upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 15 July 2022.” “Russia is so excluded from the UEFA European Football Championship…
The daughter of hard-line Russian thinker Alexander Dugin was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, according to Russia’s FSB security agencies on Monday. Dugin, a vociferous supporter of the Kremlin’s operation in Ukraine and an outspoken ultranationalist scholar, is believed to have been the attack’s intended victim. According to a…
Russia’s foreign minister told top generals on Wednesday that the country supports the Myanmar junta’s efforts to “stabilize” the nation and organize elections next year, according to Russian official media. Since the putsch last year, Southeast Asia has been in upheaval, with the junta facing accusations of war crimes while attempting to crush internal opposition….
As Ukraine stated it had requested access to its soldiers being held by Russian forces, Russian energy giant Gazprom on Saturday cut off gas supplies to Latvia. The phone call came a day after a bombing in Olenivka, a region under the control of the Kremlin, that killed numerous people while detaining Ukrainian POWs. Dmytro…
Suspended gas supplies to Latvia following tensions between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine and sweeping European and US sanctions against Russia. The declaration came a day after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of bombing a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian-held territory, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying…
Ukraine bombed a bridge this week that is vital to Russian soldiers occupying the town of Kherson, Ukrainian forces shelled the Antonovsky bridge overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday with US-supplied rockets, targeting a main crossing linking Kherson to the Dnipro River’s southern bank and the rest of the region, which is now almost entirely controlled…
