Drove from one country to another trying to find a place that “feels like home”. Russia invaded Ukraine that day, and the 26-year-old social media and marketing manager immediately made a decision to leave, threw things into her car and set off for the Polish border. But, after two weeks in Poland and a month…
Key moments in the Ukraine conflict which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. – Start of invasion- On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announces the start of a “special military operation” to defend the mainly Russian-speaking separatist “republics” of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, days after having recognised their…
According to the France24 His sentencing came as Moscow pushes on with its military offensive in neighbouring Ukraine and Russian authorities seek to silence remaining government critics. A Moscow court ruled to “leave the sentence without changes” and for it to enter into force immediately, meaning that the leader of Russia’s embattled opposition will be…
A sullen driver takes her Ukrainian post office van past barricaded checkpoints and positions so dangerously exposed to Russian fire that soldiers try to blend into the surrounding forests. He then leaves her parked on a patch of grass for hours on end while she counts out the cash owed to every pensioner and writes…
Accusing Ukrainian forces of committing war crimes and claiming the EU was “ignoring” them, Putin told Macron “the West could help stop these atrocities by putting relevant pressure on the Kyiv authorities, as well as halting the supply of weapons to Ukraine”. Putin also said Kyiv was not being consistent or ready for “serious work”…
They had survived in tunnels below the steel works in the devastated city of Mariupol among holdout Ukrainian troops, having to pick bomb-shattered glass from their food and hope someone would finally get them out of there. It was aboard a caravan of white city buses that they made it to the Ukrainian-held city of…
which has been wreaking havoc on Russian tanks in Ukraine, that they are part of a historic battle for democracy. “These weapons touched by the hands, your hands, are in the hands of Ukrainian heroes, making a significant difference,” Biden said at the Lockheed Martin facility in Troy, Alabama, which has produced more than 50,000…
She remembers the date because that is when Russian mortar fire blew a hole through her apartment on a central street in the battered north Ukrainian city of Chernigiv. But Sobistiyanska is taking out her boiling anger for her plight on both the Ukrainians and the Russians in the third month of the war. The…
A contradictory figure, he was best known as an award-winning war reporter covering both Chechen wars for US-funded Radio Free Europe’s Russian-language station. In 2000, he was taken prisoner by Russian forces and handed over to Chechen rebels in a bizarre swap that prompted international condemnation. After Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, however, Babitsky strongly…
Price told journalists he could not discuss the specifics of the final remaining issues in the 11 month-old negotiations over restoring the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which aims at preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “We are not in the practice of negotiating in public,” Price said, amid reports that a deal…
