Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive, killed hundreds

Reuters 06/05/2023

MOSCOW — Russia said on Monday its forces had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive at five points along the front in the southern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops. It was not immediately…

Ukraine shelling kills two in Belgorod as hundreds of children evacuated–governor

Reuters 06/04/2023

MOSCOW — Shelling and strikes by Ukrainian forces on Russia’s Belgorod region killed two people on Saturday as hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “The children of Shebekino are very…

Russian ‘spy’ whale surfaces in Sweden

Agence France Presse 05/31/2023

STOCKHOLM — A harness-wearing beluga whale that turned up in Norway in 2019, sparking speculation it was a spy trained by the Russian Navy, has appeared off Sweden’s coast, an organization following him said on Monday. First…

Russia unleashes largest drone attack on Ukrainian capital, crowds mark Kyiv Day

05/29/2023

KYIV—Russia unleashed waves of air strikes on Kyiv overnight in what officials said was the largest drone attack of the city but crowds poured into the streets later on Sunday to celebrate the anniversary of the Ukrainian…

Ukraine says Russia eases Bakhmut attacks, Kyiv talks up counteroffensive

Reuters 05/28/2023

KYIV — Russian troops have temporarily eased attacks in and around the besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to regroup and strengthen their capabilities, a senior Kyiv official said Saturday, May 27. Separately, senior Ukrainian officials indicated…

Russia says supplying F-16 jets to Ukraine would carry ‘colossal’ risks for West – TASS

Reuters 05/21/2023

MOSCOW — Western countries will run “colossal risks” if they supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying on Saturday, May 20. Grushko was responding to a…

Russia says its troops have fully captured Ukrainian city of Bakhmut

Reuters 05/21/2023

Russia claimed on Saturday, May 20, to have fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which if true would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war. The assault on…

Russia says Ukraine drone attack caused major Crimea fuel depot fire

Reuters 04/30/2023

A Ukrainian drone strike set ablaze a Russian fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol early on Saturday, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky in the latest attack on the Russia-occupied…

Russia kills at least nine in new wave of air strikes on Ukraine

Reuters 04/28/2023

UMAN, Ukraine — Russian forces pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles as people slept on Friday, killing at least nine people in their first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months. The early-morning attacks, the latest in a…

Any attempt to arrest Putin would be declaration of war on Russia, ally says

Reuters 03/23/2023

MOSCOW — Any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Kremlin chief would amount to a declaration of war against Russia, his ally Dmitry Medvedev said on…

But will Putin ever be arrested and put on trial?

Agence France Presse, Reuters 03/19/2023

THE HAGUE — The International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken the major step of issuing an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war. But does this mean that the Russian president — accused of the…

Biden says Putin committed war crimes, calls ICC arrest warrant ‘justified’

Reuters 03/18/2023

WASHINGTON  -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has clearly committed war crimes and the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for him was justified. The ICC earlier on Friday…

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