Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev’s civil and military administration, said the fire was caused by “falling debris”. “Stay in the shelters until the all clear!” Popko said other debris hit several roads in Dernitsky and Solomensky districts, adding that information on damage and possible casualties was being verified. At 12:45 on Saturday (2145 GMT Friday), […]
EU action ‘inevitable’ Slovakia approved an indefinite halt to imports following Poland’s move, although it maintained transit, while Bulgaria’s agriculture minister also said the country could limit imports, BTA news agency reported. Hungary’s agriculture minister, Istvan Nagy, said a solution was needed beyond the national level, calling EU measures imperative. The Czech Republic also urged […]
Wagner’s chief of staff, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that his forces, which have played a major role in Russian advances to the east, were straining to encircle Bakhmut. “In Bakhmut, the vast majority, more than 80 percent, is now under our control, including the entire administrative center, factories, warehouses, the administration of the city,” he said […]
However, Biden reiterated in an interview with ABC News that he has no plans to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which Zelensky has been asking for for months, saying the US currently does not see a justification for sending the advanced aircraft. sees Biden said, “I’m dismissing it for now.” G7 members Canada and […]
For now, Republican leaders in Congress, who fiercely oppose Biden on most issues, support aid to defend Ukraine, even as they are increasingly calling for Washington to send more powerful weapons. Are. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on a trip to Kiev on Tuesday that momentum in Washington […]
“The price Ukraine has had to pay is extraordinarily high. The sacrifices have been enormous. … We know the days and weeks and years ahead will be difficult.” Outside the cathedral, burnt-out Russian tanks stand as a symbol of the failed assault on Moscow at the beginning of the invasion of the capital, which began […]
“At the enemy’s door, I had to do something, I had to man the defence,” he said. During the night of 29–30 December, Shumshur said, his rooftop unit shot down two drones over Kiev. His team has also passed on the skills they learned to other units. Shumshur wears several badges on his camouflage uniform, […]
Wagner sees Bakhmut catching up to April The capture of Bakhmut would give Russia a stepping stone to advance on two large cities, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, further west to Donetsk. But Ukraine and its allies say recapturing Bakhmut would be a Pyrrhic victory given the previous months and what they claim has been heavy loss […]
Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February last year, many NATO countries had fallen short of meeting the alliance’s ammunition-stockpile targets. The speed of deliveries to Ukraine, where Kiev’s troops are firing 10,000 artillery shells a day, has reduced Western inventories even further. At the same time, a plan is taking shape to […]
Moldovan airspace closed Ukraine’s southwestern neighbor Moldova, which has reported several Russian missile incursions into its airspace in recent months, also reported an unidentified Russian object over its territory. The country closed its airspace for more than an hour on Tuesday after authorities spotted a flying object that “looked like a weather balloon”. Igor Grosu, […]
Danilov said, “He has a need to show something to his people, and a great desire to do something big, as he sees it.” Moscow is now making full use of hundreds of thousands of troops in its first mobilization since World War II, after Russia failed to capture Ukraine’s capital Kyiv last year and […]
Ukraine is set to replace Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov with the head of its military spy agency, a close aide of President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday in a reshuffle at the forefront of Ukraine’s war campaign. David Arakhmia, a senior lawmaker and head of the Servants of the People parliamentary bloc, said Reznikov would […]
Zelensky said, “No one will give Bakhmut. We will fight as long as we can. We consider Bakhmut our fortress.” Air raid sirens sounded throughout Ukraine during the day as Zelensky hosted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel, the 27 EU national leaders. The EU–Ukraine summit was the […]
Asked at a news conference with Zelensky about Kyiv’s membership bid, the commission’s von der Leyen said: “There are no hard deadlines, but there are goals you have to reach.” European Union countries agreed on Friday to a commission proposal to set price caps on Russian oil products from Sunday, in a bid to limit […]
F-16: Biden said no Since winning Western pledges for the tanks after months of lobbying, Kyiv has pressed on with more requests for the weapons, including demands for jet fighters such as the US F-16. Neither side has been able to regain control of the skies over Ukraine. The West has so far refused to […]