Ukraine

It must be tough, being a dictator, when your diktats are ignored, thwarted and scorned. Vladimir Putin is a sad case in point. He ordered the glorious reintegration of Ukraine into his imaginary Russian empire. What he got was an existential crisis that he couldn’t control. China’s president, Xi Jinping,…

Published: 12:00pm, 13 Aug, 2023 Updated: 12:00pm, 13 Aug, 2023 Read More

Aug 3, 2023 Dragana Trifkovic   The Netherlands – 03.08.23 — The news about the Ukrainian elite hiding away from the military conflict is spread by Russian propagandists again...Read More

Updated August 11, 2023 at 4:55 p.m. EDT|Published August 11, 2023 at 3:37 a.m. EDT The U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine said a Russian strike hit a hotel used by aid workers in Zaporizhzhia on Aug. 10. (Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)The U.S. Department of Treasury imposed sanctions Friday on four men who…

KYIV, Ukraine — A first group of six Ukrainian pilots is not expected to complete training on the U.S.-made F-16 before next summer, senior Ukrainian government and military officials said, following a series of delays in the West’s instruction program for the sophisticated fighter jet. The timeline reflects the disconnect…

Once again, a grain crisis hit the world as Russia refused to extend the Ukrainian grain agreement because the involved parties did not adhere to the quotas of poor and needy countries. European countries seem to have obtained more than 80% of the total quantities of grain that Russia sold…

pentagon —  The United States is providing up to $200 million in additional military aid for Ukraine, two U.S. officials told VOA, in a package that is expected to include more rockets for HIMARS and more munitions for Patriot surface-to-air missile defense systems. The officials, who spoke to VOA on…

ANKARA — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the revival of a vital Black Sea grain deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets depends on Western capitals' fulfilling their responsibilities. In televised remarks in Ankara, Erdogan said his country’s contacts with relevant parties to revive the…

Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov attends a press conference to present a new schoolbook for high school students on general world history and Russian history, mentioning the the country's ongoing military action in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea in 2014, in Moscow on August 7, 2023. AFPMoscow has sparked…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attending a coordination meeting on the state border protection in the northwestern regions of Ukraine in the western city of Lviv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — AFP/FileAn informant who had been sharing intelligence with Russia for a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has…