Ukraine

Ukraine's armed forces have released a video of apparent explosions at an ammunition depot in occupied Crimea. Blasts can be heard in the night-time clip lasting 55 seconds, which includes the flash of explosions from the "sabotage" which purportedly took place on Friday night. "Around ten in the evening on…

Huge explosion in Russian port cityA Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has injured at least nine people. A residential building and offices belonging to Ukraine's security services (SBU) were hit in the attack, which happened on Friday evening at 8.30pm local time (5.30pm BST). Two teenagers,…

By Gerry Doyle, Han Huang and Jackie Gu (Reuters) - As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country’s military and civilians face a deadly problem: land mines, potentially hundreds of thousands of them, scattered across roads, buried…

A defense official confirmed to the Military Times on Thursday that US soldiers in Ukraine would be earning hazard pay, per a new authorization from the Pentagon. This despite the fact that President Joe Biden, Commander-in-chief of the US Armed Forces, has said that there would be no troops fighting…

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YUROVE, Ukraine — Fears have grown along Ukraine’s northern border about the potential for new military attacks since Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries relocated to Belarus after last month’s short-lived mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership, with Ukraine — and even Poland — tightening security and stepping up defenses. Belarus served as…

Global fertiliser suppliers have made incredibly high profits in 2022/23 on the back of price spikes attributed to the Russia-Ukraine war. The profits of the world's top nine producers trebled in 2022 from two years previously. The margins and impacts have been even greater on fertiliser supplies to African farmers.…

Trevor Reed at a hearing in Moscow in March 2020. AFP/FileA former US Marine, Trevor Reed, who had previously spent more than two years in a Russian prison, has been injured while fighting in Ukraine, the State Department confirmed.  Reed was released from Moscow's custody in April 2022 as part…

1/2 International nuclear energy watchdog inspectors said mines laid between two perimeter fences at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine did not present a danger to the plant's nuclear safety and security systems. File Photo courtesyof Russian Emergencies Ministry/EPA-EFE July 25 (UPI) -- International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have…

For a time, in the aftermath of the global pandemic of COVID-19 and coupled with the Russia-Ukraine war, the world faced possibly the worst economic outlook for a generation. However, their effect on the Ghanaian economy is so pervasive, contrary to the evidence in the context of African nations and…