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KYIV, Ukraine -- The Kremlin's spokesman said Monday that U.N. aid workers who want to visit areas ravaged by the recent Kakhovka dam collapse in southern Ukraine can’t go there because fighting in the war makes it unsafe. The United Nations rebuked Moscow on Sunday for allegedly denying aid workers…

Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't actually antisemitic, former Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky said in an interview on Monday morning. According to Sharansky, who spent nine years in Soviet prisons as a refusnik, Putin “isn’t an antisemite, on the contrary.” He went on to add that in reality, “there are…

UPDATED from original 12:58 p.m. story with more details and full winners list: In the Rearview, Maciek Hamela’s documentary about Ukrainians fleeing war in their homeland, won the Grand Jury Award for International Competition tonight at the 30th Sheffield DocFest. . The film premiered in May at the Millennium Docs Against…

Russia and Ukraine are suffering high numbers of military casualties as Ukraine fights to dislodge the Kremlin’s forces from occupied areas in the early stages of its counteroffensive, British officials said Sunday. Russian losses are probably at their highest level since the peak of the battle for Bakhmut in March,…

The Biden administration has agreed to provide Ukraine with depleted uranium shells to equip M1A1 Abrams tanks that the U.S. is sending there. Britain has already delivered tanks to Ukraine equipped with depleted-uranium shells. DU munitions, developed in the 1970s, are not nuclear weapons and do not produce a nuclear…

BRUSSELS - NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Friday welcomed a peace mission by African leaders to Ukraine, but warned only a "just" solution that treats Russia as the aggressor would work. "I welcome the fact that African leaders have visited Kyiv and I think it is important to know that there…

Jack Posobiec of Human Events spoke with retired Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer about President Joe Biden’s ulterior motive in Ukraine on Thursday, suggesting that the president’s motive is not to aid the Ukrainian people but to bolster his political chances of re-election in 2024.  Posobiec said: “I think that Biden…

Ukrainian artillery fires towards the frontline during heavy fighting amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Bakhmut, Ukraine, April 13, 2023. Reuters Japan is in talks with the US to supply artillery shells to augment inventories for Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to the report,…

Spending caps set by the debt limit bill have empowered critics of U.S. aid to Ukraine, threatening the bipartisan coalition that has kept military assistance flowing to Kyiv. The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front line South of Bakhmut on Friday.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New…

Updated June 14, 2023 at 9:44 AM Published June 14, 2023 at 7:22 AM KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for tougher sanctions to halt the flow of components used in Russian missiles, saying it was cheaper to stop their transfer than to improve anti-aircraft systems against their deployment.…