Ukraine

Published November 23, 2022 at 1:45 AM KYIV - Ukraine has recaptured almost the entire southern Mykolaiv region on an isolated peninsula off the Black Sea where fighting is ongoing, the local governor said on Tuesday. Kyiv’s troops have been pushing out Russian forces from the southern Mykolaiv and Kherson…

MOSCOW: Explosions killed three people on Tuesday in two villages in Russia's Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. A woman was killed in what Gladkov said was Ukrainian shelling in the village of Shebekino, around seven kilometres (four miles) from the Ukrainian border in the south of…

ODESA, Ukraine —  Beneath a chill, low-lying fog, the Black Sea has gone winter-gray. The craggy coast of Crimea, illegally seized from Ukraine by Russia nearly nine years ago, lies far from this southern stretch of seashore — yet, to many here, the strategic peninsula suddenly seems tantalizingly close. Ukraine’s recapture…

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Temperatures are predicted to plummet as low as -20C in Ukraine this winter By George Wright in London and Catherine Byaruhanga in Kyiv BBC News The lives of millions will be under threat in Ukraine this winter, the World Health Organization has said. Half…

Raising oil production would partially reverse the group’s contested decision to cut supplies in OctoberUpdated Nov. 21, 2022 7:10 pm ET OPEC oil producers are discussing an output increase, the group’s delegates said, a move that could help heal a rift between Saudi Arabia and the Biden administration and keep…

Russian strikes against Ukraine are an expression of "holy hatred," a Russian politician has said on state television. In a clip shared on Twitter by Julia Davis, the creator of the Russian Media Monitor, State Duma member Boris Chernyshov is seen suggesting that those who support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…

Xave Gregorio - Philstar.com November 19, 2022 | 7:08pm President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit. Release / Office of the Press Secretary MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday called the war between Russia and Ukraine “unacceptable” and reiterated his call for both countries…

There’s a weird synchronicity between the new German adaptation of WWI novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” and the ongoing nightmare in Ukraine. Credit: Stijn Swinnen / Unsplash Here’s a weird case of synchronicity. (Or are all synchronicities strange by definition? Anyway:) German filmmakers have finally made an adaptation…

BADHOEVENDORP -  A Dutch court convicted three men and acquitted one on Thursday over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 above Ukraine in 2014, as tensions soar over Russia's invasion eight years later. Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko "are found guilty" of murder and…

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court on Thursday convicted two Russians and a pro-Moscow Ukrainian separatist in absentia of the murders of 298 people who died in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine. One Russian was acquitted because of a lack of evidence. Presiding Judge…