Ukraine

Angelina Jolie made an unexpected appearance in Lviv, Ukraine on Saturday, as reported by the BBC. She was spotted in a coffee shop in the western city roughly 40 miles from the Polish border. In a video posted to Facebook by journalist Mayya Podgorodetskaya, Jolie is seen smiling in a…

An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia's war in Ukraine. Gigantic landfills in India's capital New Delhi have caught fire in…

At least 20 civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks, where the last Ukrainian troops are holed up in the Black Sea port of Mariupol. Earlier, a Russian missile strike had hit Odesa airport, rendering its runway unusable. Follow FRANCE 24's liveblog for all the latest. All times are in Paris…

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted Thursday to reinstate a World War II weapons sharing program to support Ukraine against the continuing Russian invasion. Republican South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson introduced the Ukrainian Democracy Defense Lend Lease Act in February. It is modeled after the Lend Lease Program, which was…

Posted April 28, 2022 at 4:48pm The Biden administration is weighing options for directing tens of billions of dollars in frozen Russian government assets in the United States to the rebuilding of Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Thursday. To do so, however, will likely take an act…

Vladimir Putin will launch an all-out nuclear war on the West rather than accept defeat in Ukraine, Russia's chief propagandists have declared, in just the latest chilling threat coming from Moscow. Margarita Simonyan, editor of state broadcaster RT and one of the Kremlin's highest-profile mouthpieces, declared on TV last night…

World PTI | Boston, April 28 | Updated on: Apr 28, 2022 Nearly half the destructive attacks were against critical infrastructure, many times simultaneous to physical attacks Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organisations in Ukraine and produced “a chaotic information environment,” Microsoft says in…

DJI has temporarily suspended sales and all business activities in both Russia and Ukraine "in light of current hostilities," the dronemaker has announced. As Reuters reports, that makes it the first major Chinese company to halt sales in Russia after the country started its invasion of Ukraine in February. Unlike…

The Save Ukraine Network has just completed the first phase of the Ukraine Chastushka contest.   According to group co-founder Svetlana Shevchenko, "Chastushkas are short poems, popular in both Russia and Ukraine,  consisting of four lines in trochaic tetrameter, which often have a satirical subject matter.    They correspond roughly to…

Ukrainian soldiers stand on an armoured personnel carrier (APC), not far from the front-line with Russian troops, in Izyum district, Kharkiv region on April 18, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anatolii Stepanov / AFPThe push by the United States to send artillery to Ukraine aims to degrade Russian…