A school and cultural centre had been hit by HIMARS missiles in Donetsk (File) Moscow: A Russian actress has been killed in a Ukrainian attack while performing for Russian troops in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, according to her theatre. The Russian theatre where actress Polina Menshikh, 40, workedRead More →
Ukraine troops are also contending with renewed assaults around Kharkiv in the northeast. (File) Kyiv: Kyiv estimates that Russia has deployed more than 400,000 soldiers in areas it controls in the east and south of Ukraine, Deputy Intelligence Chief Vadym Skibitsky said Saturday. “The Russian Federation has concentrated more thanRead More →
A “guided air bomb” hit the centre in Kupiansk, said Zelensky. (File) Kyiv, Ukraine: Moscow escalated its attacks in Ukraine on Saturday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing a deadly strike on a blood transfusion centre as a “war crime”. A separate strike struck a key factory, both attacks coming justRead More →
Vladimir Putin accused the West of using Ukraine to wage war against Russia Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that what was at stake in Ukraine was Russia’s very existence as a state. Speaking at length to workers at an aviation factory in Buryatia, some 4,400 km (2,750 miles)Read More →
A senior G20 source said negotiations over the communique were difficult Bengaluru: Finance leaders of the world’s biggest economies were entangled in differences on Saturday over the war in Ukraine and on resolving the debt burden of distressed developing nations, participants said. The meeting of finance ministers and central bankRead More →
France, Italy and the US on Friday all promised fresh deliveries of weapons to Ukraine (File) Kyiv: Ukraine fought off a fresh Russian assault on the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, its leaders said Saturday, as it endured a fresh wave of shelling in the disputed Donetsk region. Officials meanwhileRead More →
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on December 30, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday hailed a close relationship that they described asRead More →
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, seen onscreen, via a videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 30, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed on December 30 to deepen their bilateral cooperation againstRead More →
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks as he visits the joint staff of troops involved in Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, at an unknown location, on December 17, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought proposals from his armed forces commanders on how they think Russia’s militaryRead More →
Rescuers work at the site of a building destroyed by a Russian drone attack, as their attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine on December 14, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukrainian authorities said they thwarted a Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region on December 14 as theirRead More →
