Tag Archives: Ukraine

WASHINGTON | TASS | Andrey Yermak, a former chief of staff of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, announced several hours later after his resignation that he was ready to head to the battlefront, the New York Post reported. “I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals… I am an honest and …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | The U.S.-proposed 28-point “peace plan” was unveiled last week. Following its release, representatives from the United States, Ukraine and several European countries met in Geneva on Sunday to discuss the plan. Through discussions, the revised plan has been cut down to 19 points but not been …

MOSCOW | TASS | Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the Other Ukraine movement and former head of Ukraine’s banned Opposition Platform – For Life party, has offered a pointed critique of US President Donald Trump, suggesting that he could learn valuable lessons from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in managing both domestic …

MOSCOW | Xinhua) |  Russian air defense shot down 164 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday. According to the ministry, 39 drones were destroyed over the Black Sea and 32 over southern Russia’s Krasnodar region. The drone attacks caused damage to port infrastructure and an apartment building …

The costs and consequences of isolation by the very continent that globalized the world  THE LAST WORD |  Andrew M. Mwenda |  I have written before that Europe is facing an existential crisis and a creeping irrelevance. It has moved from a strategic dependence on the American security umbrella to a …

MOSCOW | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian armed forces currently maintain full strategic initiative in the area of the special military operation, Kremlin said in a press release Tuesday evening. Putin made the remarks while meeting with the leaders of the Ministry of Defense, the General …

OSLO | Xinhua | Denmark will prohibit all civilian drone flights nationwide from Monday to Friday to safeguard a European Union (EU) leaders’ meeting in Copenhagen and reduce the burden on police amid a surge in suspicious drone sightings, the Danish government said Sunday. The temporary ban will run from …

VIENNA | Xinhua | A drone was downed and detonated near the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant overnight amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, posing constant dangers to nuclear safety, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement on Thursday. According to the agency, its on-site team reported that …

KIEV | Xinhua | Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv, Ukrainian authorities said. The Ukrainian Prosecutor General Office said that an unidentified gunman opened fire and killed the 54-year-old politician on the spot. Police are searching for the suspect, …

WASHINGTON, the United States | Xinhua | The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of air delivered munitions and related equipment to Ukraine for an estimated cost of 825 million U.S. dollars. The principal contractors will be Zone 5 Technologies and CoAspire, and the U.S. government is not aware …