Browsing: Ukraine

Euronews says Hundreds of Lithuanians have chipped in together to buy an advanced military drone for Ukraine in its war against Russia in a show of solidarity with a fellow former Soviet Union country.

Euronews says the yachts and lavish houses of Russian oligarchs that have been seized under EU sanctions could be confiscated to finance Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction.

The Independent says Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday.

Euronews says behind the destroyed walls of the cities of Ukraine lie hundreds of tales of torture, mass rapes, and murder of civilians.

Aljazeera says Hungary’s government will assume emergency powers in order to be able to respond more quickly to challenges created by the war in neighbouring Ukraine.

The Metro says thousands of Russians bravely demonstrated their opposition to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine at a concert in St Petersburg.

A captured Russian soldier has been handed a whole life sentence for killing a civilian in Ukraine – the first war crime trial since Russia’s invasion of the country.

France24 says Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday.

Euronews says Twitter has introduced a new policy to crack down on online misinformation about the war in Ukraine and other humanitarian crises.

The Metro says George W Bush accidentally called the Iraq invasion ‘brutal’ and ‘unjustified’ in a very unfortunate ‘Freudian slip’.

Arab News says the UN warned that a growing global food crisis could last years if it goes unchecked, as the World Bank announced $12B to mitigate its “devastating effects.”

Alarming concerns over Russian abuses against Mariupol defenders. Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters had held out for months under relentless bombardment. The US has gathered intelligence…

Daily Express says SIX Russian tanks have been pictured submerged in muddy water after a “failed river crossing” in eastern Ukraine.

Daily Mirror says the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes in Ukraine has pleaded guilty.

Euronews says the first war crimes trial since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, against a Russian soldier accused of killing an unarmed civilian, gets underway in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Arab News says Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it was working to evacuate all remaining troops from their last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol.

The Ukrainian military’s general staff has said that fighters evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol defenders are heroes of our time. In a…

Daily Express says VLADIMIR PUTIN has been left red-faced again as a rocket launch that blasted a satellite into orbit has reportedly failed, with the probe tipped to fall back down to Earth.

Daily Express says RUSSIAN frontline soldiers were left stunned after their commander sent them six litres of vodka instead of the reinforcements they had requested.

Euronews says Ukraine’s victory in the Eurovision Song Contest boosted the morale of those still in the war-torn country.

The Metro says Vladimir Putin has suspended his top commander as he looks for people to blame for Russia’s failure in Ukraine, it is believed.

BBC News says Boris Johnson will visit Sweden and Finland to discuss the war in Ukraine, amid debate within both nations about whether to join the Nato alliance.

A CHECHEN unit commander was killed on camera as he was reporting live from a battle in Ukraine.

UKRAINIAN forces have destroyed Russian invaders and their equipment, new footage shows, as the defending military continue to repel Vladimir Putin’s army.

There are fears Vladimir Putin will use today’s massive annual May 9 Russia Victory Day parade, in which Russia celebrates its historic defeat of the Nazis, to declare all-out war on Ukraine and mobilise citizens to sign up to the bloodshed