Browsing: Russian invasion of Ukraine

The chief of the rebel Wagner mercenary force will leave Russia and won’t face charges after calling off his troops’ advance on Saturday, Moscow said, easing Russia’s most serious security crisis in decades.

The United States and its allies held close consultations but publicly stayed on the sidelines Saturday as officials waited to see how the armed revolt by longtime Kremlin insider Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private Wagner army would play out.

Ukraine strikes Chonhar bridge to Crimea, says Russia Russian officials say Ukraine has attacked a bridge that links southern Ukraine…

Putin critic Alexei Navalny facing decades in prison as new trial begins Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, is…

‘The fear of nuclear escalation must be restored. Otherwise humanity is doomed.’

Footage shows thick black smoke billowing from the facility.

The winds of change are blowing through the European Union’s foreign policy – but they may not be enough to cause a storm.

In this week’s Focus, we turn to the tense frontier between Russia and Finland. The rapport between these neighbouring nations has soured significantly in the wake of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine. Historically, their mutual border has been a theatre of confrontation and conflict. Currently, Finland is taking drastic measures by erecting a formidable barbed wire fence along this boundary. According to authorities in Helsinki, the intention behind this undertaking is twofold: ensuring the nation’s protection and enhancing scrutiny over entries from Russia.

Entire villages in southern Ukraine were flooded after the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro river burst on Tuesday. One of the river’s tributaries, the Inhoulets, burst its banks, flooding fields and villages situated more than 50 kilometres north of Kherson. FRANCE 24’s correspondent Gulliver Cragg toured part of the stricken area with the head of the Snihurivka military administration – the wartime equivalent of a mayor.

UK pledges hundreds of new attack drones to Ukraine ahead of Zelensky’s surprise UK visit The UK has announced plans…