Tag: conflict

Pro-Moscow officials say Ukraine killed four in Kherson evacuations

Moscow, Russia | AFP | Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region Friday said Kyiv forces killed four people when they shelled the Antonivskiy bridge over the Dnipro river used for evacuations. “Four people were killed,” pro-Moscow official Kirill Stremousov said on Telegram. “The city of Kherson, like a fortress, is preparing for its defence.” A Ukrainian military spokeswoman Nataliya Gumenyuk denied Kyiv’s forces had killed civilians. “We do not hit critical infrastructure. We do not […]

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Philippines to get US military helicopters after scrapping Russia deal

  Manila, Philippines | AFP | The Philippines will acquire heavy-lift military helicopters from the United States, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said Thursday, after scrapping a deal to buy similar aircraft from Russia. The government of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte had signed a deal worth $216 million for 16 Mi-17 helicopters, but backed out in the months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow. Earlier Thursday, local media had […]

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Palestinian killed in clashes with Israeli army in West Bank: Palestinian ministry

  Jerusalem, Undefined | AFP | A Palestinian was killed overnight in clashes with the Israeli army during an operation in the flashpoint occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry said Friday. Salah al-Buraiki, 19, died after being shot in the neck, the ministry said in a statement, adding that three other Palestinians were wounded in the clashes. The Israeli army said that during the Jenin operation, “suspects hurled explosive devices and […]

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Israel ‘will not’ supply weapons to Ukraine: defence minister

Israel will not send weapons to Ukraine, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said Wednesday, two days after Russia warned that an Israeli move to bolster Kyiv’s forces would severely damage relations. “Our policy vis-a-vis Ukraine will not change — we will continue to support and stand with the West, we will not provide weapon systems,” Gantz told a briefing of European Union ambassadors, according to a statement from his office. Israel has walked a delicate diplomatic […]

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UPDATE: President Putin declares martial law in Ukraine regions Russia says annexed

Moscow, Russia | AFP | Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday introduced martial law in Ukraine’s Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. “I signed a decree to introduce martial law in these four subjects of the Russian Federation,” Putin said during a televised National Security Council meeting. The Kremlin then published a decree saying martial law will be introduced from early Thursday. Putin’s announcement came as Ukrainian forces advanced […]

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HRW calls for sanctions on Ethiopia to protect civilians

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | Human Rights Watch called Wednesday for targeted sanctions and an arms embargo against Ethiopia to help protect civilians as the country’s brutal war in Tigray intensifies. Addis Ababa on Tuesday said it had captured three towns in the northern region, where fighting between pro-government forces and rebels has raged since August after a truce collapsed. International concern is growing for those caught in the crossfire, with the UN describing […]

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‘About 50’ Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff in Russian detention

Kiew, Ukraine | AFP | The head of Ukraine’s state nuclear agency Energoatom said Wednesday that about 50 employees of the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine were held in Russian captivity. “More than 150 people from the staff of the plant were captured” since the start of the Russian invasion in late February, Petro Kotin told AFP, adding that “some of them were later released, but there are those whose fate is […]

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Pro-Kremlin administration evacuating from Ukraine’s Kherson city: official

  Moscow, Russia | AFP | The head of the Russian-controlled region of Kherson in southern Ukraine said Wednesday that pro-Kremlin officials were evacuating from the region’s main city but vowed Moscow’s forces would keep fighting. “The entire administration is already moving today,” to the left bank of the Dnieper river, the region’s Moscow-installed head Vladimir Saldo, said on Russian state television. He said the measure, along with the organised movement of civilians from the […]

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North Korea fires artillery into buffer area, Seoul cries foul

  Seoul, South Korea | AFP | South Korea on Wednesday criticised North Korea for unleashing a fresh artillery barrage into waters off its east and west coasts, targeting a maritime “buffer zone” set up in 2018 to reduce tensions. Pyongyang has dramatically ramped up missile launches and military exercises in recent weeks, as Seoul and Washington say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is close to conducting what would be his country’s seventh nuclear […]

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North Korea fires missile, flies fighter jets near border

Seoul, South Korea | AFP | North Korea on Friday fired a short-range ballistic missile, conducted an artillery barrage, and flew fighter jets close to the South’s border in another show of force that the US has warned could culminate in a nuclear test. Pyongyang has dramatically ramped up missile launches and military exercises in recent weeks, which it now describes as “tactical nuke” drills, as Seoul and Washington say Kim Jong Un is close […]

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France’s TotalEnergies faces legal case for allegedly fuelling Russian bombers

Paris, France | AFP | Two associations have lodged a complaint against French energy giant TotalEnergies for “complicity in war crimes” for allegedly helping fuel Russian planes that have bombed Ukraine, a source close to the case said Friday. The France-based Darwin Climax Coalition and Ukrainian group Razom We Stand handed the file to the national anti-terrorist prosecutor, who investigates war crime allegations, on Thursday. Le Monde newspaper in August said TotalEnergies held a stake […]

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Russian army will be ‘annihilated’ if Pres. Putin nukes Ukraine: EU Policy Chief Josep Borrell

  Brussels, Belgium | AFP | EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned Moscow on Thursday that its forces would be “annihilated” by the West’s military response if President Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine. “Putin is saying he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford bluffing, and it has to be clear that the people supporting Ukraine and the European Union and the Member States, and the United States and NATO are not […]

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