MOSCOW, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Four people survived and two are unaccounted for after a Russian plane crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport agency Rosaviatsia said Sunday. The Falcon 10 business jet was believed to be carrying six people on a hospital flight from India to Uzbekistan and Russia before communication was lost on Saturday evening. “Of the six people on board the aircraft, tentatively, four are alive. They have various injuries. […]
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Russian police, demonstrators clash in rare protest over jailed activist
MOSCOW, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – Protesters and riot police were injured Wednesday when clashes erupted in a small town in Russia’s central Bashkortostan after an activist was sentenced to four years in prison. Street protests are a rarity in Russia, which has clamped down on dissent since launching its military offensive in Ukraine and has strict anti-demonstration laws. Crowds of men in the town of Baymak fought with riot police in temperatures hovering around […]
Girl injured in Ukraine drone barrage in Russia: governor
Russia said Tuesday that a young girl was injured during an attack by a barrage of drones launched by Kyiv, in the latest aerial assault to target the country’s border regions. Moscow has accused Ukrainian forces of ramping up fatal artillery and drone attacks on Russia’s border regions, some of which have announced voluntary evacuations over the strikes. The defence ministry in Moscow announced it had downed a dozen Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod and […]
Russia to do ‘everything’ to halt Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod
MOSCOW, Jan 9, 2024 (AFP) – Russia on Tuesday said its military would do everything possible to stop the Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod, a border town where hundreds were evacuated after fatal bombardments. The pledge came as Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian forces were dictating the course of fighting on the front line, which has barely shifted in about a year despite fierce fighting. Belgorod has suffered an uptick in fatal shelling attacks in […]
Four dead in Ukraine as Russia evacuates hundreds from major city
By Stanislav DOSHCHITSYN KYIV, Ukraine, Jan 8, 2024 (AFP) – Four people were killed in a “massive” wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine Monday, officials said, as authorities in the Russian border city of Belgorod evacuated hundreds due to Ukrainian shelling. As the war approaches its second anniversary, both Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of causing dozens of civilian casualties in a sharp escalation of attacks. “Overnight on 8 January, 2024, the enemy […]
Japan FM says Tokyo ‘determined’ to support Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine, Jan 7, 2024 (AFP) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa paid a surprise visit to Kyiv Sunday where she said Tokyo was “determined” to keep supporting Ukraine, as the second anniversary of Moscow’s invasion nears. Kamikawa, the first high-level foreign official to visit Kyiv this year, announced new deliveries of defence equipment and discussed Tokyo’s plans to host a February conference to promote Ukraine’s economic reconstruction. “Japan is determined to support Ukraine so […]
Russia offers to relocate border city residents after shelling
By Victoria LUKOVENKO KYIV, Ukraine, Jan 5, 2024 (AFP) – Russian officials in the southern border city of Belgorod offered to evacuate worried residents on Friday, an unprecedented announcement that follows waves of fatal Ukrainian attacks. The Kremlin has tried to maintain a semblance of normalcy on the home front, but the recent strikes on Belgorod have brought the Ukraine conflict closer to home for Russians. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov’s assurance that scared civilians can relocate […]
UN access at Ukraine nuclear plant curbed for safety: Russia
MOSCOW, Jan 5, 2024 (AFP) – Russia confirmed Friday it had blocked the UN’s nuclear watchdog from accessing parts of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, but said it was for safety reasons. Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been on the ground monitoring the plant since September 2022, six months after it was captured by Moscow’s forces. Responding to an IAEA statement saying their team had been blocked from reactor halls, Renat Karchaa, […]
Russia used N.Korean missiles for Ukraine attacks: US
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, Jan 4, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea has provided Russia with ballistic missiles and missile launchers that were used in recent attacks on Ukraine in a major escalation of support for Moscow, the White House said Thursday. Russia is also looking to obtain missiles from its ally Iran as it runs short of arms nearly two years into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it said. The Pyongyang-supplied missiles with ranges […]
Russia used N.Korean missiles for Ukraine attacks: US
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, Jan 4, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea has provided Russia with ballistic missiles and missile launchers that were used in recent attacks on Ukraine in a major escalation of support for Moscow, the White House said Thursday. Russia is also looking to obtain missiles from its ally Iran as it runs short of arms nearly two years into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it said. The Pyongyang-supplied missiles with ranges […]
NATO to buy 1,000 Patriot missiles in face of Russia threat
BRUSSELS, Jan 3, 2024 (AFP) – NATO members in Europe have signed a contract for up to 1,000 Patriot missiles to bolster air defences in the face of the threat from Russia, the alliance said Wednesday. The announcement of the contract, estimated to be worth $5.5 billion, comes as Moscow has unleashed repeated barrages of deadly missile and drone strikes against Ukraine in recent days. NATO’s procurement agency said the deal agreed by an initial […]
President Putin says Russia will ‘intensify’ attacks on Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine, Jan 1, 2024 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his forces would intensify strikes on military targets in Ukraine, after an unprecedented Ukrainian attack over the weekend on the Russian city of Belgorod. The attack on Saturday, which killed 25 people including five children, came after Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukrainian cities. Meanwhile, Kyiv said Russia had targeted the country with a “record” number of drones on New […]
