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By Anatoly STEPANOV GROZA, Ukraine, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) – A Russian strike killed at least 51 people gathered for a wake in an eastern Ukrainian village Thursday, provoking a wave of outrage from Western leaders for what a UN official called a “horrifying” attack. AFP journalists on the scene in the aftermath saw rescuers carrying a corpse from the rubble and several charred bodies in civilian clothes lying side by side, and others in […]
MOSCOW, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) – Russia’s navy will establish a base on the Black Sea coast of a separatist region in Georgia, its leader said in an interview published Thursday, as Moscow’s warships face mounting attack by Ukraine. The announcement from the leader of breakaway Abkhazia comes on the back of several attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russia’s Black Sea fleet that have embarrassed the Kremlin. Both Moscow and Kyiv have escalated tensions on […]
By Anna MALPAS KUPIANSK, Ukraine, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) – Sergiy walked out of his grey-brick house carrying two plastic holdalls and closed the front door as his dog barked. Then the 71-year-old got into a car for evacuation. His village of Boguslavka in eastern Ukraine looks idyllic, with geese in ponds and cows grazing, but Sergiy had finally decided to leave after heavy strikes. This area close to the Russian border has become too […]
VIENNA, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – An OPEC+ panel recommended Wednesday that the oil cartel keep its current output reduction strategy unchanged after heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Russia vowed to maintain their cuts to prop up prices. Oil prices recovered in recent months and approached $100 per barrel last week as top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia have taken millions of barrels off the market. Crude prices have eased in more recent days, however, as […]
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Kyrgyzstan next week, authorities in the Central Asian country said Wednesday, in his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him. Putin has not left Russia since The Hague-based court issued the warrant in March over the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. “By the invitation of the president of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov on […]
MOSCOW, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) – Kyiv’s attempts to penetrate Russian defences on frontlines in the east and south of the country have “failed”, Moscow said on Tuesday, four months into a closely-watched Ukrainian counteroffensive. Kyiv launched the long-awaited counteroffensive in June but has acknowledged slow progress as its forces crash into sophisticated and kilometres-deep Russian defensive positions. “The enemy’s attempts to break through our defences in the areas of Verbovoye and Rabotino on the […]
KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Ukraine on Monday reacted angrily to a social media post by billionaire Elon Musk that made fun of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s repeated calls for Western military and financial aid to fight Russian forces. Musk has provided Ukraine with Starlink satellite services that have been vital to the Ukrainian army, but some have criticised his statements on the war with Russia. Musk owns the social media platform X — […]
MOSCOW, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – The Kremlin said on Monday that Western fatigue over Ukraine “will grow”, as the future of United States aid for Kyiv hung in the balance. A compromise struck in the US Congress over the weekend left out fresh funding for Ukraine due to opposition from hardline Republicans. “Fatigue over this conflict — fatigue from the completely absurd sponsorship of the Kyiv regime — will grow in various countries, including […]
MOSCOW, Sept 29, 2023 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked a former aide of late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine, according to a Kremlin statement on Friday. “At the last meeting we talked about you overseeing the formation of volunteer units that can carry out various tasks, first and foremost of course in the zone of the special military operation,” Putin was quoted as saying to Andrei […]
MOSCOW, Sept 26, 2023 (AFP) – The Kremlin said Tuesday that US Abrams tanks supplied to Ukraine would not change the outcome of its offensive and would “burn”, after Kyiv received shipments of the vehicles. Kyiv announced Monday it had received deliveries of the US Abrams battle tank, boosting its forces as they seek to break through heavily-fortified Russian defensive lines. “All this can in no way affect the essence of the special military operation, […]
MOSCOW, Sept 26, 2023 (AFP) – The commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, whom Ukraine claimed to have killed in a recent missile strike, appeared in images distributed on Tuesday by Russia’s defence ministry. Kyiv said earlier this week it had killed Admiral Viktor Sokolov and 34 officers in an unprecedented strike on the fleet’s naval headquarters in the annexed Crimean peninsula last week. Sokolov was pictured in military uniform attending via video link a […]
By Victoria LUKOVENKO KYIV, Ukraine, Sept 25, 2023 (AFP) – Ukraine has received US Abrams battle tanks, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Monday, boosting Kyiv’s forces as they seek to break through heavily-fortified Russian defensive lines. The announcement came just after Ukraine claimed it had killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in a missile strike on Moscow’s naval headquarters in Crimea last week in what would be a major embarrassment for Russia. “Abrams are […]
