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KYIV, Ukraine, May 26, 2023 (AFP) – A Russian missile on Friday morning struck a medical facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing two and injuring 30 including two children, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video of smoke billowing from roofless buildings with blown-out windows. “There are already 30 victims, including two children. There is still no contact with three people who may have been here,” the head of the […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that Russia had begun moving nuclear weapons to its territory, which borders the European Union, ratcheting up tensions with the West over the Ukraine conflict. On the diplomatic front, Russia’s foreign ministry announced a visit to Moscow by China’s special envoy for Ukraine, Li Hui — Beijing’s latest effort to broker an end to the fighting. Li’s visit to the Russian capital, where he is […]
BERLIN, Germany, May 26, 2023 (AFP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin “in due course”, holding out the prospect of resuming contact after a near-total breakdown in relations since the Ukraine war. “My last telephone call was some time ago,” Scholz told the Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper in an interview published Friday. “But I plan to speak to Putin again in due course.” The leaders last spoke […]
By Rigoberto DIAZ Agence France-Presse HAVANA, Cuba, May 26, 2023 (AFP) — For the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia is taking an intense interest in Cuba as Moscow has become increasingly isolated over its invasion of Ukraine. Top Russian officials have flocked to the island nation this year, starting in March with Nikolai Patrushev, Moscow’s secretary of the Security Council, alongside the executive director of state oil company Rosneft, Igor […]
MOSCOW, May 25, 2023 (AFP) – Russia on Thursday summoned the envoys of Germany, Sweden and Denmark over Moscow’s frustration with the lack of progress on probes into the sabotaged Nord Stream gas pipelines. Built to carry Russian gas to Germany, the pipelines in the Baltic Sea were ruptured by subsea explosives months after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February, 2022. Western countries have blamed the explosions under the Baltic Sea […]
TOKYO, May 25, 2023 (AFP) – Japan scrambled fighter jets Thursday after Russian “intelligence-gathering” aircraft were detected off its coasts along the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan, the country’s Joint Staff said. One Russian aircraft travelled from Japan’s north down along part of its west coast, while the other took a similar route along the opposite coast and returned the same way, the Joint Staff said in a brief statement. “In response, fighters of […]
HELSINKI, May 24, 2023 (AFP) – Record numbers of Russians, by far the highest in three decades, moved to neighbouring Finland in 2022, official statistics published Wednesday showed. A total of 6,003 people moved from Russia to Finland last year, according to Statistics Finland, making it the top country of origin for immigration. Immigration to Finland was up overall, with almost 50,000 people moving to the country, compared to an average of between 29,000 and […]
MOSCOW, May 24, 2023 (AFP) – Moscow will respond to attacks on Russian soil “extremely harshly”, Russia’s defence minister warned Wednesday, after Russian jets and artillery fought off an armed group that crossed from Ukraine. The incursion was the most serious since Moscow launched its offensive in Ukraine last year, with fighting in Russia’s Belgorod region lasting days. “We will continue to respond promptly and extremely harshly to such actions by Ukrainian militants,” Sergei Shoigu […]
SHANGHAI, China, May 23, 2023 (AFP) — Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has arrived in China, Moscow’s foreign ministry said, for a visit in which he will meet with President Xi Jinping and ink a series of deals on infrastructure and trade. Mishustin arrived late Monday in Shanghai, the ministry said, where he was greeted at the airport by Moscow’s ambassador to China Igor Morgulov and Beijing’s top diplomat to Russia Zhang Hanhui. He will […]
KYIV, Ukraine, May 22, 2023 (AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Bakhmut was “not occupied” by Moscow, while the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group insisted his fighters had taken control of the eastern city “to the last centimeter”. Kyiv’s military said it was hanging on to a small part of the city and said its troops were advancing on its flanks. Bakhmut, a salt-mining town that once had a population of […]
MOSCOW, May 21, 2023 (AFP) – Russia said Saturday it has captured the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, epicentre of the fighting, as President Vladimir Putin congratulated his troops and private mercenary group Wagner. The announcement from the Russian army came hours after Kyiv said the battle was continuing, while admitting the situation was “critical”, and with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky meeting G7 leaders in Japan. Bakhmut, a salt-mining town that once had a population […]
MOSCOW, May 20, 2023 (AFP) – Russia’s private army Wagner claimed Saturday the total control of the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the epicentre of fighting, as Kyiv said the battle was continuing, while admitting the situation was “critical”. The announcement by Wagner came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took part in the G7 summit in Japan. Bakhmut, a salt mining town that once had a population of 70,000 people, has been the scene of […]
