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MOSCOW, June 14, 2024 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would only halt its offensive on Ukraine if Kyiv effectively surrenders by pulling its troops out of the east and south and dropping its bid for NATO membership. Ukraine, NATO and the United States immediately rejected Putin’s hardline conditions to halt the full-scale military offensive that he launched in February 2022. The two countries have been locked in bloody conflict for […]
KYIV, Ukraine, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – Ukraine said Sunday it had hit an Su-57 fighter jet parked at an airfield in southern Russia, its first ever attack on Moscow’s latest generation stealth aircraft. The flagship Su-57 entered into service with Russia’s aerospace forces in December 2020 and was designed to replace ageing Soviet-designed fighter aircraft like the Su-27 and MiG-29. “On 8 June 2024, a Su-57 multi-purpose fighter jet of the aggressor state was […]
KYIV, Ukraine, June 6, 2024 (AFP) – Ukraine on Thursday announced it was ordering the evacuation of children and their guardians from several towns and villages in the eastern Donetsk region, where fighting with Russia is intensifying. President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russian firepower is now concentrated on the Donetsk region, which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed in 2022, despite not having full control over it. “This is an important decision designed primarily […]
By Karim TALBI SAINT PETERSBURG, June 5, 2024 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticised the West’s delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine, arguing Moscow could arm other countries with similar weapons to attack Western targets. The comment — which Putin made at a rare press conference with foreign news outlets — came after several Western countries including the United States gave Ukraine the green light to strike targets inside Russia, a move […]
KYIV, Ukraine, June 4, 2024 (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russian forces were focusing their main firepower on the eastern Donetsk region and not northeastern Kharkiv where they launched a new offensive last month. Russian forces made their most significant territorial gains in 18 months during a major ground assault on the Kharkiv region last month, capturing several Ukrainian border villages and forcing thousands from their homes. Kyiv rushed reinforcements and […]
Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. welcomes Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky upon his arrival at the Malacanang Palace in Manila.
US President Joe Biden secretly lifted restrictions on Ukraine using American-supplied weapons against targets on Russian territory, but only to defend the under-fire Kharkiv region, US officials said Thursday. Biden had come under increasing pressure from a desperate Ukraine to ease his ban, but had so far resisted amid fears it could drag NATO into direct conflict or even a nuclear standoff with Moscow. “The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is […]
By Anna Maria JAKUBEK WARSAW, May 31, 2024 (AFP) – The Polish government said Friday that a false story stating that Poles would be mobilised to fight in Ukraine that appeared on the state news agency was likely a Russian cyberattack. Prime Minister Donald Tusk described the hacking attack as part of Russia’s attempts to destabilise the European Union ahead of next month’s European Parliament elections. The fake report was published Friday as NATO’s foreign […]
By Sergey Bobok KHARKIV, Ukraine, May 26, 2024 (AFP) – The death toll from Russian strikes on a hardware store in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to 14 Sunday, the regional governor said as rescuers searched the charred debris for bodies. “The number of dead has grown to 14,” Oleg Synegubov, Kharkiv regional governor, said on Telegram, as nearly 200 rescuers worked at the scene. Interior minister Igor Klymenko said earlier that 43 […]
By Emmanuel PEUCHOT, Ania TSOUKANOVA =(Picture+Video)= KYIV, Ukraine, May 18, 2024 (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with AFP on Friday warned Russia could intensify its offensive and said Kyiv would only accept a “fair peace” despite the West’s calls for a quick solution. Zelensky also repeated pleas for allies to send more air defence and fighter jets and said the “biggest advantage” for Russia was a ban on Ukraine using Western-donated […]
BEIJING, May 17, 2024 (AFP) – Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in the northeastern city of Harbin on Friday, the final day of a visit aiming to promote crucial trade with China and win greater support for his war effort in Ukraine. Putin arrived Thursday on his first trip abroad since his March re-election, meeting President Xi Jinping for talks in which the leaders framed their nations’ ties as a stabilising force in a chaotic […]
