Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Russia-Ukraine war

Zelensky: Ukraine ready to discuss neutrality

Ukraine’s president has said his government was prepared to discuss adopting a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia. In an interview with independent Russian journalists, Volodymyr Zelensky said any such deal would have to be put...

Kyiv eases curfew as strikes continue

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Monday announced a slight easing of the curfew in the Ukrainian capital. In a post on his Facebook account, Klitschko said: “Friends! Important information! Curfew is changing in Kyiv and the region. As of today, March...

Ukraine war is our war, say Brit ex-squaddies heading to Lviv

The road to war for CJ, Elliott and Kieran ran through Facebook, a cheap flight to Poland, and a cold night sleeping outside a railway station. We meet the former British soldiers in Ukraine just outside a school, a couple...

First phase of Ukraine war over – Russia

Russia says it will focus its invasion of Ukraine on “liberating” the east, signalling a possible shift in its strategy. The defence ministry said that the initial aims of the war were complete, and that Russia had reduced the combat...

Russian shelling blamed for corrosive gas leak

Russian shells hit a chemical plant near the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, causing an ammonia leak, officials say. Residents of Novoselytsya, near Sumy, were told to stay indoors but the region’s governor, Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, later said the leak had...

Ukraine: Dozens killed in attack on Kharkiv

Dozens of people have been killed in Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, officials say. “Kharkiv has just been massively fired upon by grads (rockets). Dozens are dead and hundreds are wounded,” the interior ministry said on Facebook. The...

Ukrainian sailor tried to sink Russia’s yacht

A Ukrainian sailor has admitted trying to sink a yacht owned by the head of a Russian state arms firm in retaliation to the invasion of Ukraine. The 48m (157ft) Lady Anastasia, which belongs to Rosoboronexport director general, Alexander Mikheev,...

Anger at treatment of Africans fleeing Ukraine

Nigeria’s government has condemned reports that its citizens, and those of other African countrieshave been stopped from leaving war-torn Ukraine. Isaac, a Nigerian man trying to get into Poland, said border staff told him they were “not tending to Africans”. “We’ve...
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