Ukraine

A serviceman of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) walks at the damaged war memorial complex Savur-Mohyla during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Donbas region from the Nazi occupation during World War Two, outside the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Ukraine on 7 September, 2018

Ukraine rules out ceasefire as fighting intensifies in Donbas

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland, as Polish President Andrzej Duda ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky appears on a screen as he speaks in a video conference during a special plenary session of the European Parliament focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on 1 March, 2022

Ukraine’s Zelensky warns only diplomacy can end war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory can end Russia’s war on his country, while pushing its case for EU membership

This picture taken from the Mariupol drama theatre, hit last March 16 by an airstrike, shows the central avenue of Mariupol on 12 April 2022, as Russian troops intensify a campaign to take the strategic port city, part of an anticipated massive onslaught across eastern Ukraine, while Russia's president makes a defiant case for the war on Russia's neighbour.

Russia-Ukraine war Ukraine warns only talks can end war as Russia cuts Finland gas supply

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky warned Saturday that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia's war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies ...

Dmytro Mosur, 32, who lost his wife during shelling in nearby Severodonetsk on May 17, holds his 2-year-old twin daughters as they wait to be evacuated from the city of Lysychans’k, eastern Ukraine, on 20 May 2022

Russia targets Ukraine’s last link to besieged east

Ukraine’s outgunned forces have been trying to keep the Russians from encircling the once-bustling cities of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk at the road’s northeastern end

Model of LNG tanker is seen in front of Finland's flag in this illustration taken on 19 May 2022

Russia halts gas supplies to Finland

Finland, along with neighbouring Sweden, this week broke its historical military non-alignment and applied for NATO membership

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses from Gonobhaban, her official residence, the first high level meeting of the Champions of ‘Global Crisis Response Group (GCRG)’ held on virtual platform on 20 May 2022

GCRG summit PM Hasina for well-coordinated global efforts to overcome food, energy, financial crises

Sheikh Hasina urged the advanced economies and multilateral financial institutions to come forward and grant duty-free-quota-free market access

The 156 metres Dilbar superyacht owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, lies in the Blohm & Voss dock in the harbour in Hamburg, Germany on 3 March, 2022

EU exploring ways to use Russian oligarchs’ frozen assets to rebuild Ukraine

Von der Leyen also said she favoured coupling the long-term reconstruction of Ukraine with reforms needed for it to join the European Union

US General Mark Milley (R) and his Russian counterpart General Valery Gerasimov

Top US, Russian generals speak for first time since Ukraine war began: Pentagon

The call came as Washington is stepping up its arms support for Ukraine, with a new $40 billion aid package expected to be passed by the Congress on Thursday

President Joe Biden

US approves $40b for Ukraine as Biden rallies behind NATO bids

The bundle includes $6 billion earmarked for Ukraine to boost its armored vehicle inventory and air defense system

A serviceman of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) walks at the damaged war memorial complex Savur-Mohyla during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Donbas region from the Nazi occupation during World War Two, outside the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Ukraine on 7 September, 2018

‘Hell’ in Ukraine’s Donbas as Russia piles on pressure, warns Zelenskiy

Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region, the focus of recent Russian offensives, has been destroyed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as some of the world’s richest countries pledged to bolster Kyiv ...

A bus carrying service members of the Ukrainian armed forces, who surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel mill, drives away under escort of the pro-Russian military in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in Mariupol, Ukraine on 19 May, 2022.

Ukraine steelworks troops surrender as Russian soldier says sorry

Russia said Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant, after a desperate battle that has become emblematic of the nearly three-month-old war

Italy's Prime Minister, Mario Draghi waves during a joint press conference with his Finnish counterpart following their meeting on 18 May, 2022 at Palazzo Chigi in Rome.

Italy PM says independence from Russian gas to take longer

Italian prime minister Mario Draghi said Thursday his country could be independent of Russian gas by the second half of 2024, longer than earlier estimates

US President Joe Biden speaks to an audience at United Performance Metals on 6 May 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Joe Biden set for first Asia trip

The administration wants not so much to confront China on the trip as to use Biden’s diplomacy to show that the West and its Asian partners will not be divided and weakened, said Sullivan

Ears of wheat are seen in a field near the village of Zhovtneve, Ukraine 14 July, 2016

UN warns global food crisis could affect tens of millions

The UN warned Wednesday that a growing global food crisis could last years if it goes unchecked, as the World Bank announced an additional $12 billion in funding to mitigate its “devastating effects.”

Buses carrying service members of Ukrainian forces who have surrendered after weeks holed up at Azovstal steel works drive away under escort of the pro-Russian military in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in Mariupol

More Ukraine fighters surrendering in Mariupol

Ukraine confirmed the surrender of more than 250 fighters on Tuesday but did not say how many more were inside

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