War

The RM 3 cargo ship is loaded with steel rolls at the Port of Mariupol, during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern city of Mariupol, Ukraine on 30 May 2022

Ship to take metal from Mariupol to Russia, Kyiv calls ‘looting’

Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova said the shipment amounted to looting by Russia

Bavaria's Schloss Elmau castle, where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosts the G7 leaders summit, is seen, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on 26 June 2022

G7 to ban Russian gold imports, choking key market for Putin

The attempt to clamp down on Russian gold is likely to be the most meaningful economic measure against Moscow announced at the G7’s three-day meeting

A picture taken on 21 June, 2022 from the town of Lysychansk, shows a large plume of smoke rising on the horizon, behind the town of Severodonetsk

Russia-Ukraine war Russians 'fully occupy' Severodonetsk, shift focus to Lysychansk

Russia's army has "fully occupied" the key Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk after weeks of fighting, its mayor said, as Russian president Vladimir Putin pledged to send nuclear-capable missiles to ...

This combination of pictures created on 24 June 2022 shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) arriving on 19 October 2016 at the chancellery in Berlin, and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) attending a national ceremony in Paris on 29 September 2021

Documentary containing Macron, Putin phone call to be aired Thursday

Macron has been praised by admirers by keeping open a channel to Putin, with whom he sought to cultivate a relationship to the point of inviting the Kremlin chief to his summer residence in 2019

Freight train wagons from Russian enclave Kaliningrad are seen at the border railway station in Kybartai, Lithuania on 21 June 2022

US says NATO commitment to Lithuania ‘ironclad’ after Russia threat

Lithuania, a former Soviet republic both in NATO and the European Union, has been among the most outspoken nations in opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Russian servicemen drive tanks during military exercises in the Leningrad Region, Russia, in this handout picture released 14 February, 2022

Russia warns Lithuania, pushes into Ukraine’s Donbas

Russia’s war of words with EU member Lithuania escalated on Tuesday, with Moscow vowing “serious” consequences over Vilnius’ restrictions on rail traffic to the exclave of Kaliningrad that borders ...

A combine harvests wheat in a field near the village of Kamennobrodskaya in Stavropol region, Russia on 4 July 2019

Turkey to host Ukraine grain talks next week

The initiative has been backed by the European Union but received a cautious response from Kyiv, which is looking for ways to export the grain by land, without talking to the Russians

Two Russian soldiers patrol in the Mariupol drama theatre, bombed last March 16, in Mariupol on 12 April, 2022, as Russian troops intensify a campaign to take the strategic port city

Russia to 'intensify' fighting, Zelensky warns

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that Russia was likely to intensify its “hostile activity” this week, as Kyiv awaits a historic decision from the European Union on its membership ...

This handout picture taken and released by the press service of the Ukrainian Presidency on 18 June, 2022 shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) looks on during his visit to the position of Ukrainian National Guard in Odessa region

Russia-Ukraine war Zelensky visits southern front as battles rage

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited the war-torn southern frontline on Saturday for the first time since the Russian invasion as "fierce battles" raged again in the eastern Donbas region

12th WTO Ministerial Conference

12th WTO Ministerial Conference Bangladesh pushes for stopping sudden ban on export of food products

Bangladeshi Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi in his opening speech urged the global leaders and WTO not to put any ban on export of food items for any reasons so that any country faces any food crisis

A combine harvests wheat in a field near the village of Kamennobrodskaya in Stavropol region, Russia on 4 July 2019

Russian-held Ukraine region scheming to sell grain to North America

Russia has seized large parts of Ukraine’s coast, blocking farm exports and driving up the cost of grain. Moscow blames the food crisis on sanctions restricting its own grain exports

A Ukrainian serviceman checks a just received Next Generation Light Anti-Armour Weapon (NLAW) on the position not far from the Ukrainian town of Chuguiv, in Kharkiv region on 9 June 2022

‘Ukraine dependent on arms from allies after exhausting Soviet-era weaponry’

Kyiv has asked repeatedly for the longer-range Himars precision missile systems, but Washington only agreed when it felt Ukraine was ready

Ukrainian servicemen wave as they ride atop an armoured fighting vehicle, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine June 8, 2022.

Troops hold on Sievierodonetsk, advance in south: Ukraine

"They (the Russians) are dying like flies ... fierce fighting continues inside Sievierodonetsk," Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said

This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian presidential press service on 5 June, 2022, shows Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting on the current situation in the region during a working trip to the Zaporizhzhia region

Russia-Ukraine war Ukraine president says 'outnumbered' in strategic city Severodonetsk

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned Monday that his troops were outnumbered by a "stronger" Russian side, as the two countries' forces battled for control of the eastern city of ...

Smoke and dirt rise in the city of Severodonetsk during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on 2 June 2022

Russia using ‘all its power’ to capture eastern city: Ukraine

Tens of thousands of people have been killed, millions forced to flee and towns turned into rubble since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an all-out assault on his pro-Western neighbour on 24 ...

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