BLAHODATNE: Ukraine‘s military said on Sunday its forces repelled an attack in the area of Blahodatne in the eastern part of the Donetsk region, while Russia’s Wagner private military group said it took control of the village. “Units of Ukraine’s Defence Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of .. Blahodatne ..in […]
Russia accused the Ukrainian military of deliberately striking a hospital in a Russian-held area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday in what it said was a war crime that killed 14 people and wounded 24 patients and medical staff wounded.There was no immediate response to the allegations from Ukraine. Reuters was not able to independently verify […]
KYIV: Ukraine dismissed more than a dozen senior officials including governors of several major battlefield provinces on Tuesday in the biggest shake-up of its wartime leadership since Russia’s invasion last year.Separately on Tuesday, a long-awaited decision on whether allies could send German-made heavy tanks to Ukraine finally confronted Berlin, after Poland said it had formally […]
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said personnel changes were being carried out at senior and lower levels, following the most high-profile graft allegations since Russia’s invasion that threaten to dampen western enthusiasm for the Kyiv government.Reports of a fresh scandal in Ukraine, which has a long history of shaky governance, come as European countries bicker […]
MOSCOW: Two years after Azerbaijan and Armenia ended a war that killed about 6,800 soldiers and displaced around 90,000 civilians, tensions between the countries are again high in a dispute over a six-kilometre (nearly four-mile) road known as the Lachin Corridor.The winding road, which is the only land connection between Armenia and the ethnic Armenian […]
BRUSSELS: Hundreds of demonstrators on Sunday urged Belgium to push harder to secure the release of aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, held by Iran in a case decried as “hostage diplomacy”. The crowd, gathered in freezing temperatures in central Brussels, chanted “Free Olivier” and sang Happy Birthday to mark Vandecasteele’s 42nd birthday this week. “The aim […]
ATHENS: Greek warplanes scrambled Sunday to escort a Ryanair flight from Poland to Greece with 190 people on board after a bomb alert was reported to authorities, officials said.Two F-16 jets escorted the flight, which took off from Katowice for Athens, as it entered Greek airspace from North Macedonia, the source told AFP.The Boeing 737 […]
STOCKHOLM: Protests in Stockholm on Saturday against Turkey and Sweden‘s bid to join Nato, including the burning of a copy of the Quran, sharply heightened tensions with Turkey at a time when the Nordic country needs Ankara’s backing to gain entry to the military alliance.“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack on […]
KYIV: Ukraine on Saturday blasted the “global indecision” of its allies after Germany refused to supply its vaunted Leopard tanks to bolster Kyiv’s fighting capacity in the nearly year-long war with Russia.On Friday, some 50 nations agreed to provide Kyiv with billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware, including armoured vehicles and munitions needed to […]
KYIV: European Union chairman, Charles Michel, arrived in Kyiv on Thursday for talks about the bloc’s support for Ukraine as it fights a Russian invasion, and reforms needed in the ex-Soviet republic to one day join the European alliance. Two weeks before an EU-Ukraine summit on Feb. 3, Michel, who chairs meetings of the EU’s […]
