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Heinous crime that at least 139 people dead should not be allowed to detract from efforts to find peace – or at least a truce – between Russia and Ukraine.
Putin’s re-election is positive for the increasingly close alliance with Beijing, but China’s diplomatic efforts require striking a fine balance ahead of Xi’s proposed trip to Europe.
- The destroyed Trypilska thermal power plant was the largest energy facility near Kyiv, with a capacity of 1,800 megawatts, enough for the pre-war needs of the capital
- Russia has stepped up combined missile and drone strikes targeting Ukraine’s grid system since mid-March
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has come under a series of drone attacks since April 7.
US Treasury Secretary’s meetings to include talks with China on ‘balanced growth’, a new dialogue to address China’s excess industrial capacity for EVs, solar panels and other clean energy goods.
Readers say Ukraine’s Nato status is unlikely to change the course of the war, and praise atomic bomb survivor Japan’s decision to finally screen Oppenheimer film
Kyiv said the feared operation would make Ukraine appear responsible for whatever took place at the nuclear site in southern Ukraine, which has been occupied by Russian troops since 2022.
Warmer weather has allowed Russia to ramp up its assaults in the region, as tanks can now more easily move across previously muddy terrain.
Moscow is receiving drone and missile tech, satellite imagery and machine tools, aiding its biggest military build-up since the Soviet era, US officials say.
The Netherlands will release €1 billion for Ukraine this year, on top of €2 billion that had already been agreed.
A dire shortage of ammunition and manpower along the 1,200km front and gaps in air defence show that Ukraine is at its most fragile moment in over two years of war, according to Western officials.
March 22 attack in Moscow killed at least 144 people, the deadliest in Russia in 20 years.
Switzerland on Wednesday announced that a high-level conference on the Ukraine conflict would be held on June 15-16, but without Russia.
Reason for evacuation was the almost daily shelling of towns in the region by Russia. Regional governor promised that all those affected would receive humanitarian and legal aid.
‘Patriot’, a memoir the Kremlin critic began working on in 2020, will be published in October.
The launch of the Angara-A5 rocket, a new post-Soviet launch vehicle, is intended to showcase Russia’s post-Soviet space ambitions.
Ukraine’s parliament passed a bill to overhaul the rules governing how the military mobilises civilians into its ranks as the war rages on with no end in sight.
Turkey could play an influential role in the International Lunar Research Station, says space analyst.
Warning from the top general for US forces in Europe comes as Republicans in Congress block tens of billions of dollars in US military aid for Kyiv.
The Commerce Department also restricted exports to 5 companies, including 2 in China, tied to drones used by Russia and Houthis.
Ukraine and up to 100 countries would attend the conference at the luxury Burgenstock resort near the central city of Luzern on June 15-16.
Kurt Campbell, No 2 at US State Department, echoes Beijing’s language of ‘red line’ and ‘core interest’ to mark out Washington’s strategic interest.
Moscow’s ‘carrot-and-stick’ tactic with Tokyo over the peace agreement goes back decades, analysts say, after a Kremlin spokesman dredged up the Cold War-era strategy in an effort to drive a wedge between the US and Japan.
The small arms and ammunition were being sent to Tehran-backed Houthis in Yemen, according to the US military.
Some 88 per cent of respondents also say North Korea is a cause for concern, while 89 per cent identify Russia as a danger, according to the annual survey.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield will become the most senior US official to visit the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas since Vice-President Kamala Harris went there in 2022.
Russia warned of ‘unprecedented’ flooding in coming days as locals in a city partially submerged by rising waters took to the streets in rare protest at the authorities’ handling of the crisis.
The United Nations Security Council said on Monday that it would decide this month on the Palestinians’ bid for full UN membership, with the long-shot campaign unlikely to survive US opposition.
Russia’s daily losses on the Ukrainian battlefield have been ticking upwards – from 400 in 2022, to 693 in 2023, to 913 through the first quarter of 2024 – according to UK intelligence.
The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
The president said that if his nation does not win, ‘other states will be attacked’.
Floods caused by rising water levels in the 2,428km-long Ural River have forced thousands to evacuate the Orenburg region in the nation’s southwest, the authorities say.
