Defence Minister Richard Marles has unveiled an additional $100m aid package for Ukraine, including “critical” precision weapons, as Kyiv pleads for international support. Announced overnight during Mr Marles’ brief visit to Ukraine, the new funding will include $50m for short range air defence systems and air-to-ground munitions. A further $30mContinue Reading
KYIV: The death toll rose to 10 on Sunday from a Russian drone strike that destroyed an apartment block in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa the previous day when a local official reported that the body of a third child was pulled from the rubble, along with that ofContinue Reading
BERLIN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France on Friday as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war. The Ukrainian leader was welcomed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the German chancellery in BerlinContinue Reading
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief refused to step down from his post at a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Monday, according to people familiar with the discussions. Zelenskyy asked Valeriy Zaluzhnyi to take on a new role as he seeks to reinvigorate his military leadership following the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive againstContinue Reading
WARSAW: Amid intensified Russian bombardment in Ukraine, Poland has activated its fighter jets to protect its airspace, a week after one Russian missile crossed into Polish territory, CNN reported on Tuesday.Poland, a NATO member that shares a border with Ukraine — said it activated two pairs of F-16 fighter jetsContinue Reading
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that he has lost count of the number of assassination attempts made against him since the start of the war.Speaking at his fortified Kyiv headquarters, Zelenskyy told the UK-based newspaper the Sun: “I really don’t know” when asked how many plots he had survived.TheContinue Reading
A day after Ukraine damaged a Russian naval vessel in an airstrike on Crimea, Russia hit the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa with missiles and drones, injuring five people and damaging an art museum founded in the 19th century, local and military authorities said Monday.In another setback, Ukraine’s 128th MountainContinue Reading
Ukraine’s military has formed a battalion of soldiers made up entirely of Russian citizens who want to fight against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.The Sibir (Siberia) battalion has brought together dozens of Russians and people from ethnic minorities in Russia who traveled via third countries because they wanted to join theContinue Reading
KYIV: Officials from the International Monetary Fund say they expect the United States will continue playing its key role in amassing multinational support that has helped keep Ukraine’s economy afloat during Russia’s invasion. That’s despite Congress recently passing a short-term funding package that averted a US government shutdown but droppedContinue Reading
KYIV: Ukraine struck the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in a missile attack Friday that left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering, according to military officials on both sides of the war and images from the scene in Crimea. The Russian defense ministry initially said one servicememberContinue Reading