Tag: Russia Ukraine
Russia blocks access to The Bell in latest crackdown on country’s media houses | World News
Russia on Sunday blocked access to The Bell, a news outlet founded by one of Russia’s top journalists, the latest website to be taken offline…
No signs of casualties after Russia claims hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers killed | World News
A Russian rocket strike on the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk caused damage but did not destroy buildings and there were no obvious signs of casualties,…
Russia ends self-proclaimed ceasefire, vows to press ahead in Ukraine | World News
Russia’s overnight bombing of regions in eastern Ukraine killed at least one, local officials said on Sunday, after Moscow ended a self-declared Christmas ceasefire and…
120 Russian missiles strike Ukraine cities, 90% of Lviv without power: Report | World News
Multiple regions of Ukraine, including its capital, faced a massive Russian missile attack Thursday, the biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting national infrastructure. Air…
Eight years of combat hardened Ukraine’s army into a fighting force | World News
When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered unmarked troops to Ukraine in 2014, first in Crimea and then the eastern borderlands of the Donbas, they were…
Day after massive Crimea bridge blast, traffic resumes on key link to Moscow | World News
Vehicular traffic resumed on Sunday on the bridge linking Russia with Crimea – widely seen as the Kremlin’s annexation of the peninsula – that was…
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant disconnected from power supply by shelling | World News
Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost its connection to external power supply early on Saturday as a result of shelling, Ukraine’s state nuclear company Energoatom…
Wife of jailed Ukrainian fighter urges Russia to release POWs | World News
The wife of a Ukrainian fighter imprisoned by Russia called for his release on Tuesday as a U.N. rights official said monitors had documented cases…
Bangladesh to reduce working hours for schools, banks to battle energy crisis | World News
Schools in Bangladesh will close an additional day each week and government offices and banks will shorten their work days by an hour to reduce…
‘Very concerned’: UN Human Rights on planned trials of Ukrainian POWs | World News
The UN Human Rights expressed concerns after some photos and videos on social media appeared to show metal cages being built by Russian-backed authorities in…