Ukraine battles on in Bakhmut as Finland joins NATO
KYIV – Fighting raged in and around Bakhmut as Ukraine mocked Russian claims to have captured the administrative centre of the eastern Ukrainian city, saying Russian forces had raised a … Read More
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Ex-CIA chief James Olson dubs Putin ‘dead man walking’
Russia’s Vladimir Putin could be eliminated by his own military brass fed up with catastrophic losses in Ukraine, which would finally bring the war to an end, according to an … Read More
Daria Trepova accused of blowing up pro-war blogger in cafe
A Russian female anti-war activist has been detained for allegedly blowing up a notorious pro-Putin blogger after handing him a sculpture laden with explosives inside a packed St. Petersburg café. … Read More
Zelensky calls Russia heading up UN Security Council ‘absurd’
Russia leading the United Nations Security Council while Vladimir Putin stands accused of war crimes in Ukraine is “absurd” and speaks to the “total bankruptcy” of the global body, Ukraine … Read More
Ukraine charges Moscow-linked priest with inciting religious hate
Ukraine’s Security Service has charged a Moscow-backed orthodox priest with inciting religious hatred and trying to justify the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. Petro Lebid, the abbot of the 980-year-old Kyiv … Read More
Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov warns ‘no one knows’ if Putin would use nukes
A Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist said this week that “no one knows” whether Vladimir Putin’s standoff with the West could result in nuclear fallout – and claimed that the … Read More
Zelensky says if Bahkmut falls, Russia will ‘smell that we are weak’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has raised the stakes in the battle over Bahkmut, warning that if Russia conquers the eastern city, Moscow could begin building international support for an armistice that … Read More
Mark Hamill lends ‘Star Wars’ voice to Ukrainian air-raid app
KYIV, Ukraine — “Attention. Air raid alert,” the voice says with a Jedi knight’s gravitas. “Proceed to the nearest shelter.” It’s a surreal moment in an already surreal war: the grave … Read More
Female Russian medics used as sex slaves by officers
Female Russian combat medics serving in Ukraine are allegedly being pressed into becoming so-called “field wives” — or sex slaves, a report said. The independent news outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio … Read More
Orlando Bloom, UNICEF ambassador and actor, visits children’s centre in Kyiv
Orlando Bloom, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations children’s organization UNICEF and a star of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings” movies visited a children’s … Read More
