Moscow says US behind Kremlin drone attack, air raid sirens sound in Kyiv
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia said on Thursday that the United States was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin aiming to kill President Vladimir Putin, and air raid sirens sounded again in Kyiv as darkness fell following attacks the previous night. Reuters witnesses heard gunfire and repeated heavier explosions near the centre of Kyiv. […]
Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO, alliance chief says in rare visit to Kyiv
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s future lies in NATO, the Western military alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg underscored on Thursday during his first visit to the country since Russia’s invasion 14 months ago. “Let me be clear: Ukraine’s rightful place is in the euro-Atlantic family. Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. And over time, our support will […]
Ukraine reports unrelenting Russian attacks on key city of Bakhmut
Reuters Russia’s military on Thursday pressed on with unrelenting attacks on the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and also shelled the southern city of Kherson, officials in Kyiv said. The Kremlin sees Bakhmut as pivotal in its slow-moving advance through eastern Ukraine more than a year after it invaded its neighbour. Ukrainian artillery fires […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy denounces Russian strikes on Orthodox Palm Sunday
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced Russian air strikes coinciding with the observance of Orthodox Palm Sunday, including an attack that killed a father and daughter at home in the city of Zaporizhzhia. A police officer inspects remains of a Russian missile which hit a residential area, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on […]
Ukrainian court puts an Orthodox leader under house arrest
Kyiv, Ukraine AP A Kyiv court ordered a leading priest to be put under house arrest Saturday after Ukraine’s top security agency said he was suspected of justifying Russian aggression, a criminal offence. It was the latest move in a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery. Metropolitan Pavel is the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine’s […]
At least nine dead in Russian air strikes on two Ukrainian cities; Zelenskiy visits troops near frontline
Updated: 9:30am (AEDT)Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian air strikes on Ukrainian cities on Wednesday killed at least nine people in attacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said showed Moscow was not interested in peace. In a series of early-morning drone strikes, at least eight people were killed and seven were injured when two dormitories and a college […]
Orthodox Church accused by Kyiv of Moscow links faces eviction
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Eight bishops wearing robes and mitres went to the Ukrainian President’s offices this week to try to stop their historically Russian-aligned wing of the Orthodox Church being evicted from its Kyiv headquarters. They got only as far as a checkpoint, where they were turned back, and their request for a meeting on […]
Putin makes surprise trip to Russian-occupied Mariupol in wake of ICC warrant
Reuters A day after being accused of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, scene of some of the worst devastation of his year-old invasion. State television showed extended footage of Putin being shown around the city on Saturday night, meeting […]
Zelenskiy: Ukraine seeks “spiritual independence”, acts against church
Reuters Ukraine’s punitive actions against a branch of the Orthodox church linked to Russia are part of a drive to achieve “spiritual independence”, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. Zelenskiy and other Ukrainian leaders have accused the long-established Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of undermining Ukrainian unity and collaborating with Moscow. Orthodox priests of the Orthodox […]
One year into invasion, Ukraine mourns dead and vows victory
Updated: 10:30am (AEST)Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine honoured its dead and vowed to keep fighting on Friday while Russia told the world to accept “the realities” of its war but faced new Western sanctions on the invasion’s anniversary. Mariia reacts near the grave of her son Vasyl Kurbet, Ukrainian service member killed in a fight against Russian […]