Russia accuses Ukraine of killing 65 of its own PoWs by shooting down plane
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of 74 people. The Russian defence ministry said six Russian crew members and three Russian […]
Russia rejects US arms control talks for now, citing Ukraine
Moscow, Russia/Washington DC, US Reuters Russia on Thursday publicly rejected US-Russian arms control talks for now because of US support for Ukraine, a stance Washington said cast doubt on Moscow’s openness to a successor to the last treaty limiting their strategic nuclear arsenals. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Washington had proposed separating […]
Russia’s Lavrov doesn’t reject UN bid to revive Black Sea deal, but says unrealistic
United Nations Reuters Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday portrayed the United States and Europe as “looking down” on the rest of the world amid a battle to win over developing countries, and said that while Moscow does not reject UN efforts to revive a Black Sea grain deal, a recent proposal was unrealistic. […]
At UN, Russia’s Lavrov warns world at “dangerous threshold”
United NationsReuters UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that the risk of conflict between global powers was at an “historic high” and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the world was at a threshold “possibly even more dangerous” than during the Cold War. Guterres, seated next to Lavrov in the UN Security Council, criticized […]
Ukraine clings to Bakhmut, Blinken tells Lavrov US will back Kyiv all the way
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine Reuters Ukrainian forces held out in the eastern city of Bakhmut against Russian attackers on Thursday, while the top US diplomat told his Russian counterpart in their first face-to-face encounter since the invasion that the Kremlin must stop the war. In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin said Russia had been hit by what […]
Russia bans oil sales to countries that accept price cap
Kyiv/Bakhmut, Ukraine Reuters Russia announced on Tuesday it would ban oil sales to countries that abide by a price cap imposed this month by the West, giving its long-awaited response to the most dramatic step taken so far to limit Moscow’s ability to raise funds for its war in Ukraine. Under the price cap, which […]
US warns of catastrophic consequences if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Reuters The United States warned of “catastrophic consequences” if Moscow were to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, after Russia’s Foreign Minister said regions holding widely-criticised referendums would get full protection if annexed by Moscow. Votes in four eastern Ukrainian regions, aimed at annexing territory Russia has taken by force mostly since its invasion in February, […]
Some Russians flee war call-up as world powers face off at UN
Kyiv, Ukraine/New York City, USReuters Some draft-age Russians rushed to the borders on Thursday to escape their country’s biggest conscription drive since World War II, as world powers rounded on Moscow at the United Nations, accusing it of escalating the conflict in Ukraine. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, responded with defiance, defending Moscow’s record and […]
Russia’s war aims in Ukraine widen; Ukrainian First Lady appeals to US Congress
Reuters Russia’s military “tasks” in Ukraine now go beyond the eastern Donbas region, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, as its forces shelled eastern and southern Ukraine. Lavrov also told state news agency RIA Novosti that Moscow’s objectives will expand still further if the West keeps supplying Kyiv with long-range weapons such as the […]
Ukraine pleads for more weapons as Russian military shells Donbas
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine urged its allies on Friday to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia’s military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while a belligerent Moscow warned Western nations of consequences for their reprisals over its invasion. Signalling that the Kremlin was in no mood for compromise, President Vladimir Putin […]