Ukraine claims control over Kyiv region as Russia looks east
Zaporizhzhia, UkraineReuters Ukraine said on Saturday its forces had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion. As Russian troops regrouped for battles in east Ukraine, towns surrounding Kyiv bore scars of five weeks of fighting. Dead civilians laid scattered over […]
Updated: Ukraine sets ceasefire goal for new Russia talks, but breakthrough looks distant
Updated: 12:10pm (AEDT)Lviv/Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine said its top objective at the first face-to-face talks with Russia in over two weeks, due to take place in Turkey on Tuesday, is to secure a ceasefire, although both it and the United States were skeptical of a major breakthrough. The more than month-long invasion, the biggest attack on […]
US cancels talks with Taliban over U-turn on girls’ education
Kabul, Afghanistan/Washington DC, US Reuters The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Afghanistan’s Islamist rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was the first concrete sign that […]
Scant progress in peace talks as Ukrainian cities pounded in more Russian attacks
Kyiv/Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Rescue workers on Thursday dug survivors out of the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol which Ukraine said had been hit by a Russian air strike as people sheltered there from bombardments. Russia denied striking the theatre. But Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under renewed Russian shelling on Thursday […]
Shells hit theatre sheltering Ukraine civilians, Biden calls Putin a war criminal
Kyiv/Lviv, Ukraine Reuters International outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grew on Thursday as US and Ukrainian officials said civilians waiting in line for bread and sheltering in a theatre had been killed by Russian forces. US President Joe Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal in comments the Kremlin said were “unforgivable” […]
Ukraine leader hints at compromise as Russian forces pummel capital
Lviv/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian air strikes and artillery fire smashed into buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday as invading forces tightened their grip, while a convoy of civilians headed out of the besieged port city of Mariupol for safer parts. At least five people were killed in the bombardments on Kyiv on the […]
US steps up pressure on Russia over Ukraine invasion
Lviv, UkraineReuters US President Joe Biden on Friday will call for an end of normal trade relations with Russia and clear the way for increased tariffs on Russian imports as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine, a source said. Washington’s moves to tighten the screws on Moscow come as US and European officials accuse Russia […]
Ukraine, Russia agree on need for evacuation corridors as US sanctions oligarchs
Borodyanka/Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Russia and Ukraine agreed on Thursday to the need for humanitarian corridors to help civilians escape Moscow’s eight-day-long invasion, the first apparent progress in talks, as the United States and Britain hit more oligarchs with sanctions. Thousands are thought to have died or been wounded as the biggest attack on a European state […]
Russian artillery pounds Ukraine’s Kharkiv as ceasefire talks end with no breakthrough
Kyiv, Lviv, Ukraine/Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian artillery bombarded residential districts of Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv on Monday, killing possibly dozens of people, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow’s invading forces met stiff resistance from Ukrainians on a fifth day of conflict. The attacks took place while Russian and Ukrainian officials met on the Belarusian border, […]
Amid concerns over rising global temperatures, Tuvalu church leader says even two per cent rise will destroy his culture
Amid concerns that the planet is on track for global temperatures to increase by at least three degrees Celsius, a key church leader from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, speaking at the climate change talks currently underway in Bonn, has said that even a two degree increase will mean the “disappearance of our islands”. […]