Ukraine

Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday welcomed the departure of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, saying she was a disgrace of a leader who would be remembered for her "catastrophic illiteracy". "Britain has never known such a disgrace…

KYIV: Ukrainians faced their first large-scale nationwide disruptions to electricity on Thursday as officials sought to restrict supply to allow energy companies to repair power facilities that have been pounded by Russian air strikes.…

KYIV: Kyivmayor Vitali Klitschko said Wednesday that "several Russian rockets" had been downed over the Ukrainian capital after AFP reporters heard loud explosions in the centre of the city. "Air defences have shot down several Russian…

MOSCOW: Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine's southern Khersonregion on Wednesday said they planned to evacuate some 50,000 civilians due to a Ukrainian counter-offensive. "We are expecting to evacuate between 50,000 and 60,000…

BAKHMUT: Patriotic messages stating the fact that "Bakhmutis Ukraine" are scrawled on monuments all around this frontline city. But not everybody agrees that it should be so. The subject is up for debate at the local market, where the…

KYIV: Russia announced the evacuation of civilians from a key southern Ukrainian city Tuesday as it acknowledged the situation for its troops on the ground in Ukraine was "tense" in the face of a counter-offensive. Ukrainian officials,…

KYIV: The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine made a rare acknowledgment of the pressures they were under from Ukrainian offensives to retake southern and eastern areas that Moscow claims to have annexed just weeks ago. In another…

KYIV: Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country’s President called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark and make peace talks…

KYIV: Russian air strikes have destroyed 30% of Ukraine's power stations since October 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyysaid on Tuesday. He wrote on Twitter that the attacks had caused massive blackouts across Ukraine and that…

WASHINGTON: The United States will continue to vigorously enforce sanctions on Russian and Iranian arms trade, the White House said, asserting that it will stand with the people of Ukraine for as long as it takes. This will make it…