[ad_1] French President Emmanuel Macron said Russia launched a “brutal attack” on Ukraine in an imperialist, revanchist violation of international law. Macron made the comments during a ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of Allied landings in Nai-occupied Provence during World War II, and just hours after he spoke to Putin and helped broker a deal to allow UN nuclear inspectors to visit a critical plant in Ukraine. Macron, who tried tirelessly but unsuccessfully to prevent…
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[ad_1] Actor Steven Seagal is pushing pro-Russia propaganda through the country’s state media, repeating Kremlin talking points in a video posted Tuesday. Footage shared by Russian state media shows the 70-year-old actor standing in what appears to be the wreckage of a building identified as Ukraine’s Olenivka prison in Donetsk, reports Insider. In late July, more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the facility in disputed circumstances. In the video, however, Seagal…
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[ad_1] KYIV, Ukraine – Russia’s defence minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of Ukraine’s Donbas region. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin that Russia’s troops together with members of a local separatist militia “have established full control over the city of Lysychansk,” a ministry statement said. Taking Lysychansk constitutes “the liberation of…
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[ad_1] Editor’s note: This article dates to March 16. Listen to The World’s April 27 interview with the author, Vincent Castillo, an assistant professor of logistics at The Ohio State University, by clicking the audio player below: Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, invoking King in his virtual address to Congress on March 16, 2022, said he has a need. “We need you right now,” Zelenskiy told US lawmakers. Since…
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[ad_1] What’s happening in Ukraine today and how are countries around the world responding? Read live updates on Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. HELSINKI — Telecoms network and 5G technology supplier Nokia says it will exit the Russian market due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The Espoo, Finland-based company said Tuesday “it has been clear for Nokia since the early days of the invasion of Ukraine that continuing our presence in Russia would…
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[ad_1] Embassy of Ukraine in the USA WAR BULLETIN April 8, 6.30 pm EST WAR ROOM General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine The forty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to Russian military invasion continues. The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. The Russian forces are being prepared for an offensive operation in the east of Ukraine.…
"Ukraine: WAR BULLETIN April 8, 6.30 pm EST"
[ad_1] A man holds a banner that reads, ‘Pensioners, badly treated’ as pensioners and activists take part in a demonstration. Emmanuel Dunand | Afp | Getty Images France looks set to push back its retirement age — after several failed attempts — as war in Ukraine and Emmanuel Macron’s active diplomacy have boosted the chances of the president being re-elected. Reforming France’s complicated retirement and pension policies has been tricky and costly for many French…
"retirement age set to rise as war in Ukraine boosts Macron" [ad_1] Issued on: 27/03/2022 – 08:32 Russia has started destroying Ukraine’s fuel and food storage depots and bringing troops on rotation to the countries’ shared border, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior ministry said Sunday. Kyiv has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross not to open a planned office in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, saying it would legitimise Moscow’s ‘deportation’ of Ukrainians. Follow all the developments in Ukraine on our live blog. All times in Paris…
"Kyiv accuses Russia of destroying fuel and food storage depots in Ukraine" [ad_1] Embassy of Ukraine in the USA WAR BULLETIN March 19, 6.30 EST WAR ROOM General Directorate of Military Cooperation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine The total estimated loss of the Russian forces between 24.02.22 – 19.03.22 : personnel – about 14 400; aircraft – 95; helicopters – 115; tanks – 466; armored personnel vehicles – 1470; artillery systems – 213; air defence systems – 44; multiple rocket launch systems – 72;…
"Ukraine: WAR BULLETIN March 19, 6.30 EST"
[ad_1] KYIV, Ukraine — It’s hard to think of a more unlikely combo than war zones and cinnamon buns. Yet there the buns are in the display cabinet of Khlibar, a high-end bakery and coffee shop (whose name means Bread Bar) in Podil, the hipster neighborhood in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Slathered in cream cheese frosting, they sit on trays laden with poppy seed pastries, cherry rolls, cheese braids and delicately constructed puff pastry cakes with…
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