[ad_1] GENEVA – A team of experts commissioned by the UN’s top human rights body to look into rights violations in Ukraine said Friday its initial investigation turned up evidence of war crimes in the country following Russia’s invasion nearly seven months ago. The experts from the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, mandated by Human Rights Council earlier this year, have so far focused on four regions — Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy. Presenting their…
"Ukraine war crimes: UN experts present evidence"Tag: War
[ad_1] BEIRUT (AP) — Satellite imagery showed widespread destruction at a giant military facility in western Syria targeted in a recent Israeli airstrike, and the head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said Sunday the strike targeted a depot housing hundreds of middle-range missiles for Iran-backed fighters. Syrian state media reported after the Thursday night attack near the cities of Tartus and Hama that two people were wounded and fires were sparked in nearby forests.…
"War monitor: Israeli strike targeted missile depot in Syria"
[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…
"Ukraine war: Macron slams Russian invasion, hours after brokering nuclear inspection deal"
[ad_1] For now, Ukraine is trying less-effective alternatives to export its grain, at least to Europe. Currently, 30 per cent of exports go via three Danube River ports in south-western Ukraine. The country also is trying to ship grain via 12 border crossings with European countries, but trucks must wait in line for days, and Europe’s infrastructure cannot yet absorb such a volume of grain, Horbachov said. A farmer collects fragments of Russian rockets that…
"Anxiety grows for harvest trapped in a war zone"
[ad_1] The Senate voted 86 to 11 to pass a $40 billion Ukraine aid package Thursday in the latest bipartisan signal of Washington’s deepening commitment to Ukraine’s grinding war against Russia. The bill includes a huge one-time outlay of military and security assistance, along with funding for mounting economic and humanitarian needs. This latest legislation comes in addition to the $13.6 billion in emergency assistance for Ukraine that Congress approved in March, bringing the total…
"US approves $40 billion in aid for Ukraine’s war with Russia"
[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] The U.S. government has formally concluded that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in a statement on Wednesday. The finding lends official weight to expressions of revulsion about Russia’s military conduct from top U.S. officials, including President Biden, who last week declared Russian President Vladimir V. Putin “a war criminal.” But the statement did not mention Mr. Putin himself, saying only that “members of Russia’s…
"The U.S. Government Accuses Russian Forces of War Crimes" [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…
"Those left in Kyiv try to keep life going amid Ukraine war"