Russia marked Orthodox Easter with a drone attack across much of Ukraine, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv’s forces had shot down a Russian fighter jet and as Kremlin troops pressed in Ukraine’s east.
Switzerland has invited more than 160 countries to a planned conference on Ukraine’s peace blueprint, but didn’t include Russia on the guest list.
The US on Wednesday announced sanctions on nearly 300 companies and individuals, including in China and the United Arab Emirates, for alleged support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine still has a chance to prevail on the battlefield after Moscow took advantage of delays in Western military and financial aid, says North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
International and civil conflicts continue to deliver great grief and suffering to children and noncombatant young adults across the globe. So far at least, international conventions have had little success in reining in such horrors. Can anything be done?
Fighting has become more heated along the front line in eastern Ukraine, with Russia exploiting its advantage over Kyiv’s forces along several axes, Ukraine’s top soldier said.
Ukraine’s finance chief said a $61bn US aid package helps cover budget gaps for this year, though the nation’s fiscal outlook for 2025 was ‘very uncertain’, given the duration of the war with Russia.
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have reaffirmed a global commitment against deploying nuclear weapons in space, rebuffing US efforts to shine a spotlight on Moscow’s reported plans to do so.
Russia threatened to step up strikes on Ukraine in response to the US vote to provide new military aid to the government in Kyiv.
US President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that his administration would move quickly to distribute security assistance if the Senate votes this week to approve an aid package including $61bn for Kyiv.
Ukrainian authorities were jubilant at the approval in the US House of more than $60bn in aid, though the focus is shifting to how quickly assistance can get to the front line and how the package will change Kyiv’s fortunes in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
Poland has arrested a man suspected of assisting with a Russian plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday.
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