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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian army was also attacking the city of Sloviansk, in the Donetsk, but Ukrainian forces were holding off ...

Sloviansk is critical to Russia’s objective of capturing all of eastern Ukraine. - A prominent member of Russia’s parliament, Leonid Slutsky, said Moscow was studying the possibility of exchanging the Azovstal fighters for Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy Ukrainian with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin who faces criminal charges in Ukraine. - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian army was also attacking the city of Sloviansk, in the Donetsk, but Ukrainian forces were holding off its advance in both major centres.

Fighting raged around Sievierodonetsk, a focus of Russia's struggling offensive in the Donbas region. Ukraine's president pressed allies for even more ...

It includes $8.8 billion for a fund to shore up the economies of Ukraine and other countries affected by the war. “It is a symbol that Kyiv, which was surrounded — and surrounded by killing fields — has reopened its cultural institutions,” said Lt. Maksym Butkevych, an audience member who came for the day from his military barracks. The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that Russia was demining the port of Mariupol in an attempt to get it running again. In its article on Mr. Savelyev’s remarks on Saturday, Tass reported that the north-south corridor he described connects Russia, “in particular,” with Azerbaijan, Iran and India. For Eastern European and Baltic leaders, a durable peace settlement and an end to the conflict has to include a crushing military victory that spells an end to Mr. Putin’s presidency. Volodymyr and Tetiana Shypilo, a teacher, and their son Andriy, 39, lived in one part of the house, and Oleh Yarmolenko, 47, lived alone in the other side. One of the ways to unblock them is a military solution, he said. By the time the troops pulled out at the end of March, two brothers, Yuriy and Viktor Pavlenko, who lived at the end of the street, lay dead in a ditch by the railway line. “The consequences of these politics was what happened in Bucha,” he said. Not a lot is known about the brigade, but Colonel Krasny claimed that it was notable for its lack of morality, for beatings of soldiers and for thieving. Olha Havryliuk’s son and son-in-law, along with a stranger, were shot in the head in the yard of their house. Military analysts say Russia is attempting to control Sievierodonetsk so that it can mount a push toward the city of Kramatorsk to the west.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the only way out of the war will be through diplomacy — in addition to a Kyiv win on the battlefield — as his ...

The latest: President Biden signed a $40 billion package of new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine on Saturday while visiting South Korea, amid signs that the United States and its allies are preparing for a drawn-out conflict. The city appears to be the war’s next major battlefield as Russia tries to gain control of the Donbas region and as weeks of fighting in Mariupol come to an end. Russian forces had sought to encircle the city of Kharkiv, the second-largest in Ukraine, but have been forced to retreat after Ukrainian troops mounted a successful counteroffensive. The visit is Duda’s third to Ukraine so far this year. Ukraine has also accused Russian forces of stealing grain and transporting it to Russia. So we turn to our partners with inquiries about the relevant weapons.” He explained how his position has changed over nearly three months of fighting: “I really thought we could end it only through dialogue — in that dialogue could be found answers to many questions, and many decisions from the Russian side. Zelensky did not specify what he wants Russia to return. “And this is what it will be in the end.” Legal residence, employment, education, health care and social benefits,” Zelensky said, according to a text of the speech posted by an official from the presidential office. Ukrainian authorities have put three captured Russian soldiers on trial for war crimes, and the Biden administration is supporting steps by the Ukrainian prosecutor general to investigate Russia’s actions in the war. Russia is likely to have deployed its only operational company of BMP-T “Terminator” tank support vehicles to Severodonetsk, a key focus for its operations in Donbas, Britain’s Defense Ministry said.

Russia ministry of defence says forces targeting command centres, troops, and ammunition depots; Zelenskiy says diplomacy only way to end war.

However, it has been burying soldiers since the invasion began in February. More were laid to rest on Saturday, according to Agence France Presse. It’s probably in 15 or 20 years, it takes a long time. “We suspect they were executed,” he added. YouTube has taken down more than 70,000 videos and 9,000 channels related to the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines, including removal of videos that referred to the invasion as a “liberation mission”. Instead of relief to finally to see the sky once again, however, Tymofiy responded with fear. “First of all, I am defending a person, not a crime,” Ovsyannikov said on Sunday on the eve of the verdict in the trial of 21-year-old tank commander Vadim Shysimarin, who has already pleaded guilty to killing an an unarmed civilian in late February. “I’m trying to prove that my defendant’s actions were misqualified. “My family, friends and colleagues support me,” Ovsyannikov added. Enerhodar has a population of more than 50,000 and many of the residents work at the two power plants located next to the town, one of which is the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear power station in Europe. Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported that Shevchik was in intensive care. “They know someone has to do it. I just do my job.” Dmytro Orlov, the mayor of the town recognised by Ukraine said on Sunday night that Shevchik had been taken to the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol to recover, and that he would be temporarily replaced as leader of the town.

More than 1000 Ukrainian educational institutions have been destroyed by Russia since the start of the war, says President Volodymyr Zelensky.

- Lithuania cuts Russian energy imports: Lithuania will have completely cut imports of Russian energy supplies including oil, electricity and natural gas from Sunday. The country’s Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Friday that the pan-European power exchange Nord Pool had decided to stop trading Russian electricity with its only importer in the Baltic States, Russian utility Inter RAO – meaning the country would no longer be importing any Russian energy. Under the restrictions introduced Saturday, cars and passengers entering the city need single-use passes issued by a Russian commandant in Manhush or Vynohradne, towns to the west and east of the occupied city, Andrushchenko said. "Not only it is an extremely important milestone for Lithuania in its journey towards energy independence, but it is also an expression of our solidarity with Ukraine,” Lithuanian Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys said. - EU membership for Ukraine would take “15 or 20 years,” French minister says: Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union would take at least “15 or 20 years" to complete, France’s European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Sunday, while promoting President Emmanuel Macron’s alternative proposal of creating a new “European political community” including Ukraine. “If we say that Ukraine will join the European Union in 6 months, one year, two years, we are lying. A Ukrainian businessman, working with WEF, has turned the venue into an exhibition depicting the devastation and destruction of the war in Ukraine. Organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and PinchukArtCentre, an international centre for contemporary art based in Kyiv, “the exhibition aims to inform about the main facts, share faces, names and dates and provide at least some of the victims a platform from which to tell their real story,” the foundation said in a press release. The Zhytomyr region sits to the west of Kyiv.

Kyiv says it will not agree to a ceasefire that involves handing territory to Russia; Ukrainian president says up to 100 Ukrainians dying every day on ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 50 to 100 Ukrainians were dying every day on the war’s eastern front in what appeared to be a reference to military casualties. Intelligence officers say more than 50 specialists have been in Russia for several weeks working alongside officials from president Vladimir Putin’s military. A bid by Ukraine to join the European Union would not be finalised for “15 or 20 years”, France’s Europe minister said. “It’s probably in 15 or 20 years. Ukraine has said it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that would involve handing over territory to Russia, as Moscow intensified its attack in the eastern Donbas region. The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, spoke with Zelenskiy on Sunday evening about Russia’s blockade of Odesa, Ukraine’s largest shipping port.

US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a bill to provide nearly $40 billion in aid for Ukraine as part of efforts to boost military support over R.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the United Kingdom and other NATO members are discussing the possibility of sending modern weaponry to Moldova."I would want to see Moldova equipped to Nato standard. The Ukraine war can only be resolved through "diplomacy", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday amid a deadlock in negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. "The end will be through diplomacy," he told a Ukrainian television channel. Our people are dying," the mayor of the southern Ukrainian port city told AFP.

Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland's president travelled to Kyiv to support the country's European Union aspirations, ...

It intensified efforts to capture Sievierodonetsk, the main city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, which together with Donetsk province makes up the Donbas. The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that Russian forces had mounted an unsuccessful attack on Oleksandrivka, a village outside of Sievierodonetsk. gave Putin a badly wanted victory in the war he began nearly three months ago, on Feb. 24. “This is really a historic opportunity not to lose such strong relations, built through blood, through Russian aggression,” Zelensky said. “We have to be honest,” he said. Only Ukraine has the right to decide for itself.” “I want to say clearly: Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future.

Kyiv rules out ceasefire or territorial concessions as Moscow hits military targets in Ukraine's east and south.

They have been widely used, particularly on Russian military vehicles and equipment, to promote the aims of the conflict. Russian forces likely seek to push further west toward Bakhmut and north to support the encirclement of Severodonetsk. “From a historical perspective, it is the eastward expansion advanced by the US and NATO that provoked Russia’s resistance. Russian forces have secured advances to the north and west of Popasna since at least May 20. “There will be other public speeches during the week, including an address to the Stanford University community. “The war must end with the complete restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff said in a Twitter post. Johnson resolved to redouble efforts to provide vital food and humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine and ensure the country was able to export to the rest of the world, the spokesperson added. “I have introduced a special honorary title of ‘rescuer city’ for the partner cities of our state, which today do the impossible to help us, to help our people, to help our army,” Zelenskyy said in parliament during a visit from Poland’s President Andrzej Duda. Ukraine’s finance ministry said that now “all income of residents of the Russian Federation received from sources in Ukraine will be subject to a general tax rate of 15% established by the Tax Code of Ukraine,” instead of preferential rates established by the double taxation agreement. Ukraine and Poland have agreed to establish a joint border customs control and work on a shared railway company to ease the movement of people and increase Ukraine’s export potential. “The US-Japan alliance has long been the cornerstone of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific, and the United States remains fully committed to Japan’s defence,” Biden said at the beginning of talks with Kishida at the Akasaka Palace in central Tokyo. The war in Ukraine is expected to be a prominent topic in this year’s Davos discussions to which Russian companies and representatives have not received invitations.

To Ukrainians it was clear from the very start of Russia's invasion that this was no "special operation" to liberate the Donbas region, as Vladimir Putin ...

"Let the Russian people come and see what they did to us!" "I used to ask myself: 'Is my work effective to stop the war?' Now I see that it makes sense." "Fear and horror," she repeats. Fear and horror," Alina Petrovna tells me, as her son nails tarpaulin over the holes left in their roof by the shockwaves of heavy shelling. I see the law for what it is," the journalist says. "It doesn't matter which law they use against you, it's just to make you shut up." She feels a sense of responsibility for that, although the odds were stacked impossibly against her. "Truth is the regime's main enemy," says Evgenia Kara-Murza, Vladimir's wife, from Washington DC, where she lives for safety reasons. "I couldn't sleep, because people started to die… A Russian soldier has admitted in court to shooting a civilian. A month after his speech, Mr Kara-Murza was picked up by police in Moscow and later charged with "spreading false information" about Russia's military. They face up to 15 years behind bars for challenging the official line on Russia's invasion or criticising the military.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a "historic" joint customs control with Poland that he described as "the beginning of our integration into ...

Johnson said, "every country has a duty to help Ukraine in their struggle for freedom, both now and in the long-term." During a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Johnson spoke about the "despicable" blockade of the key port city of Odesa, according to the statement. The Ukrainian leader also said he spoke with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and "discussed ways to increase the volume of our exports, especially agricultural products. "It will be the right gesture to pass such a law in Ukraine," Zelensky said. But it is also the beginning of our integration into the common customs space of the European Union. That is a truly historic process." The number has also been propelled by "new waves of violence" or conflict in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Nigeria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cruise-missile attack: At least one person was killed Sunday in a Russian missile attack on Malyn, in the Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian military. At least 1,200 bodies of civilians have been discovered in the region since Russian troops withdrew from there, according to the Kyiv region police. At least 290 of them were found in Irpin, according to the city's mayor. The war in Ukraine has displaced 8 million within the country, and more than 6 million refugee movements from Ukraine have been registered, it said. All of the people CNN spoke to have described facing threats and humiliation during the process. CNN spoke to a number of Ukrainians who have gone through the filtration process over the last two months.

Russia said its forces control 95 percent of Luhansk, part of the eastern Donbas region. Russia suffered a similar death toll in three months of the war in ...

- Ukraine rejected a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow as Russia increased its attack in the eastern and southern parts of the country. - Ukraine said Russia is strengthening its position in the Black Sea as it added the frigate Makarov, increasing the risk of missile attacks on Ukraine. - Russia suffered a similar death toll in three months of the war in Ukraine as the Soviet Union in nine years of war in Afghanistan,claimed the UK’s defence ministry.

President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as Severodonetsk becomes a focal point in the war.

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The latest: President Biden signed a $40 billion package of new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine on Saturday while visiting South Korea, amid signs that the United States and its allies are preparing for a drawn-out conflict. Russia is attempting to gain control of the Donbas region, which includes Donetsk and Luhansk. A loss would be “devastating to their morale and strategic position.” Even a win could come with costly troop casualties and equipment losses. “All wars have to end.” He said he was encouraged that some communication channels with the Russians appear to be reopening. Mullen said it was significant that Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO, given their decades-long history of military nonalignment. It’s going to be visible. They “condemned Russia’s actions, and called for Russia to be held accountable for its atrocities.” Putin has called the invasion “a special military operation” and has denied that Russia is responsible for war crimes. Russia has denied committing war crimes during its invasion of Ukraine. Its representatives were not invited to this year’s gathering. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that fighting in eastern Ukraine is becoming increasingly bloody, with up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers killed each day.

Russia pounded dozens of targets in eastern Ukraine with airstrikes and artillery as ground forces attempted to encircle the Donbas city of Sievierod.

In shock, sometimes fighting off tears, civilians fleeing areas near the eastern front in the war in Ukraine described scenes of devastation as their towns and villages came under sustained attack from Russian forces. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian court is expected to sentence a Russian soldier on Monday in the first war crimes trial of the conflict. The trial in Kyiv seen as a public test of the Ukrainian judicial system's independence comes as international institutions conduct their own investigations into alleged abuses that have turned cities like Bucha and Mariupol into watchwords for destruction. Vadim Shishimarin, a 21-year-old Russian tank commander, has plead guilty to killing an elderly unarmed civilian in the northeast Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka on Feb. 28. In eastern Ukraine, the Russian air force hit four command centres, a communications point, an anti-aircraft missile system and 87 areas where troops and Ukrainian military equipment amassed as well as seven ammunition stores, the defence ministry said. Russia pounded dozens of targets in eastern Ukraine with airstrikes and artillery as ground forces attempted to encircle the Donbas city of Sievierodonetsk, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

Speaking to the World Economic Forum, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for tougher sanctions against Moscow and safe corridors for Ukrainian grain ...

An American delegation is scheduled to hold talks in The Hague this week on “responses to atrocities committed in Ukraine,” the State Department said. “Chinese planners must take the possibility of Japan getting involved into account when they plan and when they decide whether or not to attack Taiwan,” Mr. Michishita said. Wrapping up the event, Mr. Biden ignored shouted questions about what a military intervention in Taiwan would look like and whether he was prepared to put American troops on the ground. Mr. Biden had ignored the practiced imprecision of his predecessors with regard to China and Taiwan before in his presidency. President Biden said he would use military force to defend Taiwan if it were ever attacked by China, dispensing with the “strategic ambiguity” of past presidents. “My wish would actually be to keep the Druzhba pipeline out of the embargo entirely,” said another employee, who identified herself as the mother of three young children. Flattened by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, the arrival of the oil pipeline — its name, Druzhba, means friendship in Russian — and refinery in the late 1960s drew thousands of workers and their families, lured by secure jobs. The PCK refinery — the name is a nod to its East German roots as the state-owned “Petrolchemisches Kombinat,” or Petrochemical Combine — is owned by Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil company. The defendant sat in a glass cage, wearing the same blue-and-gray hoodie he has worn for every trial appearance, his head bowed as an interpreter whispered to him in Russian through an opening in the glass. This time it is a war that is already affecting the price of global food and oil supplies and contributing to surging inflation. “But we do not have many opportunities to protect his interests on the spot.” Sergeant Shishimarin, who had pleaded guilty at the start of the trial last week, was sentenced to life in prison.

The Russian military finally secured control over Mariupol in mid-May, when the last Ukrainian forces surrendered after a valiant resistance. Weeks of ...

That also means ratcheting up sanctions to accelerate the havoc coming to the Russian economy due to Putin’s disastrous decisions. That means continuing to provide the Ukrainians the means to defend their country and drive back the invading Russian army. Moreover, NATO could well decide to make the presence of alliance forces on its eastern flank (e.g., in the Baltic states and Poland) permanent rather than rotating. In that case, some of the advantages that favor the defense would accrue to the Russian military. Barring a total collapse of the Russian military (not to be excluded, but unlikely), it is difficult to see how Ukraine can muster the necessary leverage to regain Crimea. A senior Ukrainian official privately said in September 2014 that perhaps Kyiv should let the then-occupied part of Donbas go — “they don’t think like we do” — but he quickly added that no serious Ukrainian official could say that publicly and expect to survive. (This could also become a tragedy for countries around the world that depend on Ukrainian food exports that are now blockaded.) The West should support that position and reject the Kremlin’s attempt to redraw international borders by force of arms. Western countries will have to decide what to do about sanctions on Russia; some may wish to maintain sanctions even after a settlement, though the West should be sensitive to sanctions-easing if Kyiv says that is necessary to secure an otherwise acceptable deal. The multiple axes of attack suggested that the Russian military aimed to quickly capture the capital of Kyiv, depose the democratically-elected government, and occupy perhaps as much as the eastern two-thirds of Ukraine. U.S. officials see Russian President Vladimir Putin stubbornly digging in, discern no negotiating path in the near term, and expect a war of attrition, with the sides slugging it out but neither able to score a convincing victory. However the war concludes, an independent and sovereign Ukrainian state will remain on the map of Europe. The Kremlin has now focused on taking full control of the Donbas, a substantially downsized goal from its original invasion aims.

Boris Bondarev criticised the 'aggressive war unleashed' by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.

It comes at a time when Putin’s government has sought to crack down on dissent over the invasion. He suggested his case could become an example. A veteran Russian diplomat to the United Nations office in Geneva has handed in his resignation and sent a statement to foreign colleagues criticising the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.

A veteran Russian diplomat in Geneva has resigned over his country's invasion of Ukraine in a rare political protest from within the Russian foreign policy ...

“There are people who think the way that I think and see the situation for what it is,” he said. “Today of course we can see that there can be no negotiations, it’s just all-out war.” “Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not about diplomacy,” wrote the diplomat, a 20-year veteran of the Russian foreign ministry. “The decision was very simple,” said Bondarev. “When you see that your country is doing the worst things and being a civil servant you’re somehow related to that, it’s your decision just to terminate your connection with the government. And I don’t want to have any responsibility for what I don’t approve of.” Bondarev published the statement on his Facebook and LinkedIn accounts and also sent copies to diplomats and media outlets.

Things are not going to plan for Vladimir Putin. The once-feared Russian army has long since abandoned its goal of capturing Ukraine's capital Kyiv, ...

Putin, his first wife and two daughters returned to Leningrad in 1990 as the Soviet Union itself was falling apart. At times he appeared drunk and out of control in public. They passed then, but he did find his way in after graduating from Leningrad State University. But Putin is showing no sign of weakening. Initially, Putin sought to engage the West. In 2001, he addressed the German Bundestag in fluent German and spoke of Russia's place in Europe. He said Russia needed to do more to claim some form of victory in Donbas and the south after Ukraine had a taste of success in Kyiv and Kharkiv. In 1990, at the age of 38, Putin became an adviser to the Mayor of St Petersburg and gradually became a power player in the city's administration. "All of a sudden, we saw these very mysterious bombings in Moscow apartment buildings that had quite interesting links to the FSB … and all of a sudden we had to blame that on Chechnya," Sheftalovich said. Yet Britain's Ministry of Defence estimates 50,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded. "No-one will forget the lessons of World War II and there will be no place in the world for hangmen, executioners and the Nazis". Some Western intelligence sources suggest this number is too high. No matter how you look at it, Putin's "special military operation" — as he calls it — is far from achieving the goals he spelled out at the beginning of the invasion in his televised address to the nation, and the world, on February 24.

A veteran Russian diplomat has resigned over his country's “aggressive war”. Earlier, a Russian soldier was sentenced to life in prison.

Russia’s main investigative body said it intends to interrogate the Mariupol defenders to “identify the nationalists” and determine whether they were involved in crimes against civilians. At the Davos forum, Zelensky said sanctions against the Kremlin need to go further. They surrendered and were taken prisoner last week, at which point Moscow claimed the capture of Mariupol was complete. Shishimarin, a captured member of a tank unit, apologised to the man’s widow in court. Abraham, however, noted that following a order is not a defence under the law. Russian forces in Mariupol bombed a theatre where civilians were sheltering and struck a maternity hospital.

A diplomat at Russia's mission to the United Nations in Geneva has resigned over the war in Ukraine, writing that he has never been “so ashamed” of his ...

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The latest: President Biden signed a $40 billion package of new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine on Saturday while visiting South Korea, amid signs that the United States and its allies are preparing for a drawn-out conflict. “The Ministry has become my home and family. An online directory for the United Nations in Geneva lists Bondarev as counselor at the Russian Federation’s mission. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that dissent won’t be tolerated, saying in March that the Russian people can distinguish between “true patriots from scum and traitors.” “Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have already died just for this.”

As Monday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile attack last ...

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is waging “total war” and wants to “take away everything we have. · The leader says that Vladimir Putin is ...

“What we are likely to see is many more such cases as this conflict continues,” Basravi said from Kyiv. “We’ve got two pilots possibly being seen in court in the coming days. Therefore, one consideration was to no longer pay “any price” for oil, but to agree on upper limits, he said. The expediency of giving the status of the state language to the Crimean Tatar language, as is done in Crimea, we will discuss in detail at a meeting with the community,” he said. We say that our request is the real lives of many people who would not have died if we had received all the weapons we are asking for,” he said in his nighttime address. Zelenskyy made the comments in his nightly address on the eve of the three-month anniversary of the Russian invasion. And Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating more and more cases of what they’re calling alleged war crimes on a near-daily basis.” But at these times it is a sensitive subject and whatever you decide will create a lot of conflict,” said Djokovic, who is Serbian. I visited the@UkrInstitute, an organization that is preserving and promoting Ukraine’s vibrant & living culture, to underscore the Kremlin's war on Ukraine cannot erase what makes the country & its people so unique. He said the vast majority hit civilian targets. Including the right to life for Ukrainians”. Part of Putin’s war is an attempt to erase Ukrainian identity. Plus, we have a large community of Crimean Tatars living in our region.

A veteran Russian diplomat has resigned over his country's invasion of Ukraine as a Kyiv court sentences a Russian soldier to life in prison.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the west to intensify its economic sanctions against Russia as he said business leaders in Davos needed to decide whether “brute force” should rule the world. Starbucks is leaving the Russian market, bringing an end to nearly 15 years of business there. Kristalina Georgieva predicted that 2022 would be a tough year and declined to rule out a global recession if conditions worsened markedly. Zelenskiy gave an insight into the level of losses being sustained by Ukrainian forces in the Donbas, saying between 50 to 100 Ukrainians could be dying every day. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Vladimir Putin was the only Russian official he was willing to meet with to discuss how to end the war. Boris Bondarev, a counsellor at the Russian permanent mission to the UN in Geneva, wrote in a public statement: “Never have I been so ashamed of my country.”He confirmed he had submitted his letter of resignation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to address the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos via video on Monday. The speech comes as Ukrainian ...

On Saturday, a Russian Tulpan self-propelled heavy mortar destroyed the main bridge connecting Severodonetsk to government-controlled areas, making the defense of the embattled city even more difficult. Russia lost some 90 tanks and other armored vehicles in that attempt, according to drone footage, and has acknowledged the death of its 12th Engineers Brigade commander, among other casualties. The bloc is close to approving a new package of sanctions that would include an embargo on Russian crude oil, though Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is standing in the way. Mr. Zelensky said Sunday night that he is preparing for a week of maximum diplomatic activity as Ukraine looks for ways to increase the volume of its agricultural exports and fuel imports. Moscow’s current offensive focuses on a much narrower salient that includes Severodonetsk, the administrative center of Ukrainian-controlled Luhansk region, and nearby towns. But if he approves it, troops would be deployed only for the defense and security of the embassy, which lies within range of Russian missiles, U.S. officials said. President Biden has yet to be presented with the proposal. A verdict is expected Monday in the war-crimes trial of a Russian tank sergeant who admitted killing a civilian. His comments come after some European leaders have proposed offering Russia enough concessions to allow President Vladimir Putin to save face and end the war. Mr. Duda didn’t name which countries were pressing Ukraine to accept Russia’s demands. “Nothing should be decided about you, without you.” Thanks for joining us.