Russia Ukraine war

President Joe Biden told the Quad Summit in Tokyo the world is "navigating a dark hour in our shared history" and that President Vladimir Putin is "trying ...

So the Quad has a lot of work ahead of us,” he said. And the innocent civilians have been killed in the streets and millions of refugees are internally displaced, as well as exiled. The LinkedIn profile describes Bondarev as a veteran of Russian diplomatic service, with expertise in arms control and nonproliferation. Instead of unbiased information, impartial analysis and sober forecasting, there are propaganda clichés in the spirit of Soviet newspapers of the 1930s," the post read. The New York Times confirmed the receipt of a resignation sent by email to diplomats in Geneva. "Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not about diplomacy. Once a top-level US counter-terrorism operative who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he says his team uses decentralized, “small group tactics” to fight Russian forces and were among the first to witness Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians. "Despite the difficult circumstances of Covid-19, we have increased mutual coordination in several areas such as vaccine delivery, climate action, supply chain resilience, disaster response and economic cooperation," he said. "For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on February 24 of this year," Boris Bondarev wrote on a social media post, referencing the starting date of the invasion. "The US and India are going to continue consulting closely on how to mitigate these negative effects," Biden said. Ukrainian officials and industry sources have told CNN that Russian forces in occupied areas have emptied several silos and trucked the grain south. "It is really important, that the whole world does not beg Russia, no matter the circumstance, or to make concessions to Russia," he said.

As the Russia-Ukraine war entered day 88, invading troops escalated their attacks on east and southern Ukrainian cities. Meanwhile, Ukraine's president ...

In an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty monthly, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev stated that terrorist organisations are frequently used by the US as a geopolitical tool, particularly against Russia. Patrushev used a proverb to describe Western countries' attempts to accuse Russia of state-level terrorism. In a tweet Kuleba asked the allies to “speed up deliveries of weapons and ammunition, especially MLRS (multiple rocket launch systems), long-range artillery, APCs (armoured personnel carriers)“. A Ukrainian official from the Russian-controlled port city of Mariupol said that officials have discovered at least 200 bodies in the rubble of a ruined high-rise building. He then asked the allies to “speed up deliveries of weapons and ammunition, especially MLRS (multiple rocket launch systems), long-range artillery, APCs (armoured personnel carriers)." He asked the countries not to buy Ukraine's stilen grain and become accomplices to Russian crimes. Turkey’s foreign ministry has said in a statement that the Turkish officials will meet with Swedish and Finnish delegations in Ankara tomorrow. Head of the UN World Food Programme called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to reopen ports in Ukraine as he mulled the looming food crisis globally, and critical food shortage. Her remark came after a meeting with French Secretary of State for European Affairs Clement Beaune. The two counterparts discussed formalisation of Ukraine’s application to join the 27-member bloc, Russia's war in Ukraine, and the humanitarian aid. He also said the world is on the verge of a financial collapse. He said that a conscript of the Ukrainian National Guard inflicted irreparable losses on the enemy on May 23, while completing combat missions in the Zaporozhye region for the second time in a month. Ukrainian prosecutor general's office has charged Russian military and a Russian mercenary group as suspects in what it said the murder of a Ukrainian village mayor, Olha Sukhenko, and two of his family members. Zelenskyy stated that he continued his conversation with Charles Michel on the eve of the European Council extraordinary meeting on May 30-31. The National Guard of Ukraine's press department stated that on Monday, May 23, a Ukrainian soldier shot down the second aggressor plane in a month in the Zaporozhye region.

Russian missiles also damaged railway infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on May 23. Sloviansk. Russian troops shelled the eastern city of Sloviansk with ...

Europe is Ukraine's largest trading partner, while Ukraine is the EU's 15th largest trading partner. There are several bomb shelters beneath the plant, according to the head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhiy Haidai. Overall, Russia’s war has killed 314 people in Luhansk Oblast as of May 24. The move is intended to support Ukraine's economy as it defends itself against Russian invasion forces. Ukraine’s direct and indirect losses due to Russian's invasion has already reached about $1 trillion. At least 3,942 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s invasion, according to the UN. About 4,591 civilians have been injured during the war.

Russian troops are advancing in eastern Ukraine, pounding key cities and aiming "to destroy everything there", President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

As the war entered its fourth month on Wednesday, Russian forces were relentlessly bombarding the industrial city of Severodonetsk while attempting its encirclement, a key goal of recent fighting in the Donbas region. Russian troops are advancing in eastern Ukraine, pounding key cities and aiming "to destroy everything there", President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, as Moscow signalled it was digging in for a long war against its neighbour. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday accused Russia of deliberately bombarding grain warehouses across Ukraine and weaponizing food supplies.

Fighting · Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is waging “total war” and wants to “take away everything we have. · Ukrainian forces have “ ...

Including the right to life for Ukrainians.” - The US and the UK accused Russia of spreading misinformation and conducting cyberattacks to “manipulate public opinion about their war”, UK Deputy ambassador to the UN James Roscoe said. - “Part of Putin’s war is an attempt to erase Ukrainian identity,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his visit to the Ukrainian Institute for America. - Russian nationalist figures are calling for further mobilisation in Ukraine due to criticism of Moscow’s failing “special military operation”, the Institute for the Study of War said. - Veteran Russian diplomat to the United Nations office in GenevaBoris Bondarev has resigned, criticising the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, and said that “never have I been so ashamed of my country”. - Ukrainian forces have “liberated” 24 settlements in the Kharkiv region, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces said.

Invasion in 'most active phase', says Ukraine; Russian forces take control of three Donetsk regions; 200 bodies found in Mariupol basement.

Turkish officials will meet with Swedish and Finnish delegations in Ankara on Wednesday to discuss the Nato bids by the two Nordic countries. Navalny lambasted President Vladimir Putin during court hearing,casting him as a madman who had started a “stupid war” in Ukrainebased on lies. Researchers at the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found thatonly 10% of respondents found it acceptable for Ukraine to concede territory to achieve peace. At least 1,000 Ukrainian fighters, including members of the Azov battalion, were transferred to Russian-held territorylast week after the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol was taken by Russian forces. It is getting worse with every day and even with every hour,” said governor Sergiy Gaidai. “They are simply eliminating Severodonetsk from the earth.” Russia’s military campaign in Ukrainehas entered its most active phase,according to Ukraine’s defence ministry spokesperson, Oleksandr Motuzyanyk. Battles being fought in eastern Ukraine could determine the country’s fate, he added.

Ukrainian officials said that they expect devastation in Sievierodonetsk, where civilians have no electricity or running water. Diplomats from Finland and ...

Many of them lost their homes eight years ago in the war in eastern Ukraine, and now have lost everything a second time, he said. But as the teams gathered at police headquarters in Lysychansk to plan the next evacuation, they said the latest delay was caused by a group of evacuees themselves who were demanding extra assurances. The fins of rockets stuck out of craters in the asphalt. Ukraine has said it hoped to bring the captured fighters home in a prisoner exchange, but Moscow has sent signals that some may be charged with war crimes. “Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome,” he said. “Taiwan has sent delegations to Israel, Singapore, Finland, Sweden, some of the Baltic States. Now the situation is far more serious and far more urgent. And as it has in Ukraine, the U.S. government could also supply intelligence to enhance the lethality of the weapons, even if it refrains from sending troops. The president asserted on Monday that the United States had a “commitment” to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan — the third time he has made such remarks during his presidency. But other, lesser-known places have been pummeled in the conflict, too, and information about them has been hard to obtain because of fierce fighting as Moscow tries to seize territory in Ukraine’s east. Russia’s intense bombardment has killed and wounded many people in the eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman, according to the mayor. “The situation in the city is very difficult,” he said, during a broadcast on Ukrainian television. Aid groups, potential hosts and Ukrainians say that the program is full of pitfalls, including a difficult application process and significant delays in visa processing.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has effectively halted all maritime trade at Ukrainian ports, according to declassified US intelligence, blocking grain exports ...

A third map provides a current visualization of the density of Russian naval vessels clustered in the Black Sea off Ukraine’s coast, highlighting “hotbeds of activity,” according to the US official. The map analyzes the density of ships coming in and out of Ukrainian ports before and after the start of the conflict, showing an almost total drop-off of commercial traffic to ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov after the start of the invasion. In the months since Russia moved to invade in February, it has established an “effective blockade” in the northern third of the Black Sea, according to a US official who provided a declassified map of the region to CNN on the condition of anonymity.