Ukraine

Despite Russia’s decision to withdraw from a historic agreement intended to solve a worldwide food crisis, cargo ships filled with grain and other agricultural supplies departed Ukrainian ports on Monday. A website that monitors marine activity...

The UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that it will this week carry out an “independent verification” of Russian allegations that two sites in Ukraine are producing so-called dirty bombs. Russia has accused Ukraine of preparing...

Kiev charged Russia on Monday with deliberately delaying the arrival from Turkey of more than 165 cargo ships bound for Ukrainian ports to load with grain. The Ukrainian foreign ministry claimed that Russian inspectors “have been...

France, Britain, and Germany called for an “impartial” investigation into Iranian drones in a letter to the United Nations on Friday. The West says Russia is using these drones in the war in Ukraine. “We would...

On Friday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko insisted that Minsk was not preparing to enter the Ukraine conflict during a visit to inspect drones at a military center in the west of the country. The leader, who...

The United States said Thursday that President Vladimir Putin’s imposition of martial law in annexed Ukrainian territories showed his claim people wanted to join Russia was a “lie.” “President Putin annexed these regions claiming that there...

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy facilities had rendered the country’s power grid a “battlefield”, spurring a new wave of Ukrainians fleeing to Europe. “Russia’s leadership has given the order to...

The United States will send an additional $725 million in military assistance to Ukraine, the State Department and Pentagon announced Friday. The aid comes “in the wake of Russia’s brutal missile attacks on civilians across Ukraine,”...

Ukraine has received the first Iris-T defence system from Germany, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said. “IRIS-Ts from (Germany) are already here. (American) NASAMS are coming. This is only the beginning. And we need more,”...

Global finance chiefs were expected to discuss a proposed price cap on Russian oil and support for Ukraine on Wednesday as the conflict takes center stage during the IMF’s annual meetings. Finance ministers and central bankers...