The Kremlin’s read-out of Vladimir Putin’s phone call with US President Donald Trump appeared on its website at 8:15 p.m. Moscow time on March 18: Putin, the readout said, had agreed to a US cease-fire proposal to halt Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 30 days.
But…
Today, there is a lot of interesting news from the Russian Federation.
Here, Ukraine’s new domestically produced cruise missile has shown it can now strike further into Russian territory, reaching as far as St. Petersburg, Moscow, and the Caucasus oil fields. The debut of the long Neptune…
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said the UK “ideally . . . should not be having any boots on the ground” in Ukraine, in a sign the domestic political…
Russian forces launched a mass drone attack on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa late on March 20, injuring three people and damaging a high-rise apartment building and a shopping center, according to the regional governor, Oleh Kiper. He said there had been strikes in three locations that…
Russian drone strikes targeted civilian infrastructure in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, leaving at least three people injured and several districts of the city battling power cuts while Czech President Petr Pavel was visiting for talks with officials.
The head of the Odesa region’s…
As Ukraine’s frontline cities continue to come under attack, museums holding historical and cultural artifacts are working to relocate valuable collections to safer parts of the country.
“Physical damage is a threat because of air strikes,” says Olha Sahaydak, head of Ukraine’s Coalition…
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The Trump administration is seeking new terms for US access to critical minerals and energy assets in Ukraine, widening its economic demands on Kyiv as it pushes for a peace…
Serhii Kovalov doesn’t like sushi. Nor does the sushi chef at his restaurant in eastern Ukraine.
But when customers started asking for it, Mr. Kovalov navigated both enemy shelling and ordinary supply-chain issues to get fresh fish for Philadelphia rolls to his frontline town, Sloviansk.
Now, as…
President Donald Trump suggested during a call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States take ownership of Ukraine’s power plants as he seeks to bridge a wide divide between Moscow and Kyiv and secure a full cease-fire in Europe’s largest war in decades.
Trump…
The fate of thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia has been thrown into further uncertainty after the United States defunded an American research unit that helped locate them.
The United States has terminated financial support for the specialist team at Yale University’s…