FAR WESTERN UKRAINE (AP) — Precious few choices are available to Alexander, a 26-year-old Russian soldier, since his capture: Clothes, meals and the hours of his day are rigidly accounted for in the camp for prisoners of war. But Ukraine allows Alexander to call home to his family in Kursk, a Russian city about 60 […]
Almost 8,000 Ukrainian residents had been evacuated from the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine as of Wednesday, May 15, amid Russia’s offensive in the region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. Footage released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine shows the evacuation of elderly residents and animals from villages and towns in the Kharkiv […]
Fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces has decimated the village of Ocheretyne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Drone footage obtained by AP, a US news agency, shows that most houses and apartment buildings in Ocheretyne are damaged beyond repair. Not a single person is seen in the clip. Moscow’s army has launched a costly – […]
BERLIN (AP) — The public prosecutor general’s office in Munich on Monday took over the investigation into the stabbing deaths of two Ukrainian men in southern Germany because of a possible political motivation for the crime, German news agency dpa reported. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the […]
Two Ukrainian men who were stabbed to death in the southern German state of Bavaria, allegedly by a Russian citizen, were members of the armed forces, according to information from Kiev. The two men had been in Germany for medical rehabilitation after sustaining injuries during the war, Ukrainian media reported. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba instructed […]
Two Ukrainian men who were stabbed to death in the southern German state of Bavaria, allegedly by a Russian citizen, were members of the armed forces, according to information from Kiev. The two men had been in Germany for medical rehabilitation after sustaining injuries during the war, Ukrainian media reported. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba had […]
A Russian man has been arrested after two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany. The two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36-years-old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed at a shopping centre in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. Shortly after the killings on Saturday evening, […]
KHARKIV, Ukraine—After months of infighting on Capitol Hill, President Joe Biden has finally been able to sign off on a huge new $61 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Delays to the bill, which got bogged down in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, were widely blamed for impacting Kyiv’s ability to defend itself from Russian […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky called in an Easter Sunday message for Ukrainians to defend themselves against Russian aggression. “Now there is no night or day when Russian terror does not try to break our lives,” Zelensky said in a post written in English on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Ukraine came under Russian attack […]
More than 1,000 seriously injured or ill Ukrainians have received medical treatment in Germany since the beginning of the Russian war in February 2022. In addition to 692 soldiers, civilians, including children, were among the patients, the Interior Ministry and Health Ministry announced on Tuesday. So far, 3,137 patients have been admitted in hospitals throughout […]
Six Ukrainian citizens were injured when a car drove into a crowd in Szczecin, Poland, on 1 March. Source: Oleksandr Plodystyi, the Ukrainian Consul in Gdańsk, in a comment for Ukrinform, as reported by European Pravda Details: Plodystyi said that four Ukrainian women and a man, aged between 20 and 42, as well as a […]
Sri Lankan authorities said it would scrap free long-term visas for Russian and Ukrainian tourists. The move followed controversy caused by a Russian-organized “whites only” party. Russian tourists have been a major boost to the struggling Sri Lankan economy. Sri Lanka has scrapped free long-term visa extensions for Russians and Ukrainians who headed to the country […]