Vladimir Putin Russia Ukraine war

The U.K. said that “many of these units are likely suffering from weakened morale.” Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that NATO is ...

The war is evil," he said during his visit to Ukraine, where he also met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. However, Russian state TV nightly has had guests suggest that Moscow use nuclear weapons in the conflict. Lavrov also said that negotiations continue between Russia and Ukraine "almost every day." An estimated 2,000 Ukrainian defenders and 1,000 civilians are holed up in the plant's vast underground network of bunkers, which are able to withstand airstrikes. The bank added that it was prepared to step in further to prevent inflation from spiking. "The lives of soldiers matter too. But the discussions as reported by the U.N. concerned civilians, not combatants. Lavrov — who has been sanctioned by the U.S., U.K. and Europe for his role in the war — reportedly said his country's "special operation" in Ukraine is "a response to what NATO was doing in Ukraine to prepare this country for a very aggressive posture against the Russian Federation." Lavrov said that figure included more than 300 Chinese civilians. All 27 member states must back the measure to be adopted. France has already sent 615 tons of equipment and aid to Ukraine, including generators for hospitals, ambulances and food. Here is a look at some of the devastation.

Russia has released video showing it is using a submarine in the Black Sea to launch cruise missile attacks on Ukraine, confirming earlier Ukrainian military ...

"The factory was damaged in the strike, but so is that apartment complex just behind me. A 54-year-old Ukrainian journalist was killed in the strike. An apartment complex was shredded by shrapnel, leaving those in the neighborhood shaken.

The Kremlin and the West appear to have embraced a broader clash over Ukraine, one that extends far beyond the grounds of the Donbas.

Nor is Putin likely to accept any demand to return it. Whether or not threats to use nuclear weapons or to invade new territories are realistic, they have proliferated just as Russia’s incursion into Ukraine has stagnated. At least three explosions were reported in the territory this week. “They said ‘that’s not our approach to this,’” Hamilton said. “Putin has learned over time that high-level threats really intimidate people.” He said the best-case scenario might involve a cease-fire and a “protracted line of control” with troops from both countries massed on both sides for years. “We’re in a different phase of the war now that we were in late February to early April, which was Russia thinking it was going to win the war really quickly and so the West sent just whatever it could whenever it could,” Alberque said. Nor are nuclear weapons the only menace that Moscow has wielded in the Ukraine context in recent days. The request followed remarks by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin this week that initially caused some disquiet among European allies. Rose Gottemoeller, former NATO deputy secretary general and a former U.S. arms control negotiator who served under both the Clinton and Obama administrations, said that the threat of a Russian nuclear conflict with the West had grown steadily under Putin. Speaking to reporters after a visit to Kyiv, Austin said the U.S. wanted to see Russia “weakened to the extent that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.” William Alberque, director of strategy, technology and arms control at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank, said the move showed how, for Russia, “all other nonmilitary instruments of power are now in play.”

More than one million Ukrainians have been 'evacuated' to Russia since the start of the invasion, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed.

He said: "Over the past years, the United States and its allies have done nothing to stop the intra-Ukrainian conflict... When asked what would happen if Russia start winning in eastern Ukraine, Sir Alex said: "It's clear that that is the Russian plan. In an interview with AP, Yuliia Fedusiuk, 29, the wife of Arseniy Fedusiuk, a member of the Azov regiment, said: "The lives of soldiers matter too. "On the sixth day, the electricity and the water were cut off... Speaking at a press briefing, Mr Kirby appeared to get emotional talking about the conflict, and said: "It’s hard to square his… That is obviously the plan. As former chancellor, Schroeder is entitled to several offices in the German parliament and a budget for staff. “The occupiers ‘liberated’ Mariupol from its historical and cultural heritage. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Alex said: "Putin does not have a reverse gear, he never has. Skabeyeva addresses the camera with relish: “The Ukrainians are crumbling in front of us! "The victims' hands were tied, cloths were covering their eyes and some were gagged. In a studio with enormous screens showing images of purportedly fallen Ukrainian soldiers, guests stand in a circle.

A small number of civilians were evacuated Saturday from the giant Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, according to an eyewitness report.

The Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine is founded on a false retelling of history. He's not the only strongman revising the past.

“Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth,” Winston is told in Orwell’s novel. The mayor of the Ukrainian town of Melitopol has recounted how, in March, he was abducted by Russian troops who told him they had come to “free Ukraine from Nazis.” Russian soldiers scrawled the words for the children on a missile that hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk—a grim irony, as that very strike killed children among the many evacuees who were waiting for a train. The impulse to rewrite history and appeal to glorious myths to rally popular support is not limited to autocrats. The Kim family’s fiction dominates daily life in North Korea. On a reporting trip there in 2016, I saw the enormous “Arch of Triumph” built in the heart of the capital, which is engraved with the date “1945” to commemorate the first Kim’s purported victory over Japan. His grandson’s top officials drive around in a fleet of gleaming black Mercedes with the prefix “727” on their license plates to mark the supposed victory over the U.S. on July 27, 1953, the date the Korean War armistice was signed. “How can you control memory?” One might well ask the same question of Putin, Xi, and Kim and their own efforts to control the past. Putin quotes from the Bible and invokes the Great Patriotic War to underline the righteousness of his cause as he insists that he is fighting “ for a world without Nazism.” There is evidence that this approach is working. He calls the Ukrainian leadership “fascists” to remind his compatriots of the enemy they faced, insisting that they are confronting a resurgent menace. Though China’s version of history is at least credible, if tailored to serve the Communist Party’s needs, across the border in North Korea, the Kim regime relies on an absurd fiction and outright lies. Instead, Putin has sealed off the official version of history from scrutiny, passing new laws that make it a criminal offense to challenge the authorities’ account or to question the true scale of Soviet heroism. Listening to Putin’s speech on the morning of his invasion, when he declared that he was saving innocents from “genocide” and compared his actions to the heroic struggle Russians waged during World War II, my initial response was disbelief. “Who controls the past controls the future,” he responds obediently. The Russian leader’s invasion of Ukraine is founded on a false retelling of history.

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy switched into Russian in his nightly video address to urge Russian soldiers not to fight in Ukraine ...

“We are stuck because of their desire to play games all the time,” Lavrov said. “(We have) explained … what is the mechanism for them to monitor how the humanitarian corridors are announced.” “The constant brutal bombardments, the constant Russian strikes on infrastructure and residential areas show that Russia wants to empty this territory of all people. However, Russian state TV nightly has had guests who suggest that Moscow use nuclear weapons in the conflict. France has been coy about its contribution in defensive weapons, but Macron recently mentioned Milan anti-tank missiles and a delivery of truck-mounted Caesar cannons among “consequential equipment.” They seek shelter in their basements whenever the shelling starts. About 20 mostly elderly people boarded a minivan amid the sounds of outgoing artillery and explosions in the distance. The cost for a five-year credit default swap on Russian debt was $5.84 million to protect $10 million in debt. “We know that (the buses) reached the town and then came under fire from an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group,” Khanatov said. It said the reconstruction of further transmission lines in and around Kyiv remains underway. The United Nations has been attempting to broker an evacuation in the port city where some 100,000 civilians remain. They don’t tell them about the new losses the generals expect,” Zelenskyy said late Saturday.

Analysts say both sides appear ready to dig in for a protracted conflict that is showing increasing signs of spilling beyond the battlefield.

"The building of one of Kharkiv's hospitals was damaged," the service said in a Telegram post. "As a result of the shelling, the concrete structures and window frames of the technical floor of the hospital were partially destroyed. "The enemy is shelling all the free cities of the region, trying to break through in three directions — Rubizhne, Popasna, Hirske community," Haidi said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has insisted since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24 that sanctions needed to be strengthened and could not be part of negotiations. “There are no new people coming to join the volunteers, only leaving,” she said. There are traces of torture on the corpses, as well as gunshot wounds to various parts of the body." The country and Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which contains six of Ukraine’s nuclear reactors, has been under Russian control since March 4. In March, before the Russians took control of it, the world watched as the nuclear plant came under fire by the Kremlin’s forces, though it sustained limited damage. Most of the gas stations NBC News passed on the nearly 300-mile journey from Kyiv to Odesa on Saturday all flashed zero next to the various types of gas, indicating that they had nothing to offer. The police said the "victims’ hands were tied, cloth was wrapped around their faces to close their eyes, and some men had gags in their mouths. About 20 mostly elderly people boarded a minivan amid the sounds of outgoing artillery and explosions in the distance. " In any dialogue, and even more so in a strategic dialogue, it is necessary, at a minimum, to have an adequately tuned partner.

As Russian forces prepare for what Ukrainian officials say could be an "even bigger" offensive in the east, shelling continues to impact those living in the ...

There were dead people lying on the ground," she said. They don’t tell them about the new losses the generals expect,” Mr Zelenskyy said. Ukraine has not directly claimed responsibility for a spate of such incidents on Russian territory. By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller 'Was it worth it?... By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller

Ukraine shelling kill and injure e own civilians inside di southern region of Kherson, Russia claim on Sunday.

"A poison dey run through our democracy... Inside di town of Dobropillia for Donetsk, di shockwave from one strike on Saturday blow for di windows of one apartment building and leave a large hollow in di yard. Biden hail di courage of journalists wey dey cover di Russian invasion of Ukraine inside comments for di White House Correspondents' Association dinner inside Washington. Palamar say Russia and Ukraine dey respect one local ceasefire, and he hope say di evacuated civilians dem go move dem go di Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia to di northwest. Ukraine and di West say Russia launch one unprovoked war of aggression. Di United States and dia European friends don impose sweeping punishment on Russia economy and dey supply Ukraine with weapons and humanitarian support. President Zelenskiy say Russia dey "gather additional forces for new attacks against our military in di east of di knori" and dey "try to increase pressure inside Donbas". Moscow call dia actions a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and clear am of anti-Russian nationalism wey dey provoked by di West. Moscow assault inside di south aim na partly to link di area with Crimea as dem dey push for complete control of Ukraine eastern Donbas region. "We dey get civilians out of di wreckage with ropes - ina di elderly, women and children." Moscow don turn dia focus to Ukraine south and east afta dem fail to capture di capital Kyiv inside one nine-week assault. Ukraine shelling kill and injure e own civilians inside di southern region of Kherson, Russia claim on Sunday.

Rather than pull back at that threat to unleash Moscow's nuclear bombs, US President Joe Biden doubled down on US support for Ukraine. The US$33 billion he ...

It is currently waging a proxy war with Russia - one that poses very real risks of escalation," he wrote. "Ultimately, the only options worse than a proxy war are a cheap Russian victory in Ukraine - or a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States," he said. And instead of saying, as it did in February, that it wants only to help Ukraine survive, Washington now says its goal in the war is to debilitate Russia for the long term. "We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine," US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said after a visit to Kyiv last week. "It shows the desperation that Russia is feeling about their abject failure in being able to do what they set out to do" in Ukraine, Mr Biden said Wednesday. WASHINGTON (AFP) - In rallying global arms supplies and asking Congress for US$33 billion (S$46 billion) more to support Ukraine, Washington is choosing to ignore Mr Vladimir Putin's threats to use nuclear arms, and instead is openly testing the Russian leader's limits.