Sept 25 (Reuters) – Shelling hit southern Ukraine late on Saturday, while Russia sought to defend its seven-month war even as it moves to escalate the conflict with the expected annexation of regions in the east and south that its forces have seized. Ukraine and Western countries say referendums on joining Russia in territories Russia...
BRUSSELS, Sept 22 (Reuters) – The European Union is looking at an oil price cap, tighter curbs on high-tech exports to Russia and more sanctions against individuals, diplomats said on Thursday, in response to what the West condemned as a new escalation in Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The 27-nation EU was spurred into action by...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Thursday that talk of a nuclear conflict is “totally unacceptable” and effectively warned that so-called referenda in areas under Russian control would be annexation. Referendums on joining Russia are due to take place from Friday until Tuesday...
Aug 22 (Reuters) – Russian forces pressed on with their offensive across several Ukrainian regions on Monday, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned of the potential for more serious attacks ahead of Ukraine’s 31st anniversary of independence from Soviet rule. Artillery shells rained down on Nikopol, a city near Zaporizhzhia – Europe’s biggest nuclear plant, while...
KYIV, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Russia reported fresh Ukrainian drone attacks on Friday evening, a day after explosions erupted near military bases in Russian-held areas of Ukraine and Russia itself, apparent displays of Kyiv’s growing ability to pummel Moscow’s assets far from front lines. The latest incidents followed huge blasts last week at an air...
MOSCOW:Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, discussing various aspects of the situation around Ukraine, the Kremlin said in a statement on Friday. Putin stressed that the systematic shelling by the Ukrainian military on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant creates risk of a large-scale catastrophe...
Aug 8 (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant at the weekend. “Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing,” Guterres told a news conference...
BRUSSELS/LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) – The European Union told member states on Wednesday to cut gas usage by 15% until March as an emergency step after President Vladimir Putin warned that Russian supplies sent via the biggest pipeline to Europe could be reduced further and might even stop. Deliveries via Nord Stream 1, which accounts...
MOSCOW, July 8. /TASS/. Western countries do not need Russia as a country, this is precisely why they have been supporting separatism and terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “Even the very idea of Russia’s possible integration into that North Atlantic alliance at a stage of our, as it seemed then, cloudless relations...