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Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a public plea for Vladimir Putin to “stop this war” between Russia and Ukraine in an extraordinary video posted online by the actor. In the nine-minute clip posted on his Twitter account,…
There are reports that Russian forces have taken patients and medical staff of a hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol as hostages. According to the BBC, Mariupol’s deputy mayor Sergei Orlov said: We…
The UK is to impose sanctions on 370 more Russian individuals, including more than 50 oligarchs and their families with a combined net worth of £100bn, in the latest raft of measures against Vladimir Putin’s regime,…
The European Union has this morning formally agreed to the fourth package of sanctions, including an asset freeze and travel ban on Roman Abramovich. The full details are expected to be published in the Journal of the…
Russian airstrikes on the Kyiv apartment building leave two people dead. Two powerful explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv before dawn on Tuesday. Emergency services said two people died when an apartment…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has announced that it will rule this Wednesday in the case brought by Ukraine that Russia falsely justified its invasion by making accusations that Ukraine had engaged in…
Ukrainian authorities have denied accusations by the Russians after a Ukrainian missile allegedly exploded in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk killing 20 civilians, Lorenzo Tondo reports. On Monday, Russian…
Russian forces have damaged a high-voltage line connecting Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to the power grid, Ukraine’s state energy company Ukrenergo said. The head of Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskiy, said the…
Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba called on the west on Monday to supply Ukraine with weapons and apply more sanctions on Russia to help prevent other countries being dragged into a wider conflict. Ukraine has…
Russia’s defence ministry has admitted responsibility for the rocket attack on the International Centre for Peacekeeping & Security, a military base, near Lviv on Sunday. It said that the facility in Yavoriv was being…
In a move similar to that of Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment has also announced that it will suspend all of its business operations in Russia, following the country's military operation in Ukraine. According to…
The cyber hacking group Anonymous has published a message specifically designed to reach Russian citizens, allegedly urging Russians to rise up against Putin and remove him from power. According to a translation offered…
Ukraine’s minister of defence, Oleksii Reznikov, has called Russia’s missile strikes on the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security a “terrorist attack”. Reznikov added that “foreign instructors” work at the…
Barely a week after ban on Facebook in Russia, the country’s communications agency Roskomnadzor announced it will ban Instagram, too. While the Facebook ban cited “discrimination against Russian media,” this time, the…
A frozen goods warehouse caught fire due to Russian shelling in Brovary district, northeast of Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s interior ministry. The shelling took place in the village of Kvitneve at about 3.30 am local…
Several humanitarian corridors in Ukraine, including from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, will be open today for civilians to evacuate, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. In a video…
Local media in Ukraine report that two oil depots near Kyiv are on fire after the Russian attacks. One depot was hit in the town of Vasylkiv, 36 kilometres south of the capital, and another was hit in the village of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin shows no sign of being willing to engage in “serious diplomacy”, US vice president Kamala Harris said. Speaking during a visit in Romania, Harris said the US is committed to finding a…
Early morning shelling has hit two Ukrainian cities early this morning, according to regional authorities. Explosions were reported in Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine, near the Polish border, as well as in Dnipro, a major…
Vladimir Putin has said Russia must welcome volunteers who want to fight Ukrainian forces and help them to get to combat areas. Speaking to the Russian security council, Reuters reports that the Russian president said…
