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The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has afforded Russia’s foreign minister the honour of a meeting as Sergei Lavrov praised India’s refusal to condemn the Ukraine invasion. Lavrov, who is visiting the country,…
Non-white students who have fled Ukraine have been detained by EU border authorities in what has been condemned as “clearly discriminatory” and “not acceptable”. An investigation by The Independent, in partnership with…
Russia has 'increased intensity of strikes on Chernihiv since promising to cut back operations', mayor says In an interview with CNN, Atroshenko hit out at Russia’s claim that it planned to “drastically reduce” its…
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on Friday slammed the west for discriminating against Russian culture, comparing the treatment of Russian cultural figures with that of the “cancelled” Harry Potter author JK…
The music streaming platform Spotify has suspended services in Russia. A company spokesperson said that while it was important to “try to keep our service operational in Russia to provide trusted, independent news and…
Local officials in the besieged city of Mariupol have said that at least 300 people are known to have been killed in the bombing on 16 March of the Drama Theatre. About 1,300 were believed to have been sheltering the…
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko thanks the Americans and Brits for providing new military aid, which will allow Ukraine to better protect its airspace from Russian aggression. Klitschko made this in a video address released…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, announces the search engine will ‘down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation following the invasion of Ukraine. In his series of tweets, he made it clear that the…
Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has arrived in Antalya, Turkey, for negotiations with Russian foreign minister Lavrov. In just under one hour the pair will meet in the highest-level meeting between the two…
Ukraine says Russia has agreed to ceasefire on humanitarian corridors from 9am to 9pm The Ukrainian deputy prime minister has said that Russian armed forces have agreed to stop firing in areas of humanitarian corridors…
The oil giant Shell has apologised after buying a shipment of Russian oil last week at a discounted price as it pledged to end its relationship with oil, gas and petroleum from the country, reports Reuters. Chief…
The Ukrainian government says the first stage of evacuation from Sumy has begun Footage from the humanitarian corridor in Sumy, shared by the Ukrainian government, which says the first stage of the evacuation has begun:…
