Ukraine aims to produce about 1 million first-person view (FPV) drones this year. (File) Kyiv: Ukraine and Britain have signed a framework agreement to cooperate in the defence and arms production sector, officials said in Kyiv, part of a wartime effort to build up Ukraine’s domestic weapons industry by working with allies. The document was … Read more
Reactor No. 6 is currently shut down, according to the plant. Moscow: The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station said on Monday that a Ukrainian drone was shot down over the roof of Reactor No. 6. “Today, a kamikaze drone was shot down over the plant. It fell on the roof of Unit 6,” the plant … Read more
Russia has launched hundreds of criminal cases against individuals who oppose Ukraine war. Moscow: A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a journalist to two years in prison for denouncing Moscow’s full-scale military offensive on Ukraine, as police in Moscow detained five other reporters over a 24-hour period. Russia has made on-the-ground reporting increasingly dangerous and … Read more
VIENNA — Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-painted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. The portraits were completed Wednesday on the wall behind the monument, which was already painted in Ukraine’s blue … Read more
Putin has acknowledged that “radical Islamists” conducted the bloody assault (File) Russia on Tuesday sought to shift blame for the Moscow concert hall attack onto Ukraine and its Western backers, despite the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the massacre of at least 139 people. The Kremlin’s security services have been scrambling to explain how … Read more
US top official Jake Sullivan and Ukrainian President’s chief of staff met after press conference. Kyiv: A top US official said Wednesday that Washington could not predict when a vital $60-billion military aid package for Ukraine would be passed in Congress, as Volodymyr Zelensky called for Western air defences after a Russian missile attack killed … Read more
Journalism is often referred to as the first draft of history, especially when covering war and international conflicts. “Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany” explores the challenges the world’s largest news organization faced in trying to balance journalistic ethics with ability to cover World War II within the confines of a dictatorship. … Read more
A group of men from Punjab and Haryana, who have claimed that they were tricked into joining the Russian Army and fighting the war in Ukraine, have put out a new video, doubling down on their request for help. The video shows six men, dressed in military-style winter jackets with hoods. The location tag is … Read more
Friday’s attack was just the latest in a series of fatal barrages between Kyiv and Moscow Odesa: Ukraine said Friday that Russian forces had pounded the Black Sea port city of Odesa with missiles, killing more than a dozen people including a paramedic and a rescue worker. AFP journalists on the scene saw bodies covered … Read more
UN also voiced concern about the continued use of explosive weapons in civilians areas Geneva: Russia is continuing to commit serious rights violations and war crimes in Ukraine, including “systematic” torture and rape, United Nations investigators said on Friday. Moscow has been waging war on Ukraine for more than two years and has recently made … Read more
