By Anastasiia Malenko and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Kyiv’s air force said, in the first known use in the war of such a powerful, nuclear-capable weapon with a range of thousands of kilometres. The air force reported the launch after Ukraine…
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – OCTOBER 17: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (R) welcomes Ukraine’s President … [+] Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrive for a joint press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images As Kyiv gets a green light to…
India is keenly observing any move by US President-elect Donald Trump to end the Russia-Ukraine war, with analysts saying a resolution could settle New Delhi’s conundrum of having to balance its relations with Moscow and the West. “If Americans and Russians can get along [after the war is over], it is great news for India,”…
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, North Korea will supply roughly enough troops to cover the average number of Russian losses in Ukraine each week, according to an analysis from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on Friday. The Russia-Ukraine war has raged on for more than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin…
The reported involvement of North Korean troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine would put China in a tight spot and could also lead to closer cooperation between the Nato countries and Northeast Asia, analysts said. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said there was evidence to support the claim that North Korean forces were in Russia,…
US President Joe Biden announced a US$425 million arms package for Kyiv on Wednesday in a call with President Volodymyr Zelensky, ahead of a farewell visit to Berlin to discuss Ukraine, the White House said. The package includes air defence and armoured vehicles, said a readout of the call, adding that Biden had briefed Zelensky…
A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Moscow while reporting from occupied east Ukraine has died in Russian detention, a Ukrainian official said Thursday. Victoria Roshchyna, who would have turned 28 this month, disappeared in August last year after travelling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report. She remained missing until April 2024, when her…
China sided with Russia in a row with the US-led West on Friday as the United Nations Security Council debated accountability for the 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines. It came as both Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is expected to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this month, and top diplomat…
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is set to visit China “in the coming days” against the backdrop of potential turning points in conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter. Two sources familiar with discussion about Baerbock’s plan to visit said the trip had been “largely confirmed”. They both…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland’s foreign affairs ministry voiced support for a Chinese-led peace plan to end the Ukraine war, saying on Saturday that its view on such efforts had significantly changed, a position Kyiv said was disappointing and illogical. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in its third year, the two sides to the…