KYIV, April 4 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Istanbul for “substantive” talks on security issues with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, Zelenskiy said on Saturday. “We are working to strengthen our partnership to ensure real protection of people’s lives, advance stability and guarantee security in our Europe, as well as in the…
KYIV, April 3 (Reuters) – Russia is conducting a rolling aerial attack on Ukraine since Thursday evening, Ukraine’s air force said on Friday, adding that a large number of enemy drones were in Ukrainian airspace. The bombardment is the second time this week Russia has followed a overnight drone barrage with heavy daytime attacks, a…
KYIV, April 3 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the frontline situation for Ukraine was the best in 10 months, adding that Kyiv’s troops had foiled a Russian offensive last month. “The offensive they were planning for March was thwarted by the actions of our armed forces. That is why the Russians will now simply…
MOSCOW, April 3 (Reuters) – Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful Security Council, said on Friday that Moscow should drop its “tolerant attitude” towards Ukraine’s possible EU membership. “The EU is no longer just an economic union. It can transform, and rather quickly, into a full-blown military alliance, one overtly hostile to Russia, and…
KHARKIV, Ukraine, April 3 (Reuters) – Russian forces maintained a day-long barrage of drone strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on Thursday, injuring at least two people, local officials said. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov posted reports on Telegram throughout the day and well into the evening, noting strikes in four city districts. One city…
April 2 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday offered to provide Ukraine’s expertise in dealing with freedom of navigation in the Black Sea to countries considering how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open amid conflict in the Middle East. Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, said Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha had taken…
MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) – Students across Russia are being offered large financial incentives to join drone units fighting in Ukraine as operators and engineers, while companies in Russia’s central Ryazan region have been given quotas to sign up workers for the army, documents show. The recruitment effort, which comes as Russian forces continue to…
Russian soldiers at home have been killing, maiming, raping and looting at record rates since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s garrison military courts have seen a more than tenfold increase in murder cases involving servicemen in the past few years. They received 729 such cases between 2022 and 2025, compared to…
ImaWikimedia.ge Credit: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, Russia’s oil story has taken a sharp and unexpected turn. What initially looked like a financial lifeline driven by global tensions is now colliding with a new and costly threat from Ukraine, creating ripple effects that extend far beyond energy markets and into the global automotive ecosystem. When…
MOSCOW, April 1 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy should have taken the difficult decision to withdraw his forces from the Donbas area “yesterday” in order to end what it called the “hot phase” of the war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comment a day after Zelenskiy said…