Russian strikes killed two people and wounded eight others in Ukraine, local authorities said Thursday, while Russia announced that one person had been killed in a Ukrainian attack. In Russia’s southwestern Samara region, a Ukrainian strike killed one person, the regional governor Vyacheslav Fedorischev said on Telegram Thursday. KYIV: Russian strikes killed two people and…
Talks to end the war in Ukraine have made “a lot of progress” and are “down to one issue” between Kyiv and Moscow, US special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Thursday ahead of a trip to Russia. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (HT File Photo) “I think we’ve got it down…
A power struggle has emerged between the two men Donald Trump has dispatched to end the war in Ukraine, according to reports. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, is understood to have become frustrated with Steve Witkoff, Mr Trump’s peace envoy, for attempting to cut him out of peace talks. In November, Mr Witkoff,…
Dec. 20 (UPI) — Officials for the European Union have agreed to loan $105 billon to Ukraine to help it stay financially solvent over the next two years amid Russian attacks in the Odesa region. The money is in lieu of an allocation to Ukraine from frozen Russian assets equal to nearly $246 billion and…
United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday (local time) that the ongoing war in Ukraine risks escalating into a ‘world war’ with as many as 25,000 people, both soldiers and civilians, dying last month and that he would like to “see the killing stop”. Donald Trump also said that the United States is not…
Russia has responded with mockery to an alleged comment by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to European counterparts expressing mistrust at the US envoys negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. “Dear Merz, you are not even in the game,” Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X. “You disqualified yourself by warmongering, peace sabotage,…
Published on: Dec 04, 2025 02:28 pm IST Putin’s remarks come after a marathon meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as part of the negotiations to end the Ukraine war. Russian President Vladimir Putin said his five-hour talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war in Ukraine were “necessary” and “useful” but also “difficult…
By Euronews Published on 16/11/2025 – 8:21 GMT+1 •Updated 16:21 Russia has finalised development of its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a weapon that Western intelligence assesses could pose a significant threat to NATO defences, according to a classified alliance document. The missile, known to NATO as SSC-X-9 Skyfall, can reach speeds of more than 900 kilometres…
Nov. 7 (UPI) — China officially launched its latest aircraft carrier equipped with an advanced launch system that allows fighter planes to take off with heavier payloads — technology that until now was exclusive to the U.S. Navy. Chinese state TV said Friday that a commissioning ceremony for the Fujian this week at the People’s…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 100 people gathered at a church in Kyiv on Monday to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed when a Russian drone struck their car in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Both 43-year-old war correspondent Olena Hubanova, who worked under the pseudonym Alyona Gramova, and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin were killed on Thursday, Oct….