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  • FILE: Erdogan also said he would review the NATO summit's results with Putin and Zelensky. Picture: @RecepTayyipErdogan/Facebook.com.

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to tell Putin to be 'architect of peace'

    Erdogan, who has been trying to broker peace between Moscow and Kyiv, made the comments while returning from a emergency Nato summit in Brussels.

    94 days ago
  • FILE: Russia is not backing down and insisted it has proof that the United States was involved in a biological weapons programme in Ukraine. Picture: Eric Baradat, Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Sputnik

    Washington and Moscow clash over 'nuclear conflict' in Ukraine

    Moscow has again called out the US for lying about its alleged biochemical programme in Ukraine.

    96 days ago
  • FILE: The surge in oil prices has been a driver of turmoil on world markets in recent weeks as demand surges owing to economic reopenings just as supplies are strained. Pictures:© phonlamaiphoto/123rf.com

    Stocks rise as oil extends rally on Russia embargo talk

    Both main crude contracts started the week by soaring more than seven percent on Monday as EU nations discussed following Washington and putting an embargo on Russian energy imports over its war in Ukraine.

    97 days ago
  • A man helps Ukrainian soldiers searching for bodies in the debris at the military school hit by Russian rockets the day before, in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on 19 March 2022.

    The latest developments you need to know about the war in Ukraine

    Ninety-six-year-old Holocaust survivor Boris Romantschenko is killed by Russian shelling of Kharkiv.

    97 days ago
  • A man helps Ukrainian soldiers searching for bodies in the debris at the military school hit by Russian rockets the day before, in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on 19 March 2022.

    Day 25: Russia accused of war crimes as Ukraine faces humanitarian catastrophe

    Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says the siege of Mariupol will go down in history as a war crime.

    99 days ago
  • FILE: This handout picture taken and released by the Russian Defence Ministry on 14 January 2022 shows Russian troops disembarking from a military cargo plane upon landing in Ivanovo after completing their mission in Kazakhstan. Picture: Handout/Russian Defence Ministry/AFP

    NATO conducts drills on Russia’s borders amid invasion in Ukraine

    NATO officials insist that the drills were planned a long time ago and that Russia was aware of them. 30,000 troops, 50 vessels, and 200 aircraft have been deployed by 27 member-states In Norway, which is a long-standing member of NATO.

    101 days ago
  • FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: Alexey NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP

    Putin accuses Ukraine of stalling talks: Kremlin

    Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the phone talks between Putin and Scholz tough but added that such contacts were still needed.

    101 days ago
  • A Ukraine soldier inspects the rubble of a destroyed apartment building in Kyiv on 15 March 2022, after strikes on residential areas killed at least two people. Picture: FADEL SENNA/AFP

    US President Joe Biden to press China to get in line over condemnation of Russia

    US President Joe Biden will warn his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he will face "costs" if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense Western sanctions.

    101 days ago
  • A Ukraine soldier inspects the rubble of a destroyed apartment building in Kyiv on 15 March 2022, after strikes on residential areas killed at least two people. Picture: FADEL SENNA/AFP

    Looking for the latest on Russia’s war in Ukraine? Here it is.

    Zelensky has been on a virtual tour of Western parliaments, each time receiving a standing ovation from MPs for his wartime leadership.

    102 days ago
  • A Ukraine soldier inspects the rubble of a destroyed apartment building in Kyiv on 15 March 2022, after strikes on residential areas killed at least two people. Picture: FADEL SENNA/AFP

    Ukrainian theatre sheltering 'more than 1,000' civilians bombed

    The latest assaults on civilians across Ukraine came as President Volodymyr Zelensky made a searing appeal for help to the US, which responded by pledging $1 billion in new weapons to fight Russia's invading army.

    102 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: @KremlinRussia_E/Twitter.

    Putin book tops UK bestsellers after Abramovich sued author

    Catherine Belton's "Putin's People", first published in 2020, "is the number one bestselling NF (non-fiction) paperback in the UK", William Collins Books publishing director Arabella Pike said in a tweet.

    103 days ago
  • A child wait to be evacuated from the city of Irpin, north of Kyiv, on 10 March 2022.

    The growing toll: Tears, fears and fury in Kyiv

    The black hole in the ground looked big enough to swallow a car but Lidiya Tikhovska was only looking at the spot where an ambulance worker said her son's remains lay.

    105 days ago
  • Ukraine army public affairs officer Valentin Yermolenko walks in front of a destroyed shoe factory following an airstrike in Dnipro on 11 March 2022. Picture: Emre Caylak/AFP

    While Biden vows no WWIII, MSF warns siege could spell ‘unimaginable tragedy’

    US President Joe Biden vowed that Russia would pay a "severe price" if it used chemical weapons in Ukraine, while also pledging to avoid provoking Moscow into "World War III".

    108 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Picture: @CyrilRamaphosa/Twitter.

    Ramaphosa: SA approached to mediate between Russia and Ukraine

    President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin earlier in the day and told him that the conflict should be resolved through mediation and negotiations.

    109 days ago
  • Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after a fight with Russian raiding groups. Picture: AFP

    Maternity hospital in Ukraine city of Mariupol demolished amid Russian invasion

    The city's municipality accuses Russian forces of attacking it.

    110 days ago
  • FILE: Senegalese President and head of the AU Macky Sall. Picture: Présidence Sénégal/AFP

    African Union calls for Ukraine truce in call with Putin

    After Russian launched its invasion on February 24, the AU issued a statement calling for Ukraine's territorial integrity and international law to be upheld.

    110 days ago
  • FILE: Macron spoke to Putin on Sunday for one hour and 45 minutes, the fourth time they had spoken since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Picture: AFP.

    Macron condemns Putin's 'moral cynicism' over Ukraine corridors

    He added that Putin's promises to protect civilians only so that they could flee towards Russia were "hypocritical".

    112 days ago
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    Putin blames Kyiv for failed Mariupol evacuations

    Putin "drew attention to the fact that Kyiv still does not fulfil agreements reached on this acute humanitarian issue," the Kremlin said in a statement, after two agreements to evacuate Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine fell through following allegations of ceasefire breaches.

    113 days ago
  • A protester holds a placard reading "Ukraine counts 15 nuclear power plants, Close the sky" during a demonstration against Russia's military invasion on Ukraine, in the French riviera city of Nice, on March 6, 2022. Picture: Valery Hache / AFP

    More than 1,100 detained in Russia for protesting against invasion of Ukraine

    Sunday marks 11 days since the assault the assault began.

    113 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin participates via video link in a ceremony launching a gold processing facility in Kyrgyzstan, in Moscow on 17 March 2021. Picture: Alexei Druzhinin/AFP

    Any countries imposing no-fly zone over Ukraine party to conflict: Putin

    "Any movement in this direction will be considered by us as participation in an armed conflict by that country," the Russian leader said during a meeting with Aeroflot employees.

    114 days ago
  • A man gestures in front of an evacuation train at Kyiv central train station on 4 March 2022.

    Russia opens corridor for Ukraine civilians to flee war's fiercest battles

    The evacuation will be seen as a prelude to a final assault that, if successful, would see the Russian army push north from occupied Crimea.

    114 days ago
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