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The weapons, which can hit targets as far as 300km (186 miles) away, have been used twice already. The United States quietly sent long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine as part of a package of military support in March, and Ukraine has used the weapons twice, according to US officials. The longer-range Army Tactical Missile Systems […]
Eleven have been killed and 48 injured over the past week in Russian border regions due to Ukrainian attacks, the state news agency TASS cites the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying. “Over the past week, 59 civilians became victims of Nazi [Ukrainian] shelling: 48 were injured, including a child, and 11 died,” Rodion Miroshnik, the […]
The United States has transferred to Ukraine thousands of infantry weapons and more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition that were seized more than a year ago as they were being shipped by Iran to Houthi forces in Yemen. The US military said the transfer was made on April 4, the latest military assistance that US […]
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According to Russian media reports, a Moscow court has sentenced Pyotr Verzilov, a Russian-Canadian activist and independent news site founder, to eight years and four months of imprisonment in absentia for social media posts criticising the war in Ukraine. Verzilov, 36, rose to prominence as the unofficial spokesperson of the feminist group
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the peace plan proposed by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pointless as it is based on Moscow’s withdrawal from its captured areas. Lavrov told the Moscow daily Izvestia that a peace summit expected to be held in Switzerland based on Zelenskyy’s plan would not work until its fundamental bases […]
By Sean Bell, military analyst The US ambassador to Ukraine has announced that Russia launched “hundreds of missiles and drones” over the past few days, including hypersonic missiles at Kyiv. The Russian military has recently introduced two new hypersonic missiles – which fly at greater than five times the speed of sound – into its […]
African bloc says all people have right to cross international borders during conflict as Ukraine-Russia war continues. The African Union (AU) says it is “disturbed” by reports that African nationals in Ukraine are been prevented from safely crossing the border to flee the raging conflict in the country. In a statement late Monday, the pan-African […]
Putin is all but certain to win his fifth election, and he announced his candidacy in December during a choreographed ceremony in a lavishly decorated Kremlin hall when talking to a separatist “colonel” from the southeastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. “On behalf of all of our people, our Donbas, the lands that reunited [with Russia], […]
2:56 p.m. ET, February 23, 2024 Iran denies sending ballistic missiles to Russia From CNN’s Sahar Akbarzai Iran has denied sending ballistic missiles to Russia, saying recent reports are “unsubstantiated,” according to a statement provided to CNN from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations on Friday. “Although there are […]