LONDON: As the crisis with Russia enters a new phase, Britain will provide more artillery guns to Ukraine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Tuesday. “This will become an artillery battle; they will require additional artillery assistance, which we will provide… in addition to many other sorts of support,” JohnsonContinue Reading
THE HAGUE – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan arrived in The Hague on Friday for the Invictus Games, only a day after paying a visit to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in the Dutch city for a sporting tournament for injuredContinue Reading
Russia’s Black Sea flagship sank Thursday after being engulfed in an inferno sparked by a missile strike, according to Ukraine, as the Kremlin complained that Kyiv was targeting its citizens in cross-border sorties. The guided missile cruiser Moskva has led Russia’s naval effort against its neighbour in the seven-week conflict,Continue Reading
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland launched measures Wednesday to phase out all Russian oil imports by the end of 2022, as Germany issued a warning about natural gas supplies and urged users to save energy in a hint of rising economic tensions in Europe over Russia’s conflict in Ukraine. Poland’sContinue Reading
President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed a NATO summit on Thursday to send more weaponry to Ukraine, and Western allies retaliated with more penalties against Russia, promises of military aid, and talk of kicking Moscow out of the G20. As hostilities raged across Ukraine, with television pictures showing a big Russian vesselContinue Reading
The Turkish Armed Forces’ Chief of General Staff paid a visit to the Joint Staff Headquarters on Thursday, where he met with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Nadeem Raza to discuss bilateral cooperation and regional security. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Turkish Armed Forces ChiefContinue Reading
As Russian forces focus their fire on cities and captive populations in Ukraine’s almost month-long incursion, President Joe Biden has added a visit to Poland to his trip to Europe this week for urgent consultations with NATO and European partners. Biden will go to Brussels first, then to Poland toContinue Reading
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russia’s shelling of a school sheltering hundreds of people an act of “horror,” and urged direct negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as the only way to stop the war. Authorities reported people were still “under the debris” at the school in the besiegedContinue Reading
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin granted the go-ahead for up to 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East to fight alongside Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine, doubling down on an invasion that the West claims is losing steam. The action, which comes little over two weeks after Putin launched the assault,Continue Reading
US intelligence officials described Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “angry,” isolated leader seeking global power, dissatisfied with how his Ukraine invasion has not gone as planned, and issuing provocative nuclear threats to the West. According to CIA Director William Burns, Russia’s long-serving ruler has been “stewing in a combustible blendContinue Reading
