Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine Thursday. Kiev has confirmed war has broken out between Russia and Ukraine, and Moscow has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow will perceive deliveries of the US-designed F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as a “deliberate” signal from NATO in the nuclear sphere, indicating that the military bloc is “ready for anything”, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned.
NATO member states, the US and Germany, have warned against offering Ukraine a firm timeframe for joining the military bloc, the Daily Telegraph writes, citing sources.
An EU plan to use profits from frozen Russian sovereign assets to buy weapons for Ukraine has so far stalled due to resistance from Hungary, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has stated.
NATO is raising the degree of escalation and going too far in military rhetoric, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated in an interview with REN-TV broadcaster.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the global community to work together against Russia, stressing that no nation can survive a conflict with Moscow alone.
The G7 has not reached a consensus on how to use the revenue generated by Russian central bank assets frozen abroad to help Ukraine, Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti has stated.
Russia does not need another mobilization and has been signing up volunteers for contract service, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated, refuting a Financial Times report claiming that such a new draft was being planned.
Several people have been killed and wounded in separate attacks in Ukraine and Russia, according to officials, as Moscow steps up its offensive in northeast Ukraine.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has argued that members of the Western military bloc should let Ukraine freely use their arms to launch strikes deeper into Russian territory.
The United States is providing a new weapons package for Ukraine worth $275 million to include additional high-mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) ammunition and 155mm artillery rounds, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated.
The US and its allies should shoot down Moscow's missiles, give Kiev more weapons, and allow Ukraine to strike Russia directly, President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the New York Times newspaper.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers have sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding that he allow Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range weapons to carry out strikes inside Russian territory.
The West has no appetite for a direct military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, British Defenсe Secretary Grant Shapps has stated. He also suggested that Berlin is unwilling to provide its long-range missiles to Kiev for fear that they would be used to hit Russian targets in Crimea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced the west for its ban on using Western-donated weapons to strike targets inside Russia, claiming the United States and Europe are afraid of both Russian and Ukrainian defeat.
Several US allies within NATO are “inching closer” to sending military forces into Ukraine to train its armed forces, the New York Times has reported. Some American military contractors are already on the ground to repair Washington-supplied weapons systems.
Kiev has urged Washington to provide intelligence on targets on Russian soil, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces lose ground on the battlefield, the Wall Street Journal has reported, saying US administration officials have begun to review the request.
Some 12 percent of US security aid provided to Ukraine from January 1 through March 31 was delinquent or unaccounted for, the US Defense Department Inspector General has announced in a quarterly oversight report of US support for Ukraine.
Moscow has no intention of capturing the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which is close to the Russian border, President Vladimir Putin has claimed. The remarks came as the Russian armed forces have been making notable gains in the area in recent days.
Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani says his country’s impartial position since the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict has remained unchanged.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted the military condition in the northeastern Kharkiv region was "extremely difficult", but still "under control", after a meeting with his military chiefs near the front line.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Kiev is a sign that the Biden administration is concerned about the situation on the frontlines in Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said at a briefing.
