Russia-Ukraine war

Dozens of people have been killed and injured after a Russian ballistic missile struck an apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has announced.

Kiev must prevail during its conflict with Moscow if it wants to become a member of NATO, the alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Wednesday. He made the comments as NATO countries are set to meet for an annual summit in Washington on July 9-11.

More armed conflicts took place in 2023 than in any other year since the end of World War II, a new study has shown.

Tehran has dismissed a "joint roadmap" released by Washington and Paris that leveled “unacceptable” claims against Iran regarding Russian-Ukraine war as well as regional developments.

Berlin will not support Paris proposal to send Western instructors to Ukraine to train its army, German news outlet Welt am Sonntag has reported, citing sources.

Paris is deceiving the public by claiming that it has not deployed any troops to Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated.

The waves of NATO expansion eastward have not made Europe a safer place, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated. Several members of the US-led military bloc have openly supported the use of Western-supplied arms in Ukrainian strikes deep into Russian territory.

French President Emmanuel Macron went beyond merely talking about the possibility of deploying NATO troops in Ukraine, taking steps to form a coalition of military trainers who would work inside the former Soviet republic preparing Kiev’s soldiers to fight Russian forces.

The White House has claimed that Russia’s offensive in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region has stalled and is unlikely to advance any further.

US President Joe Biden has blocked a proposal by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to dispatch Western instructors to train Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, Politico has reported.

Paris has no plans to dispatch troops to Ukraine, however, the deployment of French instructors to Ukraine is not a taboo subject, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has stated.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing at least 50,000 service personnel a month, five times more than the Russian military, President Vladimir Putin has claimed.

Ukraine has struck inside of Russia with US weapons for the first time since permission was granted by the administration of US President Joe Biden last week, according to a Ukrainian official.

NATO is working on plans to rush tens of thousands of US forces along “land corridors” in Western Europe in the event of war with Moscow, a senior strategist has told The Telegraph.

China is acting as an “instrument” of Russia by pressing other nations to shun an upcoming “peace summit” on the Ukraine conflict, President Volodymyr Zelensky has alleged. The Ukrainian leader also accused Beijing of providing military support to Moscow, without giving specific evidence.

The first group of French military instructors are coming to Ukraine, high-profile Ukrainian politician Aleksey Goncharenko has claimed. Russia has repeatedly warned against NATO's involvement in Ukraine's conflict.

Any peace deal with Russia would be a “trap”, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in an interview with The Guardian newspaper.

Moscow is aware that US-made weapons are already being used in attempted strikes on Russian territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday, stating that this is proof of Washington’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired several senior officials viewed as being close to the US, the Washington Post has reported. The apparent dismissals came amid Kiev’s growing frustration with its Western backers over military support.

A US Department of Defense official confirmed to TASS that the administration of president Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use US weapons against targets on the Russian soil during counter-battery warfare.

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.

Two senior Joe Biden administration officials have opened the door to allowing Ukraine to use American-donated arms to strike targets inside Russia.

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.

Western instructors are sustaining losses in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.

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.