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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United Nations that Russia is planning to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants as he repeated his calls for unity from world leaders in order to force Moscow to the negotiating table to conclude a “just peace”.
In a forceful speech to the United Nations security council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged a broad alliance of nations to “force Russia into peace”. He claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has violated the foundations of the UN and that the war “can’t be conquered by talks” alone.
There is currently too little information about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s so-called ‘victory plan’ for Russia to be able to properly evaluate it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
The next few months will be "decisive" in Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated, as he began his nearly week-long trip to the U.S.
Moscow does not plan to attend the second Ukrainian-promoted “peace summit” later this year, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has confirmed. She argued that the event would be based on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “peace formula” and seek to impose an ultimatum on Russia.
The United States and United Kingdom have not authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles on targets inside Russia possibly fearing an "escalation", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated.
Ukraine is receiving less military aid from the US because the Pentagon finds itself short on equipment and ammunition that it can export without compromising national security, CNN has reported, citing unnamed officials.
An informed source in the Iranian Armed Forces has dismissed the Ukrainian prosecutor's claim about Tehran's involvement in training members of Russia's army on drone-related matters, calling it a conspiracy by some Western and European countries to justify their direct interference in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.
The majority of EU countries and the European Commission are in favor of extending the sanctions renewal period for the Russian assets frozen by the bloc from six to 36 months, according to a report.
Roughly 1 million Ukrainians and Russians have been killed or wounded in Moscow's all-out war against its neighbor, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported, citing undisclosed sources and Western intelligence estimates.
The outgoing head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg has stated that he welcomed talks on Ukraine's use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory, but any decision on the issue would have to be made by individual allies.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that officially increases the number of personnel in Russia’s military to almost 2.4 million people, including 1.5 million servicemen.
An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied a news report suggesting that Kiev's new victory plan will include a partial ceasefire, calling it "fake".
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised powers have condemned "in the strongest terms" Iran's export and Russia's procurement of "Iranian ballistic missiles". Tehran has dismissed claims of supplying ballistic missiles to Moscow as baseless.
Despite Tehran's repeated denial, US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have expressed concern about Iran providing lethal weapons to Russia amid its ongoing war with Ukraine, the White House announced.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow would be “at war” with the United States and its allies if they lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of long-range Western weapons.
Recent deliberations about alleged deliveries of weapons to Russia from abroad are groundless, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that Washington is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has warned that Tehran will take reciprocal measures after the US and the three European states imposed sanctions against Iran over the alleged missile delivery to Russia.
Kiev has announced it will review its options and could even cut relations with Tehran if Russia used ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to attack targets in Ukraine.
The United States has formally accused Iran of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, saying Washington will take measures to punish Tehran. The Islamic Republic has denied providing Moscow with weapons for the conflict.
