Dozens hurt, children’s hospital damaged, in Russian missile attack on Kyiv | Russia-Ukraine war News

Dozens hurt, children’s hospital damaged, in Russian missile attack on Kyiv | Russia-Ukraine war News

Officials warn number of injured could rise after second missile attack on Ukrainian capital this week. At least 45 people have been injured and a children’s hospital as well as homes damaged after Russia launched a missile attack on Kyiv in the early hours of Wednesday morning. People were woken…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 658 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 658 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 658th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Fighting Yevgeny Balitsky, the Moscow-installed head of the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhia region, said Russian forces had “advanced significantly forward northeast of Novopokrovka”. The village lies some…

Additional US military aid to Ukraine will be a ‘fiasco’, Kremlin says | Russia-Ukraine war News

Additional US military aid to Ukraine will be a ‘fiasco’, Kremlin says | Russia-Ukraine war News

Moscow is ‘very attentively’ watching as US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in Washington. Any further United States aid to Ukraine will be a “fiasco”, the Kremlin has said ahead of a meeting in Washington between US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Moscow is also…

Putin views Russia’s new nuclear submarines, says more being rolled out | Military News

Putin views Russia’s new nuclear submarines, says more being rolled out | Military News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to strengthen Russia’s naval prowess after the country inaugurated two new nuclear submarines. Putin travelled to the northern city of Severodvinsk to view the vessels, the Emperor Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk, at the Sevmash shipbuilding yard where they were built over the past six…

Allies say Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny removed from prison | Prison News

Allies say Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny removed from prison | Prison News

A spokesperson for the Russian opposition figure says that prison officials have refused to say where he was transferred. A spokesperson for Alexey Navalny has said that the Russian opposition leader has been removed from the prison where he was being held and that his whereabouts are unknown. In a…

Russia plans presidential vote in annexed Ukrainian regions | News

Russia plans presidential vote in annexed Ukrainian regions | News

The decision raises logistical and security challenges for Moscow because of its limited control in the four regions. Russia plans to run next year’s presidential election in the four regions of Ukraine that it annexed in 2022. The Central Elections Commission said on Monday that voting would go ahead in…

Russia claims arrest of Ukrainian assassin network | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia claims arrest of Ukrainian assassin network | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia says it has arrested 18 Ukrainian ‘agents and accomplices’ who plotted to assassinate pro-Russian figures. Russia says that it has arrested a network of Ukrainian assassins targeting pro-Russian figures in the annexed Crimea peninsula. Moscow’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it has arrested 18 “agents and…

Sergey Lavrov: The Russian approaches to Gaza and Ukraine | Politics

Sergey Lavrov: The Russian approaches to Gaza and Ukraine | Politics

The Russian foreign minister debates his country’s approaches to Gaza and Ukraine. In a world grappling with its geopolitics being fragmented, the East versus West competition for power is seemingly threatening to divide and polarise the global order. Russia’s ability to selectively influence leaders and events in various parts of…

Zelenskyy to meet US President Joe Biden, House Speaker as aid stumbles | Russia-Ukraine war News

Zelenskyy to meet US President Joe Biden, House Speaker as aid stumbles | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukrainian president will travel to Washington, DC as right-wing Republicans baulk at providing more help to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington, DC on Monday for meetings at the White House and the United States Capitol as right-wing US Republicans resist…