This Is Beirut, 01/06 11:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russia fired a combined 100 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that targeted energy sites across the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Russia has launched hundreds of aerial attacks at Ukraine's power facilities throughout the two-year war, causing significant damage and energy shortages as Ukraine's stretched air ...
This Is Beirut, 31/05 23:11 - Reading : less than a minute
Ukraine United States Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday hailed the United States' decision to allow Kyiv to use American-supplied weapons to strike in Russia, with some restrictions. "This is a step forward toward [the] goal ... of making it possible to defend our people who live in the villages on the border," Zelensky told reporters in Stockholm where ...
This Is Beirut, 30/05 18:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
NATO foreign ministers gathered in Prague on Thursday in the face of growing calls for leading allies to lift restrictions stopping Kyiv from using Western weapons to strike inside Russia. The two-day meeting in the Czech capital is meant to focus on efforts to hammer out a package of support for Ukraine at NATO's summit in Washington in July, ...
This Is Beirut, 17/05 20:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Ukraine Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday that Moscow would not comply with calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Summer Olympics, pointing to what he said was the unfair treatment of Russian athletes. When asked during a visit to China whether he backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea for a global "Olympic truce" during ...
This Is Beirut, 17/05 19:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian forces pressed ahead on Friday with an offensive into northeast Ukraine, but President Vladimir Putin said that there were no current plans to occupy the key city of Kharkiv. On a trip to China, Putin said that the latest assault was direct retaliation for Ukraine's shelling of Russia's border regions and his country was trying to create ...
This Is Beirut, 16/05 00:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Thursday to meet with counterpart Xi Jinping as he seeks greater support from Beijing for his war effort in Ukraine and his isolated economy. This is Putin's first trip abroad since his March re-election and the second in just over six months to China, an economic lifeline for Russia after the ...
This Is Beirut, 15/05 20:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that more powerful and advanced weapons could hasten victory for his troops fighting in Ukraine. The Kremlin leader also hailed recent advances on the battlefield, saying Russia's army was advancing on all fronts, as he urged Moscow to intensify and modernize its arms production at home. "We have ...
This Is Beirut, 15/05 20:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
European Union Ukraine Vladimir Putin
The gunman who shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico multiple times and wounded him on Wednesday has been detained by the police, the country's president said. Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico was battling life-threatening wounds Wednesday after officials said he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt condemned by European ...
This Is Beirut, 14/05 21:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Antony Blinken Kyiv Ukraine United States
The United States will back Ukraine until its security is "guaranteed," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a trip to Kyiv on Tuesday, hours after Russian forces claimed further advances in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Blinken's visit comes just weeks after the US Congress finally approved a $61-billion financial aid package for ...
This Is Beirut, 12/05 13:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thousands of people have been evacuated from border areas in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, as Russia kept up constant strikes on a key town as part of a cross-border offensive, officials said on Sunday. The surprise Russian attack across Ukraine's northeastern border began on Friday, with Moscow's troops making small advances in an area from where ...
This Is Beirut, 11/05 11:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hundreds of people were evacuated from areas near the Russian border in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, the regional governor said Saturday, a day after Moscow launched a surprise ground offensive. "A total of 1,775 people have been evacuated," governor Oleg Synegubov wrote on social media, adding that there had been Russian artillery and mortar ...
This Is Beirut, 06/05 18:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Moscow said on Monday that it could launch strikes at British military targets inside Ukraine and elsewhere if Kyiv's forces used British-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russia. The statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry came after British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said during a visit to Ukraine that Kyiv "absolutely has ...