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Energy Russia Ukraine Ukraine War
Ukraine on Saturday said Russia had launched a "massive" overnight attack on energy infrastructure in the west and south, adding that at least seven people died from Moscow strikes elsewhere. Russia launched 16 cruise missiles from land, sea and air as well as 13 attack drones, aiming at energy infrastructure in several regions, Ukraine's ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/06 11:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Crimea Energy Kharkiv Russia Sheels Ukraine
Two people were killed and around fifty injured in Russian strikes in Kharkiv on Saturday. Two other people died and twenty-two were injured in Ukrainian missile attack in Crimea the same day. Russian strikes left two people dead and around 50 injured on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city and a regular target of bombardment, ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/06 21:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU European Union Hungary Russia Ukraine Ukraine War
The EU on Monday agreed to start paying out a first chunk of funds worth 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) earned from Russian frozen assets to help arm Ukraine, bypassing blockages from Hungary. The money is part of roughly three billion euros a year in interest from immobilized Russian central bank funds that the EU agreed to use for Kyiv in ...
par This Is Beirut, 25/06 10:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
European Union Moldova Russia Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
The European Union formally launches accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday, setting the fragile ex-Soviet states off on a long path towards membership that Russia has tried to block. The landmark move is aimed in particular at sending a vote of confidence in Ukraine's future as Moscow has momentum on the battlefield almost ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/06 00:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia Ukraine Ukraine War Volodymyr Zelensky war
Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 90 prisoners of war each in the biggest swap between the two warring sides in almost five months, officials said Tuesday. Moscow and Kyiv have carried out over 50 prisoner exchanges since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago, despite ongoing hostilities and both sides accusing each other of derailing ...
par Rami Rayess, 26/06 07:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israeli war against the Gaza Strip and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have overshadowed the events in Sudan, including the armed conflict that has been raging since April 2023. This is happening amidst international and Arab indifference towards resolving the rift between the two warring military factions: the official Sudanese army and the ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/06 13:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
diplomacy Europe France Mark Rutte NATO Poutine Trump Ukraine
NATO's 32 nations appointed, on Wednesday, outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the alliance's next head, handing him the job at a crucial moment with Russia on the march in Ukraine and US elections looming. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will hand over to Rutte on October 1. Major powers, led by the US, completed his nomination in ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/06 19:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Charles Michel European Union NATO Russia Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday signed a 10-year security pact with the European Union in Brussels, the latest deal aimed at shoring up long-term support for Kyiv in its fight with Russia. Days after the EU said it was opening formal membership negotiations with Kyiv, Zelensky attended a summit of EU leaders to meet with some ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/07 09:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russian forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight in regions near the border, Moscow's defense ministry said Monday. "Air defense systems on duty destroyed and suppressed 18 UAVs over Bryansk region, nine UAVs were destroyed over Kursk region and nine UAVs over Belgorod region," the ministry said in a Telegram post. The ministry said on ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/07 11:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hungary Ukraine Viktor Orban Volodymyr Zelensky
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for a surprise visit to the war-torn country by the EU and NATO's most vocal critic of Western support for Kyiv. Orban has not visited Kyiv since Russia invaded in February 2022 and has publicly hit out at Europe's financial and military aid, temporarily blocking a 50-billion ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/07 10:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Joe Biden NATO Ukraine Washington
It was supposed to be a grand celebration of the 75th anniversary of a strengthened alliance. Instead, this week's NATO summit in Washington is likely to be overshadowed by uncertainties over Ukraine and political turbulence on both sides of the Atlantic. From Tuesday to Thursday, a strange atmosphere will hang over the US capital as Joe Biden ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/07 14:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
military Russia Ukraine Ukraine War Valdimir Putin Volodymyr Zelensky
Russia struck cities across Ukraine on Monday with a missile barrage that killed three dozen people and ripped open a children's hospital in Kyiv, an assault condemned as a ruthless attack on civilians. Dozens of volunteers including hospital staff and rescue workers dug through debris from the Okhmatdyt pediatric hospital in a desperate search ...
