Source link A man has received a five-year prison term for interfering with the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ conscription efforts A security guard for an apartment complex in Kiev has been sentenced to five years in prison for warning residents about visits from military commissars handing out summonses, Ukrainian media reported on Monday, citing court documents. […]
Source link British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has offered to help Berlin with its “problems preventing a Taurus delivery” to Ukraine Berlin could take up London on its offer to supply Taurus missiles to the UK in exchange for more weapons for Ukraine, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told ARD on Sunday. Kiev has long requested […]
Source link The Vatican should avoid repeating the mistakes of the past when talking about the conflict in Ukraine, the foreign minister said Pope Francis was wrong to suggest that Kiev should restart negotiations with Moscow, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has said. The pontiff ruffled some feathers in Ukraine this week by speaking about […]
Source link The UK is open to “all options” when it comes to achieving “maximum effect” for Ukraine, David Cameron has said Western nations should enhance their military support to Ukraine and “invest” more in NATO, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published on Friday. London is ready to […]
Source link The bloc has seen a massive influx of cheap agricultural products from Ukraine since 2022 Ukraine is willing to accept trade restrictions with the EU to end its disputes with Poland but is urging the bloc to ban Russian food imports, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Ukrainian Trade Minister Taras Kachka told […]
Source link Replacing Ukraine’s commander-in-chief was “a mistake,” Vitaly Klitschko said President Vladimir Zelensky was wrong to fire the popular commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko has said. Zelensky dismissed General Valery Zaluzhny last month, citing the need for “a change in strategy.” General Aleksandr Syrsky was named Zaluzhny’s successor. “Removing him […]
Source link Officials convicted for corruption should be sent to the frontlines as should many others, justice minister has argued Ukraine should not hesitate to draft convicted criminals into military service, Justice Minister Denis Malyuska believes. Corrupt felons may be “greedy patriots” who will make fine soldiers, he told local media, and even violent inmates […]
Source link Russia has repeatedly stated it is ready for peace negotiations with Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Moscow has not abandoned the idea of peace talks with Kiev but has seen no genuine desire for this on the part of Ukraine or its Western backers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a […]
Source link “Western patrons” appear to want Ukraine to produce a larger body count, top investigator Aleksandr Bastrykin has claimed Ukraine’s recent deadly attacks on the Russian city of Belgorod had no military purpose, and were designed to maximize harm to civilians, the chair of the Russian Investigative Committee has claimed. Kiev’s forces targeted the […]
Source link Civilian officials did not tell the army how many soldiers and weapons it would receive, Viktor Nazarov has said The Ukrainian government wanted the military to figure out how Kiev could defeat Russia but failed to provide data on what resources it had to achieve that goal, an adviser to former Ukrainian commander-in-chief […]
Source link Berlin has decided to switch to the Ukrainian spelling of the city in its official document workflow Germany’s authorities have decided to move away from the Russian spelling of Ukraine’s capital of Kiev to the Ukrainian one, the nation’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. The city that was previously spelled as ‘Kiew’ in […]
Source link Officials in Taipei have reportedly raised questions about what wavering support for Ukraine means for their security US lawmakers who visited Taiwanese leaders this week have reportedly been met with apprehension and questions over Washington’s security commitments amid its stalled support for Ukraine. “Taiwan is extremely interested in Ukraine, and extremely worried that […]
Source link Russia will have to deal with it sooner or later, the former president told reporters Russia will have to keep fighting Ukraine until it takes its capital Kiev, since it “emanates threat” to it, Dmitry Medvedev, currently deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council has said. The capital has “Russian roots”, but is […]
Source link PM Denis Shmigal says his country has lost a third of its economy and some 3.5 million jobs since the start of the conflict with Russia Ukraine has lost a significant portion of its territory and has suffered major economic damage during the conflict with Russia, Prime Minister Denis Shmigal said on Tuesday. […]
Source link Top Ukrainian officials have been urging European countries to extradite men of fighting age Ukraine has the right to demand the return of male refugees who are evading the draft, UN official Philippe Leclerc has argued. He added that military mobilization in Ukraine does not constitute persecution, meaning legal protection for draftees can […]