EU Commission President von der Leyen has called on Ukraine to do more to fight corruption. Von der Leyen stressed that the next steps will require hard work and that there will be a long road to EU membership, but that Europe will stand by Ukraine. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has called […]
A fire broke out in a shopping center in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchug. Kyiv speaks of a rocket attack by the Russian army and reports at least ten fatalities. Rescue and extinguishing commands are on site. According to Ukrainian media, an air raid alarm went off in the city of Kremenchug in the […]
On Sunday, Kyiv reported damage to a residential building and a kindergarten from alleged Russian rocket fire, RT DE had reported on it. On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry denied that civilian objects were hit by Russian missiles. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Moscow confirmed the rocket attack on a defense […]
Early Sunday morning Russian rocket artillery struck Kyiv several times. It is probably the long-awaited reaction to the constant shelling of the Donbass by the Ukrainian military. In the Donbass, some are calling for more than just “symbolic warning shots”. The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been attacked by Russia with rockets for the first time […]
A commentary by Scott Ritter Former Polish foreign minister and current MEP Radosław Sikorski recently suggested that the west should supply nuclear weapons to Ukraine so that it “can defend its independence”. Sikorski’s argument is based on a fundamentally misunderstanding of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which sealed Ukraine’s accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and […]
Russia reports downing of a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov reported further Russian attacks on military targets in Ukraine at his press briefing on Saturday afternoon. Oil processing plants and fuel depots near Kremenchug and Lisichansk were destroyed with high-precision missile strikes. In addition, twelve firing positions of the […]
by Dagmar Henn Chancellor Olaf Scholz was now in Ukraine. The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) made It’s a heroic story, because the journey from the Polish-Ukrainian border had to be made by train: “Because of the special circumstances, the Chancellor is traveling with a small team, which makes it necessary for his State Secretary Jörg Kukies […]
16 June 2022 8:57 am Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi arrived in the Ukrainian capital on a special train on Thursday morning. They should therefore meet with the Ukrainian President Selensky. More information will follow. By blocking RT, the EU aims to silence a critical, non-pro-Western source […]
16 June 2022 07:05 The daily losses of the Ukrainian military are up to 1,000 men. This was reported by the US online news portal Axios with reference to the faction leader of the Ukrainian governing party “People’s Servant”, David Arachamija, who spoke of 200-500 on average. With up to 1,000 men a day, of […]