•The United Nations Security Council The UN Security Council will meet Monday to discuss Ukraine, a revised schedule showed, after Kyiv’s mayor urged residents to leave the capital due to mass heating outages caused by Russian strikes. “The Russian Federation has reached an appalling new level of war crimes and crimes against humanity by its [...
•Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV today urged Russia and Ukraine to find the “courage” to hold direct talks and spoke of the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza in his first Christmas message. The US Pope, who was elected by fellow cardinals in May after the death of his predecessor pope Francis, also condemned the […]
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday he was ready to hold new elections in Ukraine provided security could be assured, and that he expected to send Washington within a day revised proposals on ending the nearly four-year war with Russia. US President Donald Trump is pressuring Kyiv to accept a dea...
•Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine), Donald Trump (US) and Vladimir Putin (Russia) Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that he would end his Ukraine offensive if Kyiv withdrew from territory Moscow claims as its own — otherwise his army would take it by force. The Russian army has been slowly but steadily grinding through eastern Ukraine in ...
Russian drones and missiles pummelled Ukraine’s struggling energy infrastructure early today, cutting power to thousands across the country and killing a seven-year-old boy, authorities said. The Russian attack, which combined hundreds of drones and nearly three dozen missiles, disrupted power supplies in nine regions and plunged entire distri...
•Russian President Vladimir Putin Russia accused Ukraine today of rupturing a now defunct pipeline used to transport Russian ammonia into Ukraine for export, releasing toxic gas into the air. The incident took place near the frontline village of Rusin Yar in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russia said. “During Ukraine’s retreat from the area...
•Ukrainian rescuers work among the rubble following drone attack today Ukraine and Russia launched attacks on each other’s territory early today, leaving at least five people dead, authorities on the two sides said. In Russia’s Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, a missile strike killed three people in the village of Maslova Pristan, about 15 ...
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky A Russian drone strike on a railway station in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy wounded at least 30 people, President Volodymyr Zelensky said today. Russia’s army has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s railway infrastructure since invading in February 2022, reports AFP. Zelensky called the strike on ...
•Workers install nets to protect against drone attacks in Ukraine A drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in eastern Ukraine yesterday, officials and media groups said, bringing the toll of journalists killed in the conflict to at least 17. Antoni Lallican, 37, was embedded with the Ukrainian army near the front line in the [&hel...
•Russian prisoners of war (POWs) today after the exchange Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each today, Moscow and Kyiv said, the latest in a series of swaps that have continued despite the lack of progress towards ending the conflict. Russia’s defence ministry said on Telegram that “185 Russian servicemen have been returned” [...

