Bulgaria’s new govt ends plans for additional arms support to Ukraine
- 09-Jun-2026
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s newly appointed defence minister, Dimitar Stoyanov, said on Tuesday his country would no longer provide arms to Ukraine and urged Moscow and Kyiv to sit down at the negotiating table to end the war, the BTA news agency reported. Bulgaria, a NATO and European Union member state that holds a strategic position on […]
Ukraine drones hit Saint Petersburg as flagship economic forum opens
- 03-Jun-2026
SAINT PETERSBURG: Ukrainian drones hit energy and military sites in Saint Petersburg early Wednesday morning as officials gathered for a flagship economic forum in the city, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said. Some 20,000 guests from 130 countries are set to attend the three-day annual Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum — an event that was once […]
Russian drone hit Chinese cargo ship overnight in Black Sea: Ukraine
- 18-May-2026
KYIV, Ukraine: A Russian drone hit a Chinese cargo ship in the Black Sea overnight, Ukraine said Monday, a day before Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to Beijing to meet Xi Jinping. Monday’s attack comes just ahead of Putin’s two-day trip to Beijing where he and Xi are set to deepen bilateral ties between the […]
Ukraine drones kill four in Russia, Moscow faces biggest attack in over a year
- 17-May-2026
At least four people were killed, including three in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone attack on the Russian capital in more than a year, local officials said on Sunday. A fourth person was killed in the Belgorod region bordering northeastern Ukraine, local authorities said, while Russia’s defence ministry said by […]
Ukraine in diplomatic tussle with Israel over grain Kyiv says ‘stolen’ by Russia
- 29-Apr-2026
Ukraine and Israel traded diplomatic blows on Tuesday as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned what he said were grain purchases from occupied Ukrainian territory “stolen” by Russia and threatened sanctions against those attempting to profit from it. Kyiv considers all grain produced in the four regions that Russia claims as its own since invading Ukraine in […]
Ukraine PM says she feels more confident of US support after visit to Washington
- 17-Apr-2026
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko left the United States on Thursday buoyed by what she called positive talks with top US officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, saying she found him to be supportive of her war-torn country. Svyrydenko told Reuters that she used the meeting with Bessent to hammer home Ukraine’s position that sanctions […]
Russia, Ukraine trade accusations of Orthodox Easter ceasefire violations
- 12-Apr-2026
Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Sunday of breaching the 32-hour ceasefire in their four-year war, reporting more than a thousand drone and shelling attacks just hours after the truce began on Saturday to mark Orthodox Easter. The Russian defence ministry said it recorded 1,971 ceasefire violations overnight into Sunday, while Ukraine’s general staff […]
Russia returns bodies of 1,000 soldiers to Ukraine
- 09-Apr-2026
MOSCOW: Moscow on Thursday handed over the remains of 1,000 soldiers to Ukraine, a Russian source in Moscow’s negotiating delegation told reporters, with Kyiv returning the bodies of 41 dead Russian troops in exchange. The two sides regularly exchange the remains of troops killed in combat, one of the few areas of cooperation during the […]
US envoys Witkoff and Kushner could visit Ukraine, Kyiv says
- 05-Apr-2026
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner could travel to Kyiv in April, the Ukrainian president’s top aide Kyrylo Budanov said on Saturday, amid efforts to revive peace talks with Russia which stalled after the outbreak of war in the Gulf. “Kushner, Witkoff, Lindsey Graham — those are the ones expected to come. Who else […]
Estonia says stray Ukraine drones entered its territory
- 01-Apr-2026
Estonia says stray Ukraine drones entered its territory