Ukraine
One of Putin’s top aides quits, reportedly in opposition to the Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin seen with Anatoly Chubais, who has reportedly quit as Russia’s climate envoy, in 2016. Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images News | Getty Images A high-ranking and long-standing aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin has quit his role as Moscow’s climate envoy due to his opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Earlier […]
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Zelenskyy says 100,000 people trapped in Mariupol; German leader says Putin destroying Russia’s future
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges Japan lawmakers to impose further sanctions on Russia Members of Japan’s lower house of parliament applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears on screen via video link at the House of Representatives office building in Tokyo on March 23, 2022. Behrouz Mehri | Afp | Getty Images Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has […]
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Omicron’s ‘stealth’ subvariant BA.2 could go ‘wild’ in Europe before going global, top epidemiologist says
Doctor Immanuel Hardtmann holds a syringe with the vaccine Moderna in a temporary vaccination center inside the Excursion boat Alexander von Humboldt on the first day of the #HierWirdGeimpft (Get Vaccinated Here) Covid-19 vaccination campaign on September 13, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Carsten Koall | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — While war […]
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Bitcoin is a lifeline for some Ukrainian refugees, like this 20-year-old who escaped with $2,000 on a thumb drive
Civilians continue to flee from Irpin due to ongoing Russian attacks in Irpin, Ukraine on March 07, 2022. Wolfgang Schwan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images On the morning that Russia went to war with Ukraine, Fadey woke up at 9am to a deluge of Telegram messages from friends asking him what was happening on […]
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Putin’s Ukraine invasion is turning into a ‘grinding war’ where nobody wins
A Ukrainian soldier stands on the front line, near Kyiv on March 20, 2022. Genya Savilov | AFP | Getty Images As Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine drags close to a fourth week it’s becoming clear to both Moscow and Kyiv that the conflict will not be easily won, or lost, by either side. Russian […]
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‘We want them to go to the Stone Age’: Ukrainian coders are splitting their time between work and cyber warfare
Thomas Samson | AFP | Getty Images Hordes of Ukrainian coders are splitting their time between doing their day jobs and fighting a cyber war with Russia. Over 311,000 people have joined a group called “IT Army of Ukraine” on the social media platform Telegram, where Russian targets are shared. While not all of them […]
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Zelenskyy calls for more pressure on Moscow as Ukraine says 15,000 Russian troops have been killed
‘It is time to end this absurd war,’ UN secretary-general says Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks to press about war in Ukraine at the Security Council Stakeout of UN headquarters in New York City, United States on March 14, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres […]
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‘I am enemy No. 1’: Protester on Russian TV speaks out from hiding
Marina Ovsyannikova is seen here (in a still grab taken from a video uploaded on March 14, 2022) giving a statement recorded before she held up an anti-war sign live on air. Marina Ovsyannikova via Reuters Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who protested the war in Ukraine on live state TV, has told international media […]
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Russia says it fired hypersonic missiles in Ukraine. What are they and why would Moscow use them?
A MiG-31K fighter jet with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile flies over Moscow’s Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in 2018. Sefa Karacan | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Russia’s purported use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine in recent days is not only a sign that the military could be resorting to using more […]
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Russia says Biden’s ‘war criminal’ claim has put relations ‘on the verge of rupture’
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2022. Alexander Vilf | Reuters The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan on Monday in Moscow to formally protest President Joe Biden’s […]
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