Tag: Ukraine

As has happened so many times before in European history, an aggressor’s bombs and tanks are wreaking horror and havoc on a weaker neighbor. This time, the victim is Ukraine, a member state of the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine today, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s government said Russian tanks and…

Any illusions about Vladimir Putin’s objectives should have vanished on Monday, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in a decade. The Russian leader made clear in a Monday speech that he believes Ukraine…

MOSCOW (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered heavy U.S. financial sanctions against Russian banks and oligarchs on Tuesday, stepping up the West’s confrontation with Moscow, even as Russian lawmakers authorized President Vladimir Putin to use…

Russia’s Vladimir Putin justified usurpation of two more Ukrainian territories on Monday as a reunification of what he says has historically been “one people,” one country. Shortly after, he ordered Russian troops into the regions…

BRUSSELS (AP) — With the smell of war in the air over Europe, world leaders got over the shock of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to deploy troops to separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and…

To confront Kremlin aggression, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared Tuesday a “day of unity.” To achieve the same objective, President Joe Biden has galvanized a new era of unity among NATO allies and partners. While…

MOSCOW (AP) — The U.S. and Russian presidents tentatively agreed to meet in a last-ditch effort to stave off a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as sustained shelling continued today in a conflict in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, facing a sharp spike in violence in and around territory held by Russia-backed rebels and increasingly dire warnings that Russia plans to invade, on Saturday called for Russian…

MUNICH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris warned Russia on Saturday that it will face “unprecedented” financial penalties if it invades Ukraine and predicted that such an attack would draw European allies closer to the…