KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine on Monday rejected an ultimatum to surrender the besieged city of Mariupol, its deputy prime minister told local media, demanding Moscow instead allow hundreds of thousands of terrified residents safe passage out. "We can't talk about surrendering weapons," Iryna Vereshchuk...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte remains hopeful that the government's planned strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) would get off the ground before President Duterte ends his term on June 30, 2022. (Photo from LRay Villafuerte's Facebook) This, after the Chief Executive tapped a touted...
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian authorities on Sunday accused Russian forces of bombing a school in the besieged city of Mariupol where some 400 people, including women and children had been sheltering, and of deporting some residents to Russia. Mariupol has been one of the main targets of...
MOSCOW, Russia – Russia said Sunday it has again fired its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, destroying a fuel storage site in the country's south. The Russian defence ministry also said it killed more than 100 members of Ukrainian special forces and "foreign mercenaries" when...
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukraine called on China on Saturday to join the West in condemning "Russian barbarism", as Moscow claimed it had struck a Ukrainian arms depot with hypersonic missiles in what would be the first use in combat of the next-generation weapons. That attack, not far from the...
Parishes in the Archdiocese of Manila were urged to join Pope Francis in the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25 by organizing a Mass. Photo RCAM In a circular letter, Fr. Carmelo Arada, the vice chancellor of the archdiocese, said parishes are encouraged...
KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow Saturday, while Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of besieged port city Mariupol. As bitter fighting between local forces and Russian troops rages across the country more than three...
Oksana Shvets (Facebook) Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets was killed during a Russian shelling in Kyiv, according to a local theater group, on March 17. On Facebook March 19, Young Theater posted: "Unreparable grief in the family of Young Theater. During the rocket shelling of a residential building...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused Ukrainian authorities of stalling talks, but added that Moscow was ready to search for solutions as he spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. "It was noted that the Kyiv regime is trying in every possible way to stall...
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's border guards said Friday that more than two million refugees had crossed into the EU member from neighbouring Ukraine since the February 24 Russian invasion. "At 9:00 am the number of refugees from Ukraine exceeded two million. It is mainly women with children,"...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Bloody new attacks on civilians fuelled accusations Thursday that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, as the United States warned it will make China pay for any support given to Moscow's assault. Three weeks into Russia's devastating invasion, the harsh tally of assaults on...
WASHINGTON, United States – US President Joe Biden will warn his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday that he will face "costs" if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense Western sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The two leaders' first phone...
