MOSCOW, Russia- More than 100,000 people have enlisted in the Russian army this year, former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday, as Moscow seeks to recruit volunteers for its offensive in Ukraine. Moscow has conducted an aggressive military recruitment campaign in recent months as...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine claimed Friday to have retaken swathes of ground near the frontline city of Bakhmut, as Russia reported having repelled an attack along a broad stretch of the front line. The rival reports from the battlefront indicated an increase in fighting after months of relative...
AFP visual journalist Arman Soldin is pictured on a Ukrainian military truck during an assignment for AFP in Donbass on April 30, 2022. (Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) KYIV, Ukraine -- Messages of grief poured in Wednesday following the death of AFP journalist Arman Soldin in Ukraine, paying tribute to...
British Ambassador to the Philippines Laure Beaufils has called on the media not to allow misinformation "to pollute our minds" amid lies supposedly spread by Russia in its aggression against Ukraine. Beaufils on Wednesday night said "the media have a responsibility not to publish untruths" as a...
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on May 6, 2023, shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky taking part in a ceremony marking the Infantry Day in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Handout / Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / AFP)...
MOSCOW, Russia- Russia on Saturday opened a terrorism probe after a car blast that wounded pro-Kremlin writer Zakhar Prilepin and killed another person. "The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case into a terrorist act in connection with the explosion of Zakhar Prilepin's car,"...
KYIV, Ukraine- Ukraine said Saturday that it had for the first time downed a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile during a wave of Russian attacks in the night between last Wednesday and Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who unveiled the Kinzhal missile in 2018, has termed it "an ideal...
WASHINGTON, D.C. —President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. believes Southeast Asian countries must maintain their united front in calling for an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of KJ Rosales/PPA Pool) Marcos, during his...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Moscow on Thursday accused the US of masterminding a drone attack on the Kremlin, a charge denied by Washington, and said Ukrainian sabotage on Russian territory had reached "unprecedented momentum". Moscow said President Vladimir Putin was working from the Kremlin the day after...
MOSCOW, Russia - Moscow on Thursday accused the US of masterminding a drone attack on the Kremlin, a charge denied by Washington, and said Ukrainian sabotage on Russian territory had reached "unprecedented momentum". Moscow said President Vladimir Putin was working from the Kremlin the day after...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Kremlin said on Wednesday it shot down two drones launched by Ukraine and accused Kyiv of attempting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Two unmanned vehicles were aimed at the Kremlin... the devices were put out of action," the Kremlin said in a statement, calling the...
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