Russia is scouring China for second-hand machine tools using shadowy networks of buyers, as the Kremlin races to secure vital equipment to increase arms production. Russian commanders have ordered not to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner but to behead them instead, Ukraine says.
Read MoreThe UN warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine and the rest of the Strip at risk as well. Vladimir Putin said he is open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to propose a ceasefire during this summer's Paris Olympics
Read MoreVoters across Russia cast ballots on Sunday on the third and final day of an election set to formalise six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin. Sky News being sued for negligence by family of a Ukrainian fixer killed covering the war
Read MoreAt least 18 people were killed and well over 100 wounded in a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine - including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kharkiv. Ukraine's military says Russia launched a "massive" attack with 158 drones and missiles - the air force says it has "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously"
Read MoreDozens of Hamas terrorists lost contact with the terror group's leadership, leaving them with no option but to lay down their weapons and surrender to Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Argentina to rally global south support.
Read MoreAnger at Israel increases as attacks on innocent civilians continue. Meanwhile, rifts with regional neighbours continue to surface. Ukrainian forces looked to build on bridgeheads on the east bank of the Dnipro River
Read MoreIn an almost unprecedented move, Israel moves to bar the UN’s top humanitarian official from the country, and threatens to deny visas to other UN staff as well. Gridlock in Washngton could come to an end soon with the election of a new House speaker, who also happens to be a Trump supporter.
Read MoreAnother group of lorries passed into Gaza from Egypt bringing much needed aid. Israel strikes targets in Gaza and the West Bank. A private Ukrainian postal depot was struck by Russian missiles - dead and injured
Read MoreEvacuations from flooded parts of the Kherson region continue after a major dam was breached yesterday. Ukrainian officials have warned that some 42,000 people are at risk from flooding, with water levels expected to peak in Kherson today. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that hundreds of thousands of people have been left without drinking water
Read MoreRussia launched 36 Iranian-made Shahed drones against Ukraine overnight Thursday, Ukraine’s Air Force reports. All the drones were shot down. Separately, a Russian missile hit a medical clinic in Dnipro, killing at least one and injuring 15 - including 2 children.
Read MoreUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is undertaking shuttle diplomacy in Western Europe ahead of an expected spring counteroffensive against Russia. It included stops in Rome, the Vatican, Berlin and Paris.
Read MoreRussia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyiv's anticipated offensive. The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the evacuation of residents near the nuclear plant indicated the possibility of heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces around the plant.
Read MoreThe Ukrainian military reported on May 5 that fresh Russian reinforcements were being brought into Bakhmut, the city at the epicenter of Moscow's push in eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia overnight shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, regional authorities said on May 5, as fighting intensified in Bakhmut
Read MoreThe Ukrainian military said Russian forces unleashed more waves of assaults on Bakhmut over the past day, but neither side managed to make critical advances RFE/RL reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is doing all it can to destroy Ukraine’s history, culture and people.
Read MoreUkraine says its forces have repelleddozens of attacks as the invading Russian military pressed on with its offensive in the eastern Donetsk region with air strikes and artillery attacks. Ukraine is at a critical juncture in the war and both the country and its allies must not lose sight of the path to victory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on April 11.
Read MoreUkrainian children returned from Russian camps in occupied Crimea report being beaten with “iron sticks,” threatened with deportation to mainland Russia, forced to sing the Russian national anthem and locked in basements in unsanitary conditions.
Read MoreOn the battlefield, the fight for the eastern city of Bakhmut raged on. While in Zaporizhizhia another Russian missile strike on populated civilian targets resulted in deaths and injuries.
Read MoreStrong pledges of support for Ukraine from western allies in Germany - but is it too little, too late? So far, no pledges of attack helicopters or fighter jets for Kyiv
Read MoreThere will be no dismissals or appointments at the Defense Ministry this week, a Ukrainian lawmaker said this week. Hundreds of thousands still without power in Odesa
Read MoreLt. Gen. Ben Hodges (Ret.) says the Russian-occupied region of Crimea could be a decisive area for the Ukrainian military in the next phase of the war. Kharkiv gets a pounding from a Russian missile strike.
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