A surprise cabinet shuffle in the UK that brings an unelected former PM to lead the Foreign Office. Gaza Strip’s hospitals “must be protected,” President Biden said. Turkey joins other countries in mass deportations of Afghan refugees.
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The annual UNGA gets underway today in New York. Though there are some notable no-shows among the permanent members of the Security Council. In the next days the progress of achieving the Millennium Development Goals will be reviewed and climate and health will dominate side discussions.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Johannesburg for a state visit and for the BRICS Summit. Air space around Moscow was closed once again due to the presence of Ukrainian drones
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In one of the deadliest attacks on a Ukrainian city, Russia fired an Iskander missile into a theatre in central Chernihiv yesterday, killing seven people - including a six year old child - and injuring at least 148. BRICS Summit host, South Africa, confirmed Russian President Vladimir Putin will participate virtually.
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In the 4th attack in as many days, Russian missiles struck agricultural warehouses in Odesa overnight, destroying tons of crops, a Ukrainian military official said, adding they were carried out with Kalibr missiles fired from the Black Sea and destroyed 100 tons of peas and 20 tons of barley. Two people were injured
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Overnight strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv and Odesa caused injuries and significant damage - including to an administrative building in Odesa. Grain and corn prices rise due to a Russian blockade of the Black Sea
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A second overnight missile attack in as many days on Odesa was one of the most massive in the region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion says Serhiy Bratchuk of the oblast military administration. Several cruise missile and drones. There are fragments of downed missiles and drones hitting certain locations, damaged cars, broken windows in high-rise buildings. A video posted on social media purporting to show an enormous strike on a multi-storey apartment building complex
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Soon after the NATO wrapped up its summit in Lithuania, Russia responded overnight with a heavy drone attack on Kyiv - triggering fires and falling debris in several districts and killing at least one person, officials said. The body of one resident was recovered when emergency services put out a fire in the capital's historic Podil district.
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Ukrainian forces claim to have retaken two villages in the Donetsk region as a days-old counteroffensive to push Russian forces out of the country gathers steam. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, said he will not obey a new Russian Defense Ministry decree obliging all volunteer formations to sign a contract directly with the ministry in his latest spat with the nation’s military leadership.
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At least three civilians were killed and several wounded in fresh Russian shelling in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, regional authorities said on May 2, as Russian forces launched more unsuccessful attacks on Ukrainian positions in Bakhmut over the past day
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Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Mukan was killed while serving with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Bakhmut. Since October 2022, Russia has carried out 33 massive attacks on energy infrastructure facilities
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russian paramilitary group Wagner, has threatened to withdraw his troops from the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut if ammunition supply problems are not resolved. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has appealed for modern air-defense systems following one of the deadliest Russian strikes on civilian targets in recent months
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Ukraine says it has received its first Patriot air-defense systems as Russia launched a fresh wave of drone attacks on Odesa and Ukrainian defenders repelled more attacks in the eastern region of Donetsk. The United States is sending Ukraine about $325 million in additional military aid, including an enormous amount of artillery rounds and ammunition
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Ukraine is able to export electricity for the first time in six months as its energy infrastructure recovers from months of repeated Russian attacks.
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Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia's flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own
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Ukrainian military asserted on March 12 that the Russian side lost more than 1,000 troops in 24 hours as Moscow's push for the eastern city of Bakhmut continued. Large pro-Russian protests in the Moldovan capital
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On 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.
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Ukraine has been told to expect Russian missile attacks to coincide with the anniversary of the invasion, its intelligence service says. The United Nations is expected to approve a resolution that condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calls for peace as soon as possible
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While the provision of electricity across Ukraine is normalizing, among ordinary people anxieties are high that the Russians may launch another major offensive around the time of the one year anniversary of the war on February 24.
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Russia is draining a huge Ukrainian reservoir that provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands, irrigates around half-a-million acres of farmland and provides cooling to the ZNPP.
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