The risk of drones drifting into Finland as a result of the war in Ukraine is rising, the head of the Nordic country’s military intelligence service has told AFP. AFP met Major General Pekka Turunen, Chief of Finnish Defence Intelligence, ahead of the release of a Finnish military intelligence report that updates the security situation…
US and Russian officials will meet in Miami this weekend for new talks on President Donald Trump’s plan for ending the Ukraine war, a White House official told AFon P Wednesday. The talks come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed progress during two days of meetings in Berlin between Kyiv and Trump’s envoys, while warning…
Russian overnight drone and missile strikes killed four people and wounded some 20 others in the Ukraine capital Kyiv and several other regions, authorities said Saturday. The attack comes as Kyiv’s Western allies ratchet up pressure on Russia as the war enters its fourth winter. “One rescuer was killed and another wounded as a result…
EU countries on Friday agreed to prolong sanctions over the war in Ukraine for another six months on more than 2,500 Russian individuals and entities, including President Vladimir Putin. Ambassadors from the bloc’s 27 member states signed off on the move ahead of a deadline on Monday, after Hungary and Slovakia dropped demands to take…
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine and its allies must work together to pressure Russia into ending its invasion, ahead of talks in Berlin with European leaders and US leader Donald Trump. Pressure must be exerted on Russia for the sake of a fair peace. We must learn from the experience of Ukraine and our…
Russia fired a volley of drones and missiles at Ukraine early on Monday, hitting apartment blocks and a nursery in Kyiv, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a fresh round of peace talks. Moscow has not responded to Zelensky’s call for new negotiations this week or an ultimatum by US President Donald Trump…
Russian drone and bomb fire killed at least six people across Ukraine’s east and south, local authorities said Friday, as Russia resists US President Donald Trump’s call to halt its invasion. Moscow has escalated long-range aerial attacks on Ukraine’s towns and cities as well as frontline assaults and shelling over the past weeks, defying Trump’s…
One person was killed and more than a dozen others were wounded in Russia’s latest aerial attack on Ukraine, which targeted the southern port city of Odesa, officials said on Friday. Emergency services published images of firefighters helping a woman in pyjamas climb from the window of a housing block in flames. Both Moscow and…
Nine people have been killed after a Russian drone hit a bus transporting workers in Ukraine, officials say. The attack occurred on Wednesday morning in the south-central city of Marhanets. Serhiy Lysak, regional chief of Dnipropetrovsk, said at least 30 people were injured, adding that “the number of victims is constantly growing”. The attack comes…
The United States, US, President-elect, Donald Trump, has declared that he would prevent World War three from happening. Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East upon assumption of office. He disclosed this while addressing his followers ahead of his inauguration at the White House. According to…