Category: Russia-Ukraine War

UK and Ukraine Ministers Lambast ‘Defeatist Voices’ Seeking to ‘Sell out Ukraine’

Foreign ministers of the UK and Ukraine on Saturday criticised “defeatist voices” from those they said are proposing to “sell out Ukraine for a quick end to the unrelenting horror.” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba said both Ukraine and the free world “do not have the luxury to feel…


UK, Ukraine Ministers Criticize ‘Defeatist Voices’ Seeking to ‘Sell Out Ukraine’

Foreign ministers of the UK and Ukraine on Saturday criticised “defeatist voices” from those they said are proposing to “sell out Ukraine for a quick end to the unrelenting horror.” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba said both Ukraine and the free world “do not have the luxury to feel…


Boris Johnson Says Plan B Needed to Export Food out of Ukraine

The United Nations’ plan to negotiate a safe corridor for Ukraine’s grain exports to get past the Russian blockade is probably a “non-starter,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday. He urged world leaders to think about a “plan B,” and offered the UK’s expertise on remote de-mining and maritime insurance for commercial vessels to get…


Russian Forces Fire Missiles on Ukraine From Belarus: Kyiv

A barrage of missiles was fired from Belarus on Saturday as Kyiv accused Moscow of dragging Minsk into the war even as Belarus has officially stayed out of the conflict. At around 5 a.m. on June 25, 20 rockets targeted the village of Desna in the northern Chernihiv region of Ukraine, according to the country’s…


UN Chief Warns of Food Shortage ‘Catastrophe’

BERLIN—The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. “There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and developing countries gathered…


Sievierodonetsk Falls to Russia After One of War’s Bloodiest Fights

KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine—Russian forces have fully occupied Sievierodonetsk, the mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city said on Saturday, confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month, after weeks of some of the war’s bloodiest fighting. Ukraine called its retreat from the city a “tactical withdrawal” to fight from higher ground in Lysychansk on the…


Russian Missiles Strike Across Ukraine, Says Kyiv

KYIV—Russian missiles rained down across Ukraine on Saturday, hitting military facilities in the west and the north as well as a southern city. Russian artillery and air strikes pounded the twin cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in the eastern Luhansk region on Friday, smashing into a chemical plant where hundreds of civilians were said to…


US Long-Range Rocket Systems Arrive in Ukraine: Minister

Ukraine said on Thursday it had received U.S. supplies of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), a powerful long-range weapon system that Kyiv hopes can help turn the tide on Russia’s invasion. Moscow’s forces are advancing in Ukraine’s east in a bid to capture the industrial heartland known as the Donbass where Ukraine fears some…


Russia Blames US for Kaliningrad Transit Restrictions

MOSCOW—Moscow’s foreign ministry on Friday blamed the United States for a Lithuanian ban on sanctioned goods crossing from the Russian mainland to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which has increased already high tensions between Moscow and the West. “The so-called ‘collective West’, with the explicit instruction of the White House, imposed a ban on rail…


Ukrainians Set to Quit Embattled Sievierodonetsk as Russians Inch Forward

KYIV—Ukraine signaled on Friday its troops were withdrawing from the city of Sievierodonetsk, scene of weeks of heavy fighting, a move that would be a significant setback in its struggle to defeat Russian forces. Provincial governor Serhiy Gaidai said troops in the city had already received the order to move to new positions, but he…