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Published by uPolitics.com Russian prosecutors have warned Western companies, such as McDonald’s, IBM and Coca-Cola that their criticism of the country’s invasion of Ukraine could prompt arrests of corporate leaders or seizure of assets in Russia. One company has already moved to cut off communications between its Russian businesses from the rest of the company […]

Published by AFP Kyiv (AFP) – Ukraine accused Russia Thursday of bombing a theatre that was sheltering more than 1,000 civilians in the city of Mariupol, after US President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”. The latest assaults on civilians across Ukraine came as President Volodymyr Zelensky made a searing appeal for help

Published by Reuters UK By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – The United States warned China against providing military or financial help to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, as sanctions on Russian political and business leaders mounted and civilians sought to flee intense fighting on the ground. Further talks between Ukrainian

Published by AFP Kyiv (AFP) – A series of powerful explosions rocked Kyiv early Tuesday even as talks between Ukraine and Russia were set to resume. At least three large blasts were heard in the centre of the capital early Tuesday, and an AFP journalist saw a column of smoke rising.  The cause was not

Published by Reuters By David Brunnstrom, Andrea Shalal and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan plans to meet China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome on Monday and will stress the economic penalties Beijing will face if it helps Russia in its war in Ukraine, U.S. officials say. Sullivan will

Published by Reuters UK (Reuters) – Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine are stepping up, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk again after both sides cited progress over the weekend, while high-level U.S. officials are talking to European and Chinese counterparts. There’s been no let up in violence, however, with Russian

Published by Reuters By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine were stepping up on Monday, with Ukrainian and Russian negotiators set to talk again after both sides cited progress, even after Russia attacked a base near the Polish border and fighting raged elsewhere. A

Published by DPA NATO expects the fighting and the humanitarian emergency in Ukraine to further intensify some two weeks after the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. “We see with horror the rising numbers of civilian casualties and the senseless destruction by Russian forces. The people of Ukraine are resisting with courage and

Published by Reuters UK By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian forces launched a missile attack on a large Ukrainian military facility near the Polish border on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, in what appeared to be the westernmost attack of the war. “The occupiers launched an air strike on the International

Published by Al-Araby Russian forces inched towards Kyiv early on Saturday and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where officials said more than 1,500 people had been killed. Air raid sirens sounded in several cities, including the capital Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro and Kharkiv, according