Vladimir Putin Russia Ukraine war

As Russian forces prepare for what Ukrainian officials say could be an "even bigger" offensive in the east, shelling continues to impact those living in the ...

There were dead people lying on the ground," she said. They don’t tell them about the new losses the generals expect,” Mr Zelenskyy said. Ukraine has not directly claimed responsibility for a spate of such incidents on Russian territory. By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller 'Was it worth it?... By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller By Peta Fuller

Ukraine shelling kill and injure e own civilians inside di southern region of Kherson, Russia claim on Sunday.

"A poison dey run through our democracy... Inside di town of Dobropillia for Donetsk, di shockwave from one strike on Saturday blow for di windows of one apartment building and leave a large hollow in di yard. Biden hail di courage of journalists wey dey cover di Russian invasion of Ukraine inside comments for di White House Correspondents' Association dinner inside Washington. Palamar say Russia and Ukraine dey respect one local ceasefire, and he hope say di evacuated civilians dem go move dem go di Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia to di northwest. Ukraine and di West say Russia launch one unprovoked war of aggression. Di United States and dia European friends don impose sweeping punishment on Russia economy and dey supply Ukraine with weapons and humanitarian support. President Zelenskiy say Russia dey "gather additional forces for new attacks against our military in di east of di knori" and dey "try to increase pressure inside Donbas". Moscow call dia actions a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and clear am of anti-Russian nationalism wey dey provoked by di West. Moscow assault inside di south aim na partly to link di area with Crimea as dem dey push for complete control of Ukraine eastern Donbas region. "We dey get civilians out of di wreckage with ropes - ina di elderly, women and children." Moscow don turn dia focus to Ukraine south and east afta dem fail to capture di capital Kyiv inside one nine-week assault. Ukraine shelling kill and injure e own civilians inside di southern region of Kherson, Russia claim on Sunday.

Nancy Pelosi visited Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian-occupied Kherson faces new restrictions.

But 47 percent disapprove, identical to February. The improvement is due primarily to a drop in the percentage of people who had no opinion two months ago. The expanded artillery battle follows Russia’s failed effort to rapidly seize Ukraine’s major population centers, including the capital, Kyiv. It comes as the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Western benefactors brace for what is expected to be a grinding campaign in the Donbas region. Ukraine says the alleged thefts could lead to food shortages. Mariupol: Civilian evacuations are expected to continue Sunday from a steel plant that has become a final battlefield and shelter for Ukrainian fighters and residents in this strategic port city. The regional governor of Kharkiv said battles raged around Izyum as Russian forces fought to advance. “Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.” “We plan to introduce the ruble zone [to provide] assistance, first of all, to pensioners, socially unprotected segments of the population and, of course, state employees,” Stremousov said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Speaking to Russian state television, Kirill Stremousov, a pro-Moscow politician installed after the city fell, said there would be a four-to-five-month transition away from the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia, which has been in use since 1996. There are not enough alternatives in the near term to avoid major economic pain in the coming winter if Russia shuts down supply. Spoke with— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) @SecBlinken. Grateful to the U.S. for keeping the promise to stand by Ukraine resolutely. He added that the pair “discussed the Administration’s April 28 request to Congress for $33 billion in security, economic, and humanitarian aid to empower Ukraine to defeat the Kremlin’s unconscionable war.” Blinken spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba “to follow up on their April 24 meeting in Kyiv,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Saturday in a statement.

Elderly people, women and children escape from steel works; Nancy Pelosi says US will continue to help Ukraine after Kyiv visit.

In a press conference in Poland after her visit, she was asked about whether the US was concerned by the risk of its support provoking a Russian reaction. The ministry said it had destroyed a runway and hangar at an airfield with Onyx missiles. “The question that should also be asked is whether we will hold him to account for his war crimes. Her parents, grandfather and other family members are still in Kyiv, while her brother is working for the military. And it’s kind of quite hard to believe. A video released by Russia’s defence ministry on Sunday showed vehicles bearing United Nations and Red Cross symbols. Ukraine’s most ardent supporters in the EU, such as Poland and the Baltic states, will push for a more rapid phase out of Russian oil. Russia now supplies 12% of Germany’s oil imports, compared to 35% before the Russian invasion, according to an economy ministry statement. - Civilians are being evacuated from the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol, where about 1,000 people are thought to be sheltering. It’s believed about 1,000 people are at the site. Germany plans to wean itself off Russian gas by 2024, and oil and coal much sooner. It’s believed about 1,000 people are at the site.

Christine Lambrecht Mark Milley Lloyd Austin and Oleksii Reznikov at the Ramstein air base. The conflict in Ukraine has rapidly evolved into a full proxy war ...

The U.S. role has evolved—from a reactive response to Russia’s unjustified war to a proactive assertion of American leadership and leverage. “Certainly nobody wants to see—or nobody should want to see—it escalate into the nuclear realm.” On Wednesday, he warned that he could launch a “lightning-fast” response to any nation that intervened to thwart or threaten Russia. “We have all the instruments for this, such that no one can boast of,” he said, in an apparent reference to Moscow’s nuclear and missile arsenal. Despite war weariness after two decades in Afghanistan and Iraq, roughly two-thirds of Americans believe that the U.S. has a “moral responsibility” to do more to stop the killing of civilians in Ukraine, according to a Quinnipiac poll published in mid-April. In a country polarized on most other issues, a majority from both parties agreed. “The war is an absurdity in the twenty-first century,” he said. “The war is evil.” At the start of the invasion, the U.S. invoked the principles of sovereignty, a democratically elected government, and territorial integrity. Russia has staked claims to southern Crimea, the eastern Donbas region, and the lands between them along the strategic Black Sea. Putin is not yet ready—or, perhaps, not yet under enough pressure—to negotiate seriously. The shift may have been inevitable, given the barbarism of the war, which has claimed thousands of civilian lives, and Russia’s challenge to the conventions and obligations of modern statecraft. And the costs, the threats to America and the world, keep rising.” Over the next five months, U.S. aid to Ukraine will average more than two hundred million dollars a day.) The investment, Biden said, was a small price “to lessen the risk of future conflicts” with Russia. Ahead of his invasion, he publicly expressed deep paranoia about the military alliance and its further expansion into countries once aligned with the Soviet Union. He also brokered a five-thousand-word agreement with the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, to form a de-facto alliance of authoritarian regimes.

The U.K. said that “many of these units are likely suffering from weakened morale.” Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that NATO is ...

The war is evil," he said during his visit to Ukraine, where he also met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. However, Russian state TV nightly has had guests suggest that Moscow use nuclear weapons in the conflict. Lavrov also said that negotiations continue between Russia and Ukraine "almost every day." An estimated 2,000 Ukrainian defenders and 1,000 civilians are holed up in the plant's vast underground network of bunkers, which are able to withstand airstrikes. The bank added that it was prepared to step in further to prevent inflation from spiking. "The lives of soldiers matter too. But the discussions as reported by the U.N. concerned civilians, not combatants. Lavrov — who has been sanctioned by the U.S., U.K. and Europe for his role in the war — reportedly said his country's "special operation" in Ukraine is "a response to what NATO was doing in Ukraine to prepare this country for a very aggressive posture against the Russian Federation." Lavrov said that figure included more than 300 Chinese civilians. All 27 member states must back the measure to be adopted. France has already sent 615 tons of equipment and aid to Ukraine, including generators for hospitals, ambulances and food. Here is a look at some of the devastation.

'We Can Only Be Enemies'. One family's experience of Vladimir Putin's invasion offers a path to the end of the war. By Peter Pomerantsev.

Russians might claim they don’t need the West, but at the end of the day, the goods that those Russian soldiers were so keen to ransack in Ukraine were largely Western-made. Irina seemed to believe that all she had done was survive, but in reality she and her family had done far more. All it needs is for people to stop pulling their weight, because they can see that the government is no longer competent or acting in their interests. I met with him alongside Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum to interview him for The Atlantic, and when I told him I was born in Kyiv, he spoke to me without ever breaking eye contact—he had found his common ground with me. As they walked through what little was left of the Horbonoses’ lives, the soldiers apologized for all the destruction they had brought. Even for the legions of Russians who buy into the conspiracy theories—that their country is under threat from the U.S., that Russia deserves an empire—there is the issue of whether the Kremlin is competent enough to pursue such ambitions. When the Russians would leave the cellar for a drink or a smoke, they would invite Sergey to join them. Three others were in their 40s—two had served in Syria; one’s face had been burned when a vehicle he was in detonated a mine on the way to Lukashivka, and he would curse as he rubbed his face with ointment. “What’s the point of this war?” Despondently, the Russians would answer that they had come expecting not a fight but a celebration. All four of them were from Siberia. The fifth was also in his 40s, a Tatar, an ethnic group with its own large republic in central Russia. The others found his incessant singing of Tatar tunes annoying, and would tease him for his apparent cowardice, because he always seemed to be the first to scamper into the cellar when artillery barrages began. The Horbonoses—Irina, 55; Sergey, 59; and their 25-year-old son, Nikita—spent the next night in a neighbor’s cellar, but it was so wet and cold that they returned to theirs. At first, the Horbonoses were too scared to talk to their Russian housemates.