Jerusalem is a constructive place to hold ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Saturday as he gave a positive boost to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s efforts to mediate an end to the war.
Fearing a world war, U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday his country would not intervene militarily against Russia in Ukraine, as Russian forces stepped up their bombardment across Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of genocide after a Russian airstrike hit a children’s hospital in Ukraine’s besieged southern city of Mariupol.
With the war in Ukraine in its second week, the first rift among NATO allies is how to deliver Polish fighter jets to the country.
Russia shattered ceasefire talks as it prepared for a massive assault on Kyiv, the capital, and continued shelling several cities, Ukrainian officials, and witnesses said.
Russia said Monday it would halt fire to allow civilians in the capital Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities to escape after being accused of shelling civilian targets in deadly attacks.
The United Nations says more than 1.5 million people have now fled Ukraine into neighboring countries as the country faces mounting attacks by some 200,000 Russian troops. The refugee crisis comes as Russian forces respond to Ukraine’s resistance by targeting “populated areas” in several cities, witnesses say.
At least 272 clerics in the Russian Orthodox Church — the faith often aligned with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin — have signed an online letter calling for an immediate end of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the withdrawal of all troops and weapons.
Up to 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery strike on Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Okhtyrka, several sources say.
Ukrainian authorities say troops from Belarus have entered a region in northern Ukraine to join the Russian invasion of the country. A Belarusian column of some 33 units reportedly entered the area of Chernihiv on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the West to impose a no-fly zone for Russian aircraft over Ukraine after Moscow bombarded the country’s second-largest city Kharkiv and ceasefire talks broke off.
Amid relentless attacks by Russian forces, negotiators for Kyiv and Moscow have begun ceasefire talks in Belarus. But expectations were not high as the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its 5th day.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has turned down an offer by the United States to be evacuated from Kyiv despite Russian forces encircling the capital.
Hungary’s foreign minister says Budapest wants to host peace talks between neighboring Ukraine and Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that a military conflict with Russia would not just involve Ukraine but lead to a full scale war in Europe.
Israeli airstrikes hit four Hamas weapons storage sites in the Gaza Strip late Saturday evening in response to a shooting attack on the border that critically wounded a border guard, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel’s cabinet held emergency talks Friday after the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah said it fired “dozens of rockets” from Lebanon into Israel.
The leadership of the Hamas terrorist group met in the Gaza Strip on Monday to consolidate a ceasefire agreement with Israel but failed to reach an understanding.
The IDF carried out a series of airstrikes throughout the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning in response to over two dozen fires in southern Israel caused by incendiary devices launched from the coastal enclave.
Israel’s main opposition leader says he has reached a deal to oust long-time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who claimed victory in recent military clashes with Palestinian militants.