Ukraine confirms it will play on in Euro 2024 qualifiers

Ukraine will continue playing Euro 2024 qualifying matches despite a government ban on Ukrainian national teams taking part in competitions involving athletes from Russia and Belarus. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine will continue playing Euro 2024 qualifying matches despite a government ban on Ukrainian national teams taking part in competitions involving athletes from Russia […]

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Threatened by war, Ukrainian paintings find safe haven in Switzerland

Visitors look at paintings from the collection of the National Art Gallery of Kyiv during the “From Dusk To Dawn” exhibition at the Rath Museum in Geneva, Switzerland February 22, 2023 | Photo Credit: Reuters When Russia sent troops into Ukraine a year ago, the director of the Kyiv National Art Gallery had only one […]

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Sean Penn’s documentary on Ukraine war to premiere at Berlin Film Festival

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, talks with U.S. actor Sean Penn in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) | Photo Credit: AP American actor and director Sean Penn will premiere a documentary he filmed in Kyiv featuring Ukrainian President […]

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At G-20 meet, FIFA boss urges ceasefire in Ukraine during World Cup

FIFA President Gianni Infantino attends a working lunch at the G20 Summit on November 15, 2022 in Nusa Dua, Indonesia. | Photo Credit: via Reuters The chief of football’s world governing body FIFA issued a plea on Tuesday for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine for the duration of the World Cup, calling for […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russia steps up attacks across Ukraine’s north, east, south

Here are the latest developments from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict on July 17 Here are the latest developments from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict on July 17 Russian forces fired missiles and shells at cities and towns across Ukraine on July 17 after Russia’s military announced it was stepping up its onslaught against its neighbour. Ukraine […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | War overshadows G20 meeting today

Here are the latest developments from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict on July 7 Here are the latest developments from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict on July 7 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has flown into Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for a meeting of G20 foreign ministers, which is set to be overshadowed by tensions triggered […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russia may set up military base in Ukraine’s Kherson region

A captured Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a civilian was sentenced by a Ukrainian court on May 24 to life in prison — the maximum — amid signs the Kremlin may, in turn, put on trial some of the fighters who surrendered at Mariupol’s steelworks. Meanwhile, in a rare public expression of opposition […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russian offensive turns to key Donbas city, heavy shelling

Concern mounted on May 22 over the fate of the Ukrainian fighters who became Moscow’s prisoners as Russia claimed seizure of the steel plant-turned-fortress in Mariupol, capping a nearly three-month siege that left the strategic port city in ruins and more than 20,000 city residents feared dead. The Russian Defence Ministry released a video of […]

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Ukraine rules out ceasefire as fighting intensifies in Donbas

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland, as Polish President Andrzej Duda prepared to address the Ukrainian parliament on Sunday. After ending weeks of resistance by the last Ukrainian fighters in the strategic southeastern city of Mariupol, […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Ukrainian negotiator rules out ceasefire or concessions to Russia

Concern mounted on May 21 over Ukrainian fighters who became prisoners at the end of Russia’s brutal three-month siege of Mariupol, as a Moscow-backed separatist leader vowed they would face tribunals. Russia claimed full control of the Azovstal steel plant, which for weeks was the last holdout in Mariupol and a symbol of Ukrainian tenacity […]

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