A shell hit an apartment building on Lobanovsky Avenue in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The shell hit the 17th and the 8th floor, no one was killed. "On February 26, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine received information that on Lobanovsky Avenu...

Russia used cruise missiles to strike military targets in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that there was no damage caused to residential and social infrastructure. The Russian military launched a strike with the use of long-range p...

Russian troops, particularly, intelligence services, were ordered not to let former secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council, Alexander Turchynov, flee Ukraine, Mash Telegram channel reports with reference to sources at the Russian Defense Mi...

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Ukrainian military and urged them to take power in their own hands. Speaking during an operational meeting with members of the Security Council, Putin urged the Armed Forces of Ukraine shoot to let neo-N...

The Russian forces have blockaded Kiev and Chernigov. There were no losses among the Russian military. Representatives for the Russian Defence Ministry noted that residential areas would not be attacked. Air raid warnings started howling, the mayor o...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky did not get in touch with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Soon afterwards, it was reported that an airplane took off from Zhuliany airport near Kiev, even though airspace over Ukraine remains closed.  Ital...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance had no intention to deploy its forces in Ukraine. Stoltenberg has thus confirmed NATO's refusal to send alliance troops to the territory of the country. There are no NATO forces on the te...

On February 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation against Ukraine in the morning of February 24. Russia launched the ope...

Ukraine has decided to sever diplomatic relations with Russia, Ukrainian President Zelensky said, TASS reports.  On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a "special military operation" in the Donbass to "protect the r...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, after the start of the military operation in the Donbass, offered Russia and Ukraine to hold talks in Belarus capital Minsk, BelTA news agency reports. "We are the Slavs, the three Slavic peoples. Let's sit ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation announcing the beginning of a special military operation in the Donbass. Putin's speech was aired on federal television channels at around 06:00 a.m. on February 24. Putin referred to requests for...

If Germany refuses from the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, all of Europe will suffer and become a colony of the United States, Elena Panina, Director of the Institute for International Political and Economic Studies (RUSSTRAT) said, RIA Novosti reports....

Former US President Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for his bold decision to recognise the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR). In an interview with iHeart radio station, the former head of t...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has published an appeal to its citizens asking them to leave the territory of Russia, as the crisis may limit the provision of consular services. Kiev earlier admitted that Ukraine could sever diplomatic rel...

US President Joe Biden announced the first tranche of financial sanctions against Russia for Moscow's move to recognise the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR). The restrictions turned out to be milder than the measur...

Suspending the certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will cause the exchange price of natural gas in Europe to rise to 2,000 euros per thousand cubic meters, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Twitt...

The German authorities have decided to stop the certification of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. Scholz instructed the Ministry of Economy to contact the regulator. "Today I asked the Federal Ministry of Economics...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees instructing Russia's Armed Forces to maintain peace in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR). The documents, in particular, say that in connection with the appeals from the leaders of...

The head of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, and the head of the People's Republic of Luhansk, Leonid Pasechnik, appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to recognize the independence of the self-pr...

The US Embassy in Moscow explained its warning about the threat of terrorist attacks in Russia. The US Embassy made conclusions about a possibility of terrorist attacks on various public facilities in Russia based on the information about numerous in...