The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine started using ammunition filled with phosphorus in the suburbs of Kiev, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov said. "The units of the Armed Forces of Ukrain...

The flagship of the Ukrainian fleet, Hetman Sahaidachny, was destroyed in the territorial waters of Ukraine. According to the data available to date, the crew of the warship decided to personally destroy the frigate in the Ukrainian territorial water...

European countries will close the airspace for Russian aircraft, German TV channel ARD reports citing its sources, TASS reports. It remains unclear, though, when exactly the sky over EU states will be closed for Russia. However, A number of countries...

Western countries consider disconnecting Russian banks from the SWIFT international payment system, the German government said, TASS reports. New restrictions will affect the Russian banks that have been previously added on the list of sanctions. The...

The Ukrainian authorities have renounced their obligations for IAEA inspections under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the explanatory note to the letter from Ukrainian Ambassador to ...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky responded to Russia's proposal to start negotiations on the territory of Belarus, RIA Novosti reports. According to Zelensky, negotiations in Minsk are impossible. "Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku ...

Representatives for the Chinese Embassy in Russia stated that the United States was a real threat to the world. "Never forget who's the real threat to the world," Lijian Zhao, Deputy Director of the Department for Information of the Foreign Ministry ...

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...