Ukraine News
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:54:28 +0000Ukrainian Wins Global Student Prize
A 17-year-old resident of Kyiv has won the Chegg.Org Global Student Prize – an award given to one exceptional student for “having a real impact on learning, the lives of their peers and on society as a whole.” This was announced on Face...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:31:35 +0000Pressure On Putin As Reservists Called Up For War – Round-Up
Pressure ratcheted up on President Vladimir Putin as his decision to send reservists to Ukraine triggered spreading protests and hundreds of arrests at home, and Western leaders tore into the Russian leader at the United Nations. Training his fire on...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:23:59 +0000Putin’s Troop call-up Will Prolong But Not Win War: experts
Western experts predicted Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new troop mobilization would prolong the war but not change the balance on the ground, and warned against downplaying his renewed nuclear threat. Putin announced the ca...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:23:30 +0000EU Ministers Agree to Press Ahead with New Russia Sanctions
European Union foreign ministers agreed on Wednesday Sep. 21 to prepare new sanctions on Russia and increase weapons’ deliveries to Kyiv after President Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s first wartime mobilisation since World War Two t...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:14:25 +0000EU to Support Ukraine’s Efforts to Liberate All Territories Occupied by Russia
On the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, EU High Representative Josep Borrell convened an ad-hoc meeting of EU Foreign Ministers late on Sep. 21, following which a declaration on Russia’s war of aggression agains...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:55:10 +0000Turkey Condemns Russia’s ‘illegitimate’ Votes in Ukraine
Turkey on Wednesday, Sep 21, condemned Russia’s “illegitimate” plans to hold annexation referendums in four Moscow-controlled regions of Ukraine. “Such illegitimate fait accomplis will not be recognised by the international co...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:54:23 +0000Zelensky Presents ‘Ukraine’s Peace Formula’ to UN General Assembly
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky presented the “Ukraine’s peace formula” while speaking via video link at the UN General Assembly. “So, all five items of our formula: punishment for aggression; protection of life; resto...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:39:27 +0000Biden Brings carrot-and-stick Diplomacy to UN
US President Joe Biden took a big carrot to the Big Apple for his UN speech — and for the Russians, an even bigger stick. In an approximately half-hour address Wednesday to the UN General Assembly, Biden covered a litany of global problems, fro...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:39:04 +0000Borrell Calls on China to Influence Russia to End Its War in Ukraine
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, at a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 21, called on his Chinese colleague to influence ...
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:20:51 +0000Truss at UN Vows UK Military Aid ‘Until Ukraine Prevails’
British Prime Minister Liz Truss vowed Wednesday, Sep. 21, before the United Nations to keep up military aid to war-ravaged Ukraine until it triumphs against Russia. Truss became the latest Western leader at the UN General Assembly in New York to rai...