Author: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has decried the “absurdity” of Moscow’s war in Ukraine as Russia steps up its large-scale offensive in the east more than two months after it invaded its neighbor. The U.N. chief, who arrived in Kyiv on April 28 following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow the day...

U.S. President Joe Biden has approved $800 million in new military assistance for Ukraine to fight Russia, including helicopters, artillery, ammunition and other weapons. Mr. Biden announced the new package of aid on April 13 after a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “This new package of assistance will contain many of the highly effective...

U.S. President Joe Biden has approved $800 million in new military assistance for Ukraine to fight Russia, including helicopters, artillery, ammunition and other weapons. Mr. Biden announced the new package of aid on April 13 after a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “This new package of assistance will contain many of the highly effective...

The presidents of Poland and all three Baltic states visited the town of Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv, on April 13 in a show of support for Ukraine. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the town was “permeated with pain and suffering” after civilians were murdered and tortured there and residential homes and other civilian infrastructure were...

Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members to provide Kyiv with all the weapons it needs in its battle with Russian forces as Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine entered its seventh week. “My agenda is very simple. It has only three items on it. Its weapons,...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council over reports of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights” by invading Russian troops in Ukraine. The resolution received 93 votes in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions. The U.S.-initiated resolution adopted by the 193-member General Assembly expres­sed...

Russia has continued shelling and launching missile strikes in Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv despite pledging it would reduce military activity around the area as Ukraine’s military dismissed the Russian promises and braced for further heavy fighting in the east. In an overnight video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was seeing a build-up...

U.S. President Joe Biden says President Vladimir Putin miscalculated Western resolve before launching Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and didn’t think Western countries would remain unified in their use of sanctions and support for arming Ukrainian forces. Mr. Biden told reporters at a news conference in Brussels that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had built greater...

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a nonbinding resolution demanding the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and an immediate halt to the war. The resolution, approved on March 24 at U.N. headquarters in New York, was favored by 140 countries in the 193-member assembly. Four countries – Syria, Belarus, North Korea...

The mayor of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol says more than 1,000 people were sheltering in a theater that was hit by a Russian air strike on March 16, leaving many civilians trapped and an unknown number of casualties. Mayor Vadym Boichenko posted the information on his Telegram channel early on March 17, calling...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on the U.S. Congress and U.S. President Joe Biden to provide further military assistance to help protect the skies over Ukraine and he urged further sanctions against Russia in an address to a meeting of the House of Representatives and the Senate. “Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into...

A Russian air strike has devastated a maternity hospital in the beleaguered port city of Mariupol and wounded at least 17 people, Ukrainian officials said, triggering international condemnation from Washing­ton, London and the Vatican, among others. The hospital bombing came as humanitarian corridors set up to let civilians flee several besieged cities around Ukraine failed...