At least seven people have been killed and 22 injured in shelling in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv in the past 24 hours. That says the governor of the area in an online message. A 2-year-old boy is said to have been one of the fatalities in the […]
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Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2.66 million people have fled to Poland. According to the Polish border guard, 28,500 people entered the country on Sunday, slightly less than on Saturday. About 19,400 people also returned to Ukraine on Sunday. These were mainly Ukrainian citizens, according to Poland. At […]
Special Ukrainian units are, according to Moscow, busy creating staged images of “peaceful civilians” who are said to have been murdered by Russians in several places. The images should be circulated in Western media and show that the Russian armed forces committed war crimes. For example, they should encourage […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on his election victory. He is confident he will be able to forge a stronger “partnership” with Hungary “despite the difficult international situation,” the Kremlin reported. Orban’s conservative nationalist party Fidesz won the parliamentary elections by a large margin […]
Nearly 300,000 refugees from Ukraine have been registered in Germany, the Interior Ministry reported. There are currently 294,508 persons known to the German authorities, increasing more than 16 percent compared to a week earlier. As in other countries, the group of refugees mainly consists of women, children and the […]
Ukraine’s security service SSU says it has shut down more than 100,000 fake social media accounts for spreading disinformation since the war with Russia began. According to the SSU, the network of bots consists of five ‘bot farms’, managing more than 100,000 social media accounts. They would be operated […]
On Thursday afternoon, Joe Biden will become the first US president ever to attend a summit of the heads of state or government of the European Union. His presence mainly underlines the close cooperation in the confrontation with the Russian aggressor in Ukraine. Still, some in Europe are also […]
Russian diplomats and other government officials are no longer welcome in the European Parliament. The same goes for representatives of ally Belarus, helping Russia in the war in neighbouring Ukraine. “In the house of democracy, there is no place for those who destroy the democratic order,” said President Roberta […]
Referring to the Cold War, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has asked Germany for help in tearing down a new “wall” of Russia in Europe. He did so in his video message to the Bundestag. According to Zelenski, it is not about “a Berlin wall”, referring to the years of […]
Russia threatens to cut off gas supplies to Europe if the West goes ahead and boycotts Russian oil. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said. “That would have catastrophic consequences for the global gas distribution and will double the price of oil,” Novak said. He’s talking about potential prices of […]
