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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
4/24/2022 1:45:57 PM
The United Nations Ukraine crisis coordinator, Amin Awad, on Sunday called for an "immediate stop" to fighting in Mariupol to allow the evacuation of trapped civilians in the battered city "today".
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/23/2022 9:04:19 PM
Ukrainian officials Saturday accused Russia of thwarting a fresh attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol and killing six people in a strike on Odessa, all but burying hopes of a truce for Orthodox Easter.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/14/2022 6:00:47 PM
Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet with missiles, and one official said Thursday that the vessel sank. Russia said the Moskva was badly damaged by a fire that forced the warship's evacuation but that it was still afloat.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
4/6/2022 8:47:04 PM
Skirmishes echoing in the distance. Sleeping in a car, or a couple of nights in a Ukrainian monastery in the war zone. Driving gingerly through countless checkpoints staffed by jumpy Ukrainian or Russian soldiers.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/30/2022 6:05:31 PM
The UN human rights chief says her office is looking into allegations that some residents of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol have been forcibly evacuated to areas controlled by Russian forces or to Russia itself.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/27/2022 7:24:52 PM
The International Committee of the Red Cross has denied accusations that it helped organise or carry out forced evacuations of Ukrainians to Russia.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/20/2022 6:18:07 PM
The Mariupol City Council has issued a statement claiming that its residents are being evacuated to Russia against their will and one Ukrainian lawmaker says those people are being taken for forced labor in remote parts of Russia.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/16/2022 5:50:38 PM
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for an end to the ``bloodshed and tears'' from the conflict in Ukraine during a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/9/2022 12:06:16 AM
Corpses lie in the streets of Mariupol. Hungry people break into stores in search of food and melt snow for water. Thousands huddle in basements, trembling at the sound of Russian shells pounding this strategic port city.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/8/2022 10:21:07 AM
Safe corridors intended to let Ukrainian civilians escape the Russian onslaught could open Tuesday, Kremlin officials said, though Ukrainian leaders were skeptical since prior efforts to establish evacuation routes crumbled amid renewed attacks.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/8/2022 9:28:41 AM
Russian officials said they planned to carry out a limited cease-fire on Tuesday to allow civilians to safely flee besieged Ukrainian cities, something Ukrainian officials said they would believe only after safe evacuations begin, after two earlier attempts at cease-fires failed.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/7/2022 12:19:54 PM
Even as Russia announced a ceasefire starting Monday morning and the opening of humanitarian corridors in several areas, its armed forces continued to pummel Ukrainian cities, with multiple rocket launchers hitting residential buildings.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
3/6/2022 5:53:51 PM
Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a telephone call with the French president blamed Kyiv for failed civilian evacuations from the key Ukrainian port city of Mariupol which is surrounded by Russian troops, the Kremlin said Sunday.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
3/6/2022 5:13:55 PM
The civilian safe passage from Ukraine's besieged eastern port city of Mariupol was "halted" on Sunday for a second consecutive day, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/5/2022 1:36:44 PM
The Ukrainian president's office says civilian evacuations have halted in an area of the country where Russian defense officials had announced a cease-fire, as Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any country that sought to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine would be considered by Moscow to have entered the conflict.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/5/2022 9:53:40 AM
The Russian military is observing a ceasefire in two areas of Ukraine to allow civilians to evacuate, Russian state media reported Saturday, but there was no immediate confirmation from Ukraine. It would be the first breakthrough in allowing civilians to escape the war.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/1/2022 4:40:13 PM
Egypt will send a plane to Romania’s capital of Bucharest on Tuesday to repatriate Egyptian students who crossed the border of war-torn Ukraine into its western neighbour.
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World
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International
2/18/2022 6:59:49 PM
Spiking tensions in eastern Ukraine on Friday aggravated Western fears of a Russian invasion and a new war on the edge of Europe, with a humanitarian convoy hit by shelling and pro-Russian rebels ordering the evacuation of civilians from the conflict zone.
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World
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International
2/12/2022 7:30:52 PM
The United States is evacuating almost all of the staff from its embassy in Kyiv as Western intelligence officials warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent.
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World
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International
2/5/2022 12:41:26 AM
The military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber, carrying 20 pounds of explosives packed with ball bearings, acted alone, and that the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were not preventable.
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