(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Russia, as it does many nights, has launched airstrikes on Ukraine overnight into Saturday morning, the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion in 2022.A barrage of Russian drones and missiles targeted Odesa in the south, and at least one person and two others were seriously injured when…
(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration on Friday announced more than 500 sanctions on Russia, its "enablers," and its "war machine" as the world marks two years since Russia attacked Ukraine.This is the largest single tranche since the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion, administration officials said."Today, I am announcing…
(LONDON) -- Instead of sending a deluge of troops into Avdiivka to overpower the Ukrainians holding the frontline city, Russian forces earlier this month instead began sending in just a few soldiers at a time.Two or three Russians would storm Ukrainian positions within city, followed about a half-hour later by…
(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Almost two years into Russia's invasion, with Moscow's losses estimated by Kyiv at more than 300,000 soldiers, the Ukrainian authorities launched a project called "Want To Find" to help Russian citizens find information about their relatives who went to fight in Ukraine.The launch came as a followup…
(LONDON) -- Scientists in Scotland have revealed a remarkable discovery of a "very strange" 240 million-year-old "Chinese dragon" fossil.The international team from National Museums Scotland revealed their discovery -- found in Guizhou Province in southern China -- of the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a 5-meter-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period dating…
(LONDON) -- Alexei Navalny's cause of death has been listed as "natural" on his medical report, according to Navalny's spokesperson Kira Yarmysh, who was relayed the information on the death certificate by the Russian opposition leader's mother."The medical report on death shown to the mother of Alexei Navalny stated that…
(LONDON AND NEW YORK) -- After a missile struck her home in Khartoum, Sudan, last April, Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem said she was forced to flee and has not been back since."I literally packed for a week thinking I'll come back, you know, we'll be coming back home," Abdelmoniem, a journalist-turned-activist…
(NEW YORK) -- Alexei Navalny's cause of death has been listed as "natural" on his medical report, according to Navalny's spokesperson Kira Yarmysh, who was relayed the information on the death certificate by the Russian opposition leader's mother."The medical report on death shown to the mother of Alexei Navalny stated…
(NEW YORK) -- By spring, Ukraine faces a potentially catastrophic shortage of ammunition and air defenses that could effectively turn the tide of the war and lend Russian President Vladimir Putin a significant advantage, according to an internal U.S. estimate.Speaking on condition of anonymity, two U.S. officials described "late March"…
(NEW YORK) -- Moscow's arrest of a Los Angeles woman on charges of high treason has cast a new spotlight on the steep challenges imposed by Russia's refusal to recognize almost all dual citizenships -- sharply limiting diplomats' ability to oversee the cases and intervene if warranted.Ksenia Karelina, a 33-year-old…
