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The Ukrainian president says Vladimir Putin is the only Russian official he is willing to meet with a single issue on the agenda – to stop the war. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is the only Russian official he is willing to meet, with the …

Ukrainian president has called for an oil embargo, blocking all of Moscow’s banks and cutting off trade completely. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for “maximum” sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech to corporate executives, government officials and other elites on the first day of the World Economic Forum …

A veteran Russian diplomat to the United Nations office in Geneva has handed in his resignation and sent a statement to foreign colleagues criticising the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. Boris Bondarev, who worked as a counsellor at Russia’s permanent mission to the UN in …

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has met with a divided response among African countries. Senegalese President Macky Sall has said he is travelling to Russia and Ukraine soon on behalf of the African Union, whose presidency he currently holds. At a joint press conference with visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on …

The ruble’s rebound has left it more than 30 percent stronger against the dollar than it was before Russia invaded Ukraine. The ruble’s blistering rebound picked up pace on Monday, ratcheting up pressure on Russia to ease a key capital-flow control that’s underpinned the currency’s recovery. With the gains now …

If a country’s strength is its people, then Russia might be in trouble. According to official statistics, nearly four million Russians left the country in the first three months of 2022. “We were very afraid of being questioned at the Russian border as we heard they didn’t want to let IT …

Luhansk governor accuses Russia of indiscriminately shelling Severodonetsk, which has only one working hospital left with three doctors. Heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces has continued in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, as Moscow’s troops pressed on with their advance on Severodonetsk, where local officials accused Russia of using “scorched-earth” …

Andrzej Duda becomes the first foreign leader to address Ukraine’s parliament since the start of Russia’s war. Poland’s president has travelled to Kyiv to become the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukrainian legislators stood on Sunday to applaud Polish …

Listen to this story: Since the war in Ukraine started on February 24, more than three million Ukrainians have fled across the border to Poland. The Polish state and society mobilised rapidly to ensure that Ukrainian refugees were made to feel welcome. Ukrainians are entitled to receive an initial 300 …

Everyone has by now heard about the latest gaffe by former United States president and unconvicted war criminal George W Bush, father of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and other fantastically bloody escapades. In a recent speech at his very own George W Bush Presidential Centre in Dallas, Texas, …