This Is Beirut, 2024-08-13 18:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine said on Tuesday it would not hold on to Russian territory captured in its surprise cross-border incursion and offered to stop raids if Moscow agreed to a "just peace." Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk region last Tuesday, taking over two dozen settlements in the biggest attack by a foreign army on Russian soil since World War II. ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-08-08 15:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukrainian troops have advanced up to 10 kilometers (six miles) into Russia in possibly the most serious border incursion of the conflict, the Institute for the Study of War said on Thursday. Pro-Kyiv forces stormed into Russia's southwestern Kursk region on Tuesday morning, deploying around 1,000 troops and more than two dozen armored vehicles ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-07-15 17:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Russia should be represented at a second summit aiming to secure lasting peace with the Kremlin, after more than two years of war. Both sides have shunned direct peace talks since negotiations between Russian and Ukraine delegations fell through in the early weeks of Russia's invasion ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-07-10 20:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Ukraine United States Volodymyr Zelensky
NATO allies announced on Wednesday that they started the long-promised transfer of F-16 jets to Ukraine as leaders meet for a summit in Washington clouded by political uncertainties in the United States. With the pomp of the three-day gathering in the US capital, President Joe Biden is aiming to rally the West and reassure US voters amid intense ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-07-08 14:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Russia struck cities across Ukraine on Monday with a missile barrage that killed three dozen people and ripped open a children's hospital in Kyiv, an assault condemned as a ruthless attack on civilians. Dozens of volunteers including hospital staff and rescue workers dug through debris from the Okhmatdyt pediatric hospital in a desperate search ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-07-02 11:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for a surprise visit to the war-torn country by the EU and NATO's most vocal critic of Western support for Kyiv. Orban has not visited Kyiv since Russia invaded in February 2022 and has publicly hit out at Europe's financial and military aid, temporarily blocking a 50-billion ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-27 19:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
European Union Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday signed a 10-year security pact with the European Union in Brussels, the latest deal aimed at shoring up long-term support for Kyiv in its fight with Russia. Days after the EU said it was opening formal membership negotiations with Kyiv, Zelensky attended a summit of EU leaders to meet with some ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-26 00:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 90 prisoners of war each in the biggest swap between the two warring sides in almost five months, officials said Tuesday. Moscow and Kyiv have carried out over 50 prisoner exchanges since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago, despite ongoing hostilities and both sides accusing each other of derailing ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-25 10:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
European Union Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
The European Union formally launches accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday, setting the fragile ex-Soviet states off on a long path towards membership that Russia has tried to block. The landmark move is aimed in particular at sending a vote of confidence in Ukraine's future as Moscow has momentum on the battlefield almost ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-19 19:48 - Reading : less than a minute
European Union Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine said Wednesday it would soon sign a security agreement with the European Union, the latest in a series of accords that it hopes will ensure military aid for years to come as it battles Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky last week hailed an "unprecedented" 10-year security deal agreed with the United States as a "bridge" to NATO ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-07 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Ukraine United States Volodymyr Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the West on Friday to do more to achieve a fair peace as Ukraine battles the Russian invasion, telling US leader Joe Biden that Kyiv is counting on “shoulder-to-shoulder” support. One day after Western leaders went to northern France to mark the 80-year anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II, ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-06 22:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Ukraine United Kingdom United States Volodymyr Zelensky
United States President Joe Biden warned, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, that democracy around the world was at risk, as leaders marked the 1944 landings in occupied France that helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Biden, Britain's King Charles III, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron ...