NEW YORK: The Biden administration is preparing sanctions targeting Russian companies it says provides goods and services to Moscow’s military and intelligence services, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported yesterday. The US Treasury Department sanctions could be announced as early as next week, the report said, citing US officials. The […]
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BUCHA (Ukraine): Moscow signalled yesterday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the East as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv. In an announcement that appeared to indicate more limited goals, the Russian […]
LVIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to NATO leaders on Thursday (Mar 24) to increase military support for his country against Russian forces that he warned would next target alliance members in eastern Europe including Poland. Addressing a NATO summit in Brussels, Zelenskyy said Ukraine needed fighter jets, tanks, […]
A senior US Defence official has said that Russian ground forces have been stalled outside of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. As the Russian offensive in Ukraine continues, US President Joe Biden is set to visit Europe for an emergency NATO summit as well as meetings with G7 leaders. He will […]
The decision to deploy troops near petrol pumps and kerosene supply points came after three elderly people dropped dead during their wait in long queues, Sri Lankan officials said. Sri Lanka posted soldiers at hundreds of state-run gas stations on Tuesday to help distribute fuel after a sudden rise in […]
In Russia, the slow going and the heavy toll of President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine are setting off questions about his military’s planning capability, his confidence in his top spies and loyal defense minister, and the quality of the intelligence that reaches him. In January, the head of a […]
BEIJING: China does not want to be impacted by Western economic sanctions on Russia, state media reported today, as pressure grows on Beijing to withdraw support from an isolated Moscow. Beijing has refused to condemn its close ally Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, while blaming the United States and […]
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo took a camping trip to the country’s future capital, he said on social media today, posing for photographs in a forest at the site of the new city. The country is preparing to move its capital from overcrowded Jakarta to Nusantara, in a megaproject that […]
SEOUL: US forces stationed in South Korea said today they have enhanced the intensity of exercises for their Patriot missile air defence system amid signs that North Korea might soon conduct another long-range missile test. Tension on the Korean Peninsula has been growing amid speculation North Korea could test its […]
KYIV: Russian strikes hit civilian targets in central Ukraine’s Dnipro city today, as Moscow’s troops edged closer to Kyiv, where officials said the capital was being transformed into a “fortress”. Hundreds of thousands of civilians remained trapped and under fire in Ukrainian cities, including besieged Mariupol, after the first talks […]