Ukraine mourns dead from major Russian strike, vows response with underground weapons production
Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the war in Ukraine began.
Funeral services were held Saturday for victims of one of the deadliest Russian airstrikes since the war in Ukraine began.
OneWhale, a nonprofit specifically founded to protect Hvaldimir, and NOAH, a Norwegian animal rights group, said this week that they had filed a police report with local law enforcement and the state authorities charged with investigating environmental crimes.
Several eastern European states continue to receive Russian gas through a pipeline that crosses Ukraine. That agreement ends this year. One alternative that’s been discussed is for European companies to buy fuel from Azerbaijan.
Thousands of mourners gathered Friday for funeral services in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for victims of a Russian missile attack that killed seven people, including a mother and her three daughters.
Kosovo-Serbia ties remain tense and the 13-year-long normalization talks facilitated by the European Union have failed to make progress.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s pleas for long-range weapons meant to strike deeper into Russia were met with a cool response from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday at a gathering of more than 50 nations involved in planning military aid to war-torn Ukraine.
The Netherlands’ defense ministry has announced a major plan to “future-proof” the country’s military, including buying more F-35 fighter jets and the return of a Dutch tank battalion as it gears up to face a world of expanding threats.
The appointment of the 73-year-old Barnier follows weeks of intense efforts by Macron and his aides to find a candidate who might be able to build loose groupings of backers in parliament and survive promised attempts by Macron’s opponents to quickly topple the new government.