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MILITARY CONFLICTS
McDonald’s to sell Russia business and exit country over Ukraine war
McDonald’s is closing its doors in Russia, ending an era of optimism and increasing the country’s isolation over its war in Ukraine. The Chicago burger giant confirmed Monday that it is selling its 850 restaurants in Russia. McDonald’s said it will seek a buyer who will employ its 62,000 workers in Russia, and will continue […]
Ceasefire reached to evacuate wounded from Azovstal plant in Ukraine’s Mariupol
Russia’s defense ministry said Monday that an agreement has been reached to evacuate injured soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol. “An agreement was reached with representatives of the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal in Mariupol to evacuate the wounded,” the ministry said, adding that a “regime of silence” was […]
Ukraine says troops defending Kharkiv have reached Russian border
Ukraine said troops defending Kharkiv had repelled Russian forces and advanced as far as the border with Russia
Israeli ‘aggression’ targeted Syria’s Quneitra
Syrian state news agency SANA reported early on Wednesday that an act of “Israeli aggression” was carried out with missiles over the vicinity of the Quneitra governate’s countryside in southern Syria. The missile attack resulted in only physical damage, SANA added. The Israeli military declined to comment. For several years, Israel has been mounting attacks […]
Ukrainian TB2 struck Russian Mi-8 just as troops are disembarking
KYIV— Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2 continues to inflict serious damage on Russia’s armed forces. A video taken by a drone showing a Russian helicopter landing appeared on social media. The source claims that this is a military Russian Mil Mi-8 medium twin-turbine helicopter. Photo credit: TASS Ukraine’s Bayraktr TB2 is waiting, aiming, and as troops descend […]
Russia pounds Odesa as civilian bodies uncovered elsewhere
Strikes came the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country’s biggest patriotic holiday without being able to boast of major new battlefield successes
Putin says Donbass volunteers fighting for Motherland
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that troops and volunteers fighting in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region were fighting for their Motherland. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that troops and volunteers fighting in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region were fighting for their Motherland. “You are fighting for your Motherland, its future,” he […]
Zelenskyy says 60 civilians dead in Ukraine school after Russian bombing
Sixty civilians died in Russia’s bombing of a school in Ukraine’s Lugansk region this weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday. “Just yesterday in the village of Bilohorivka, Lugansk region, a Russian bomb killed 60 people. Civilians. They were sheltering from shelling in a regular school which was hit by a Russian air strike,” Zelenskyy […]
Russia hits US-supplied weapons at railway station in Ukraine
Russia’s defense ministry said on Sunday it destroyed weapons and military equipment supplied by the US and other Western countries at a railway station near the Ukrainian town of Soledar, state news agency TASS reported. Russian air force used “high-precision air-launched missiles” in the strike, Russian defense ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said. He […]
