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25 Dec
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday denounced an "inhumane" attack from Russia, which launched over 170 missiles and drones on his war-torn country's power grid on Christmas Day, killing an energy worker. The country woke up at 5:30 am (0330 GMT) to an air raid alarm, shortly followed by air force reports that Russia had…
21 Dec
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he had met the US CIA director William Burns in Ukraine, a rare public disclosure
20 Dec
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with boxing star Oleksandr Usyk to be gentle with British rival Tyson Fury in their world heavyweight clash in case a battering delivers a knockout blow to a crucial arms deal. Usyk defeated Fury in May to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and the two men meet…
18 Nov
US President Joe Biden has cleared Kyiv to use long-range American missiles against military targets inside Russia, a US official told AFP, prompting China on Monday to call for a "cooling down of the situation". The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, was confirming reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post that…
16 Nov
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he would like to end the war with Russia next year through "diplomatic means". He spoke a day after saying he expected the conflict to end sooner than it would otherwise have done, once Donald Trump takes office in the United States next year. "For our part, we…
9 Nov
Elon Musk took part in a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President-elect Donald Trump after his election victory, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP Friday. "I confirm it," the presidency official who asked to remain anonymous told AFP, saying that the claim in a report by US news site Axios about…
2 Nov
Ukraine said on Saturday Kyiv had come under heavy drone attack overnight, as fresh explosions were heard in the capital and other regions were struck. "Unfortunately, the attack by Russian drones caused damage and casualties in various districts of Kyiv," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. He said that the "constant terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities prove…
25 Sep
Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky of refusing to "make a deal" to end his country's war with Russia. "We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky," the Republican White House candidate said in sharply critical remarks at a campaign…
7 Sep
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday, her office said, as he presses allies for
24 Aug
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday signed a law banning the Russian-linked Orthodox Church in Ukraine, with the decision published on Ukraine's parliament website. Ukraine's has been seeking to distance itself from the Russian church since 2014 and the efforts have accelerated since Russia's 2022 invasion. Zelensky approved the bill, slammed by Russia, on Kyiv's…
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