Category: News Desk

Thu 17 March 2022: US President Joe Biden’s reference to Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” over his military operation in Ukraine is “unacceptable and unforgivable,” the Kremlin has said. “We believe such rhetoric to be unacceptable and unforgivable on the part of the head of a state, whose bombs have killed hundreds […]

Thu 17 March 2022: Ukraine claimed Wednesday that Russia had destroyed a theatre harbouring more than a thousand people in the besieged port city of Mariupol, with the toll as yet unknown. Bombing on theatre came after US President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”. “Today, the invaders destroyed the Drama Theatre. A […]

Wed 16 March 2022: President Vladimir Putin has said Russia would achieve its goals in Ukraine and would not submit to what he called a Western attempt to achieve global dominance and dismember Russia. “Behind the hypocritical talk and today’s actions of the so-called collective West are hostile geopolitical goals. They just don’t want a […]

Wed 16 March 2022: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday ordered Russia to cease military actions in Ukraine immediately, in a preliminary decision in a case brought by Kyiv. “The Russian Federation shall immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on Feb 24, 2022 on the territory of Ukraine,” judges at the […]

Wed 16 March 2022: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, nearly three weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine, that the alliance wants to “remove any room for miscalculation” in Moscow about its willingness to defend all members of the alliance. “At the meeting today, we will also not only address the immediate consequences […]

Wed 16 March 2022: The Russia-Ukraine peace talks are not easy, but there is hope for finding a compromise, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking in an interview with the Russian RBC TV Channel, Lavrov said his assessment is based on the information provided by the Russian delegation at the peace talks with […]