Sun 13 March 2022: Pope Francis on Sunday called the Russian invasion of Ukraine an “unacceptable armed aggression” as he urged for a diplomatic end to the war and the establishment of humanitarian corridors. In his statements, Pope Francis expressed horror over “the barbarity of the killing of children” and unarmed civilians and urged for […]
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t.me/ukraina_novosti (Photo: themoscowtimes.com) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sun 13 March 2022: Russian forces have been accused of using illegal phosphorus weapons in an overnight attack in Ukraine. Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman has accused Russia of using banned phosphorus munitions in an overnight attack on the town of Popasna in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region. The ombudswoman, Liudmila Denisova, shared […]
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Sun 13 March 2022: Former U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that the situation in Ukraine will get worse, claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin would not stop his invasion. “This could lead to World War III,” Trump said during a rally in the state of South Carolina. “I see what’s happening. Because if you think […]
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Sun 13 March 2022: Nine people died and 57 were injured in Russian air strikes overnight on a Ukrainian military base close to the city of Lviv, the city’s mayor said Sunday. “Unfortunately we have 9 dead. 57 people were injured,” Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadoviy wrote on Telegram. Russian troops launched multiple air strikes on […]
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Sun 13 March 2022: Kurdish officials claim a dozen ballistic missiles fired from outside Iraq struck Erbil, the country’s northern Kurdish regional capital, with no injuries. There was no immediate claim of responsibility or additional information. Erbil Governor Omed Khoshnaw had earlier told Erbil-based TV Rudaw that the US Consulate had been attacked by terrorists. […]
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Sun 13 March 2022: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that Russia might use chemical weapons following its invasion of Ukraine and that such a move would be a war crime, according to an interview in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “In recent days, we have heard absurd claims about chemical and biological weapons […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: Saudi Arabia has executed 81 men in the last 24 hours, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian national, on charges of “allegiance to foreign terrorist organizations” and holding “deviant beliefs,” according to the Saudi Press Agency, the kingdom’s state news agency. This is the kingdom’s largest known mass execution in modern […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: At least 579 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, and more than 1,000 have been injured, the UN human rights office has said but officials believe the actual number of casualties is considerably higher. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said 42 of those killed were children, […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: The Ukrainian nuclear power plants at Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, both now under the control of Russian forces, are being run and managed by their Ukrainian staff, Russia’s atomic energy agency Rosatom said on Saturday, according to the RIA news agency. Rosatom’s statement said an external power supply was being restored to […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: According to Ukraine’s foreign ministry, Russian soldiers shelled a mosque in Mariupol, a southern Ukrainian port city, where more than 80 adults and children had sought safety. Turkish citizens were among those seeking refuge in the mosque when it was bombed, according to the government. “The mosque of Sultan Suleiman the […]
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