Stepped up missile and air attacks by Russia mean Kyiv is straining its existing defenses.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, June 2, 2024. REUTERS/Edgar Su - World
The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was understandable that some countries were declining to take part in a Swiss-hosted peace summit on Ukraine this month because the gathering lacked clear goals and it was absurd to hold it without Russia.
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Ukraine will continue to import large amounts of electricity on Tuesday even as one of the lines connecting Ukraine to the European energy system undergoes repairs, Ukrainian power grid operator Ukrenergo said.
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It will be unsafe to restart the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine as long as war rages around it despite Moscow's hopes to fire up the complex, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.
A view shows Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo - World
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday the United States could face "fatal consequences" if it ignored Moscow's warnings not to let Ukraine use weapons provided by Washington to strike targets inside Russia.
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Two pro-Russian activists in Germany, whose ties to the Kremlin were revealed in a Reuters investigation last year, have left Germany and moved to Russia, the couple’s lawyer said in a statement on Monday.
A Russian airstrike on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv destroyed a cafe, damaged a nearby residential building and set a petrol station ablaze.
