UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- At a UN General Assembly meeting held here on Wednesday, Ukraine and Russia clashed over border issues following remarks by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that a full-scale war along the Russian border with Ukraine is "not an unrealistic prospect." "...
Russian border officials reported last week that rebel groups had conductedcross-border raids into the Belgorod and Kursk border regionsbut Russia's defense ministry said it had repeled attempted incursions into Russian territory. Ukraine said a number of Russian anti-war armed groups had acted inde...
tens of thousands of russian troops were hovering on the border, virtually surrounding the country and stoking tensions that led to a call between putin and u.s. president joe biden. fears escalated in early 2022 as the number of russian forces surrounding ukraine increased. biden...
Breaking a promise made at the end of the Cold War that NATO would not expand to the east, the U.S.-led bloc has expanded eastward five times since 1999, advancing more than 1,000 km to the Russian border. Its membership has increased from 16 to 30 countries. Since the flare-up, ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia needed to "feel" the consequences of its war as a major Ukrainian incursion across the Russian border 09 Aug 2024 Russia captures another village in eastern Ukraine The village was one of the few that Ukraine won back during its 202...
The official said the Russian military has continued to move forces toward the border, and within the last 48 hours, the number of forces in attack position has reached 40-50%. At the same time, the Russian destabilization campaign has begun, the official said, with Russia accusing Ukraine...
On February 24 2022, the world awoke to news that Russian missiles had struck targets across Ukraine and used tanks to blast through the border. The invasion came after months of rare public warnings from western intelligence agencies. It would soon escalate into the largest conflict in Europe ...
Nick Paton Walsh takes ‘very surreal’ journey through Ukrainian-held Russian town 01:12 ‘Completely undefended’: Nick Paton Walsh reports from Russian border point 01:42 KyivCNN— The battle for dominance in theBlack Searaged on this week between Ukraine andRussia, as elsewhere each side’...
Sergey Vershinin, Russia’s deputy minister for foreign affairs, reiterated at Thursday’s United Nations Security Council meeting that Russian troops at the Ukrainian border remain on Russian land conducting drills. “The fact is that the Russian forces were in the Russian territory and remain o...
The incident comes as Russia has massed an estimated 150,000 troops close to Ukraine’s border, according to US President Biden, and as US officials warn that a fresh Russian invasion could come at any time. Russia has denied it is planning to invade Ukraine. A separate cyberattack hit ...