Ukraine: Aid agencies step up relief deliveries as humanitarian situation worsens
Apr 20, 2022, at 10:05 pm
New York: Amidst devastating Russian shelling and attacks on health care facilities and personnel, UN aid agencies said on Tuesday that they continue to mobilize inside Ukraine in an effort to help the country’s most vulnerable people.
Russia issues ultimatum for Ukrainian forces, calling them to 'immediately lay down arms'
Apr 20, 2022, at 04:01 am
Moscow/IBNS: In a new ultimatum for Ukraine, Russia on Tuesday called on its neighbouring country's forces to "immediately" lay down arms and give up resistance.
Guterres appeals for urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine
Apr 19, 2022, at 11:04 pm
New York: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has again called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine to allow delivery of life-saving aid as well as evacuations, his spokesperson said on Monday.
Ukraine: Russian military conducting raids in Kherson
Apr 19, 2022, at 03:50 pm
Kyiv: After the discovery of a cache with weapons and explosives at a Kherson military plant, Russian servicemen are conducting raids in the city and its surrounding region to identify sabotage groups left by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) during its flight from the city, a Russian security source told Sputnik.
Ukraine: Six killed in missile strikes on Lviv
Apr 18, 2022, at 10:00 pm
Kyiv: At least six people were killed and eight others wounded on Monday in missile strikes on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, said Maksym Kozytsky, head of the Lviv regional military-civilian administration.
Ukraine rejects Russian deadline to surrender in Mariupol
Apr 18, 2022, at 04:23 am
Kyiv: The Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol city have rejected Russia's demands to surrender and continue to resist the assault, top Ukrainian official said on Sunday.
Russia bans Boris Johnson from country over Ukraine stance
Apr 16, 2022, at 10:30 pm
Kyiv/London/Mexico: Russia has banned UK PM Boris Johnson and other senior ministers from entering Russia over the UK's "hostile" stance on the war in Ukraine, media reports said.
30,000 Ukrainians returning home every day, say relief agencies
Apr 15, 2022, at 07:03 pm
New York: More than 870,000 people who fled abroad since the Russian invasion on 24 February, have now returned to Ukraine, UN humanitarians said in their latest emergency update, amid concerns about deteriorating food security inside the country.
UNHCR calls for better oversight of UK ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme
Apr 15, 2022, at 06:41 pm
New York: The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has highlighted the need for “adequate safeguards” and vetting measures to be put in place against the possible exploitation of Ukrainian women, under the United Kingdom’s “Homes for Ukraine” scheme.
Canada to help Ukraine with $398 million loan
Apr 14, 2022, at 08:07 pm
Ottawa: The Ukrainian Finance Ministry said it had signed a $398 million loan agreement with the Canadian government amid the Russian military operation.
Ukraine conflict putting global trade recovery at risk: WTO
Apr 14, 2022, at 12:22 am
The war in Ukraine has created immense human suffering but it is also putting the fragile recovery of global trade at risk, and the impact will be felt across the planet, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Tuesday.
Mobile phone giant Nokia to exit Russia
Apr 13, 2022, at 01:10 am
Moscow: Nokia, the Finnish multi-national company, on Tuesday announced to exit the Russian market.
Ukraine war: Trauma ‘risks destroying a generation’, Security Council hears
Apr 12, 2022, at 10:26 pm
New York: Increasing reports of sexual violence and human trafficking in Ukraine - allegedly committed against women and children in the context of massive displacement and the ongoing Russian invasion - are raising “all the red flags” about a potential protection crisis, the head of the UN’s gender agency warned the Security Council on Monday.
Ukraine resilience-building programme to help most vulnerable
Apr 12, 2022, at 04:33 pm
New York: A UN-led development plan for Ukraine launched on Monday, to provide immediate economic help and longer-term assistance to the millions left struggling to meet basic needs, in the wake of the Russian invasion.
Russia denies hand in Kramatorsk attack, accuses Ukrainian forces of missile launch
Apr 09, 2022, at 07:41 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Russia has denied any involvement in the missile attack on Kramatorsk railway station that killed dozens and has accused the Ukrainian armed forces of launching the Tochka-U missile to stop civilians from fleeing the city and to use them as a "human shield".
Ukraine war drives international food prices to ‘new all-time high’
Apr 09, 2022, at 04:31 pm
New York: Global food prices have reached “a new all-time high,” the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday, “hitting the poorest the hardest.”
Ukraine: UN condemns deadly attack on train station, dozens of civilians killed
Apr 09, 2022, at 04:10 pm
New York: In eastern Ukraine, a reported Russian missile attack on a railway station that’s killed dozens of civilians including children, has been condemned by the United Nations. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement, that the strike - and others against civilians and civilian infrastructure - were "gross violations" of international law.
Ukraine war linked to ‘massive malnutrition crisis’ affecting millions in other emergencies
Apr 08, 2022, at 09:30 pm
New York: The war in Ukraine has increased the risk of a “massive malnutrition crisis” for millions of children in other emergencies because of its already huge impact on global food prices, the UN said on Thursday.
Ukraine: Hundreds more reach safety after fleeing besieged Mariupol
Apr 08, 2022, at 06:18 pm
New York: In Ukraine, humanitarians said on Wednesday that hundreds of people have managed to reach safety after fleeing Mariupol, where there’s also been condemnation for the killing of Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, as he tried to escape from the besieged and battered city a few days ago.
EU proposes sanction on Russian coal to exert more pressure on Putin
Apr 06, 2022, at 10:36 pm
Brussels: The European Union's executive branch has proposed to ban coal imports from Russia in a bid to hit the country's lucrative energy industry over its war in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President calls on Security Council to act for peace, or ‘dissolve’ itself
Apr 06, 2022, at 05:47 pm
New York: In an impassioned address to the Security Council that evoked the ashen destruction wrought during the Second World War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday described in stark detail what he said was the deliberate slaughter of civilians in Bucha by Russian forces, laying out an existential choice for its members, over the whole future of the world’s security architecture, founded in 1945.
UN humanitarian aid convoy reaches Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine
Apr 06, 2022, at 05:25 pm
New York: An eight truck convoy of life-saving humanitarian aid provided by the UN and humanitarian partners reached Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday, in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region, where sustained and intense fighting is taking an enormous toll on civilians.
Ukraine: UN’s Guterres joins call for Bucha war crimes probe
Apr 06, 2022, at 04:37 pm
New York: UN chief António Guterres on Tuesday added his voice to the growing international calls for a war crimes investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
Russia wants Ukraine to be guided by national interests in negotiations: Sergey Lavrov
Apr 05, 2022, at 05:31 am
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: Russia hopes that Ukraine will be guided by its national interests in the negotiations and stop listening to foreign advisers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
Ukraine War: 300 people buried in mass graves in Bucha near Kyiv
Apr 03, 2022, at 07:04 am
Bucha(Ukraine): At least 300 people, whose bodies were recovered following the withdrawal of Russian troops from Bucha, have been buried in mass graves, the city's mayor told AFP Saturday.
20 bodies found lying on a street in Ukrainian city Bucha as Russian troops withdraw: Report
Apr 03, 2022, at 05:59 am
Kyiv: Bodies of 20 men in civilian clothes were found lying on a street after Ukrainian forces reclaimed the Bucha town near the capital city Kyiv from Russian troops, media reports said.
Ukrainian forces wrest over 30 towns from Russians
Apr 03, 2022, at 04:56 am
Kyiv: Ukrainian troops have regained control over 30 towns and settlements causing Russian forces to retreat from the Kyiv region, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said on Saturday.
Apr 02, 2022, at 10:38 pm
New York: Efforts to help thousands of desperate residents flee the embattled Ukrainian city of Mariupol continued on Friday, as humanitarians warned that there is “no Plan B”, after weeks of constant shelling since the Russian invasion on 24 February.
Zelenskiy demands strengthening sanctions against Russia
Apr 02, 2022, at 04:56 pm
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged strengthening of sanctions against Russia as they are having an impact on Moscow.
Ukraine: Second UN convoy reaches Sumy, Mariupol access thwarted
Apr 02, 2022, at 02:48 am
UN humanitarian agencies and partners on the ground in Ukraine, were able to reach the town of Sumy, in the country’s northeast on Thursday, but access to the besieged and stricken city of Mariupol, where thousands of civilians are believed to have died amidst the brutal Russian bombardment, has yet to be given.