flashing pointLive updatesLive updates Kyiv rules out a ceasefire or territorial concessions as Moscow hits military targets in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukraine rules out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow as Russia intensifies its attack in the east and south. Kyiv extends the period of martial law and general mobilization in the … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) – Russia pushed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as the Polish president traveled to Kyiv to support the country’s EU bid, becoming the first foreign leader to address Ukraine’s parliament since the start of the war.. MEPs stood up to applaud President Andrzej Duda, who thanked them for the honor … Read more
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – One is a restaurateur who fled Belarus when he learned he was about to be arrested for criticizing President Alexander Lukashenko. Another was given the choice of either exposing his fellow opposition activists or imprisoning him. And one is sure that his brother was killed by the country’s security forces. What … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) – Wall Street rocked to the brink of a bear market Friday after another decline in shares briefly sent the S&P 500 with more than 20% below its peak set earlier this year. The S&P 500, which is the basis of most workers’ 401 (k) accounts, fell 2.3 percent in the day … Read more
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) – The West set out to pour billions more aid into Ukraine on Friday as Russia relocates troops freed from the impending fall of the dusty city of Mariupol and fighting raging in the country’s industrial center to the east. Russian forces shelled a vital highway and continued attacks on a key … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) – Another drop in shares on Friday pushed the S&P 500 index by 20% below its peak set earlier this year. The benchmark fell 2% for the day in early afternoon trading and slowed for its seventh consecutive losing week. Raising interest rateshigh inflationthe war in Ukraineand a slowdown in the Chinese … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian authorities said on Friday that their troops had repulsed a Russian attack in the east as Moscow struggled to gain ground in the region, which is now at the center of the war, even as it intensified its campaign there.. Affected by months of siege of the vital port city … Read more
MILAN (AP) – Edoardo Ronzoni inspected a construction site near Milan, which closed in March as material costs skyrocketed. He can’t finish a half-built roundabout at a crossroads known for bending fenders because asphalt, cast iron pipes and concrete are too expensive – prices have worsened since Russia’s war in Ukraine. Italy’s public works projects … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) – Hundreds of other Ukrainian fighters who stood in a bombed steel plant in Mariupol surrendered, bringing the total to more than 1,700, Russia said on Thursday amid international fears about the fate of prisoners in Moscow’s hands. . The Red Cross is working to register soldiers as prisoners of war in … Read more
By VASILISA STEPANENKO and LORI HINANT May 19, 2022 GMT https://apnews.com/article/mariupol-medic-body-camera-036cf9f28180e9525760d68bddbe4ee4 KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) – A famous Ukrainian medic recorded his time in Mariupol on a data map no larger than a miniature transported around the world with a tampon. Now it is in Russian hands, at a time when Mariupol itself is on the … Read more