Sweden providing Ukraine with military support totaling $7 billion
Sweden is providing Ukraine with additional military support, totaling $7 billion, over three years. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Sweden in his nightly address for the “long-term support.” “It will strengthen not only us, not only Ukraine,” the president said,…
UK says China is supplying ‘lethal aid’ to Russia for use in Ukraine
British Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps accused Russia and China on Wednesday of collaborating on combat equipment for use in the two-year-long war in Ukraine. “They’re covering each other’s back,” Shapps said at the London Defense Conference. He…
Yacht docked in US port symbolizes struggle to convert seizures into cash for Ukraine
Everett, Washington/Washington, DC — When a superyacht worth $230 million pulled into the port of Everett, Washington, for repairs last month, it made a big splash in the city of 110,000 residents. The 106-meter luxury behemoth known as the Amadea…
US House speaker to VOA: Ukraine should be able to fight war as ‘they see fit’
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that the United States needs “to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war in the way they see fit,” when it comes to how Ukraine uses U.S.-provided weapons in its war against…
War leaves tragic legacy of mental illness in Ukraine
Experts say that in Ukraine, there has been a heavy increase in cases of anxiety, depression, adjustment disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems since Russia’s invasion in 2022, and it will likely have a long-term impact. For…
Russia reports downing Ukrainian drones, missiles in western regions
The governor of western Russia’s Belgorod region said Wednesday falling fragments from a destroyed Ukrainian aerial drone damaged two residential buildings, while Russia’s defense ministry said the country’s air defenses shot down a total of three drones and six missiles…
Biden administration faces pressure on US weapons restrictions in Russia
In recent weeks Ukraine has intensified its appeals to the Biden administration to lift the ban on using U.S.-provided weapons to strike targets inside Russia. Oleksandra Ustinova, a member of the Ukrainian parliament who recently visited Washington, said Russia is…
UK infected blood scandal victims to start receiving final compensation
Britain’s government said Tuesday that thousands of victims of the U.K.’s decades-long infected blood scandal will start receiving final compensation payments this year. The scandal, which lasted between the 1970s and the early 1990s, is seen as the deadliest episode…
Humanitarian needs spike as Russia escalates offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region
Geneva — U.N. agencies report Russia’s escalating military offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region over the past two weeks is causing an alarming spike in humanitarian needs as deaths and injuries grow and thousands flee in the wake of relentless aerial…
How Kremlin uses false fact checks to spread disinformation
Just a few weeks after Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, Moscow started to promote a website that claims to tell the truth about the war. “War On Fakes” was presented as a fact-checking resource where experts and journalists debunk the…