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Moscow threatens UK with strikes if Ukraine hits Russia with British weapons

Moscow threatened Monday to strike at British military targets inside Ukraine and elsewhere if Kyiv’s forces struck Russia with British-supplied long-range missiles — a move British Foreign Secretary David Cameron greenlighted Kyiv to take in self-defense. During a visit in…

Russia announces nuclear drills in response to perceived Western threats

Russia plans to perform drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, in response to what it called “provocative statements and threats from France, Britain and the United States regarding the Russian Federation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, a warning…

Russia says Ukrainian drone attack killed 6 in Belgorod

Officials in western Russia said a Ukrainian drone attack killed at least six people Monday in the Belgorod region near the Russia-Ukraine border. Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor in Belgorod, said on Telegram the drone struck several vehicles and that…

Russian airstrikes kill 3, injure 17 in Ukraine on Orthodox Easter Sunday

Russian airstrikes hit the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Kharkiv killing three people and injuring at least 17, officials said Sunday, as the two countries observed Orthodox Easter Sunday. Russia had used a guided aerial bomb in the strike…

Russian drones injure 6 in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, Dnipro regions

KYIV, UKRAINE —  Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Dnipro regions, injuring at least six people and hitting critical infrastructure, commercial and residential buildings, regional officials said on Saturday. The Ukrainian Air Force said the Russian…

Holocaust survivors take on denial and hate in new digital campaign

DUESSELDORF, Germany —  Herbert Rubinstein was 5 years old when he and his mother were taken from the Jewish ghetto of Chernivtsi and put on a cramped cattle wagon waiting to take them to their deaths. It was 1941, and…

Statistics, prayer, personal stories: How Protestants helped bring Ukraine aid to US House floor

Washington —  On Saturday, March 2, at 2:20 a.m., Serhii Gadarzhi woke up to a drone approaching his apartment building in Odesa, Ukraine. He heard an explosion just outside his windows and rushed to his 2-year-old daughter’s bedroom. She was…

Russian shelling kills 2 in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region

Kyiv, Ukraine —  Two people were killed on Friday in a Russian attack on the city of Kurakhove, located in the eastern Donetsk region, which is bearing the brunt of the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow. “Various high-rise buildings were…

In Ukraine, damaged church rises as a symbol of faith, culture

LYPIVKA, Ukraine —  This Orthodox Easter season, an extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka. Two years ago, it also provided physical refuge from the horrors outside. Almost 100 residents sheltered…

In Europe, exiled Russian journalists offer alternative to state news

Moscow has cracked down on Russian media outlets that offer independent reporting on the war in Ukraine, prompting hundreds of journalists to flee. While in exile, these media workers have found ways to keep the news flowing into the heavily…