Russia boosts 2025 military spending to record level
Russia will increase its military spending by almost 30% next year, according to a draft budget published Monday. The 2025 budget will take Russia’s military spending up to $145 billion, about $32 billion more than was budgeted for this year’s…
US hospital helps wounded Ukrainian soldiers regain eyesight
Since 2015, one of America’s oldest eye clinics, Wills Eye Hospital, has been helping wounded Ukrainian soldiers with severe head or face injuries get their vision back. For one surgeon with Ukrainian roots, the work is personal. Iryna Solomko has…
Ukraine reports downing 67 Russian drones in latest round of attacks
Ukraine’s military said Monday it shot down 67 of 73 Russian aerial drones launched in overnight attacks targeting areas across Ukraine. In addition to the drones, Ukraine’s air defenses also shot down one of three Russia missiles. The intercepts took…
125 Ukrainian drones reported in attack sparking fires across Russia, Moscow officials say
KYIV — More than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia Sunday, officials said, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February…
11 wounded in southern Ukraine in Russian strikes
Kyiv — At least 11 people were wounded on Sunday in a series of Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, emergency services announced. The regional capital was hit by several “massive aerial strikes” at dawn, Ukrainian emergency services said…
At UN, Russian foreign minister dismisses Zelenskyy’s peace plan as ‘doomed’
united nations — Russia’s foreign minister reinforced the Kremlin’s disagreements with the West in his United Nations General Assembly remarks Saturday and showed no interest in a genuine peace with Ukraine. “I’m not going to talk here about the senselessness…
Zelenskyy says Trump assured him of support for Ukraine in war with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an interview with Fox News aired on Saturday, said he received “very direct information” from Donald Trump that the former U.S. president would support Ukraine in the war against Russia if he is reelected in…
China warns against ‘expansion’ of Ukraine war
United Nations — China ‘s Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Saturday against the expansion of the war in Ukraine, which has accused Beijing of assisting Russia in its war. Kyiv has been particularly scornful of Beijing’s calls for talks to…
Russian attacks on hospital in Ukraine’s Sumy kill 9, Kyiv says
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked a hospital in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine early Saturday, killing nine people and injuring at least 19 others, Ukrainian and United Nations officials said. Danielle Bell, head of the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in…
Blinken dismisses China’s Ukraine peace plan over material support for Russia
new york — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China’s words and actions regarding ending Russia’s war on Ukraine do not “add up,” as the Beijing government continues to allow Chinese companies to “fuel Russia’s war machine.”…