CNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN Slovakia has preliminarily agreed to provide Ukraine with a key Soviet-era air defense system to help defend against Russian airstrikes, according to three sources familiar with the matter, but the US and NATO are still grappling with how to backfill that country’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Eliza Mackintosh and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — When Serhii woke up to news reports that a bomb had flattened Mariupol’s Drama Theater, where hundreds of people had been sheltering, he couldn’t breathe. His wife and their two daughters were inside. A day before the attack, the 56-year-old editor, who lives
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych, Tara John and Paul P. Murphy, CNN A theater where hundreds of people had taken shelter in Mariupol was bombed on Wednesday, according to local authorities, as hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in the coastal Ukrainian city that has been encircled for weeks by Russian forces. Mariupol City
Continue ReadingBy Zeena Saifi, CNN The West has shown unprecedented coordination and unity in its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Governments, corporations and individuals have come together to sanction and boycott Moscow, and Europe has opened its doors to a flood of refugees. Amid this outpouring of empathy, however, stark contrasts have arisen in the
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovich, Paul P. Murphy, Antonia Mortensen, Clare Foran, Niamh Kennedy and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Ukrainians face an increasingly desperate situation on the ground as Russian forces hit the capital and fresh targets across the country, despite both nations acknowledging signs of
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovich, Paul P. Murphy, Antonia Mortensen, Clare Foran, Niamh Kennedy and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Ukrainians face an increasingly desperate situation on the ground as Russian forces hit the capital and fresh targets across the country, despite both nations acknowledging signs of progress in ongoing negotiations. A theater where hundreds of people
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Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy, Adam Pourahmadi and Jack Guy, CNN Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who has been held in Iran for almost six years, has been released and is en route back to the UK. On Wednesday, Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s local UK Member of Parliament Tulip Siddiq tweeted a photo of her on board a plane
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Carey, Oleksandra Ochman, Kylie Atwood and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dropped his clearest hint yet that he does not expect his country to join NATO anytime soon. In comments made during an address by video-link to leaders of the British-led Joint Expeditionary Force on Tuesday, Zelensky appeared to shift
Continue ReadingCNN, CTV NETWORK, TELEGRAM, KHARKIV PUBLIC BROADCASTER, RADIO FREE EUROPE, RADIO LIBERTY, AZOV BATTALION, POOL, TWITTER By Andrew Carey, Oleksandra Ochman, Kylie Atwood and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dropped his clearest hint yet that he does not expect his country to join NATO anytime soon. In comments made during an address
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Continue ReadingBy Ed Lavandera and Cristiana Moisescu, CNN There is a sole train line that runs between Ukraine and the station in the border town of Przemysl, Poland. The trains that go back and forth are a faded blue and yellow, the national colors of the besieged country. The scene on Platform Five looked different this
Continue ReadingCNN By Ed Lavandera and Cristiana Moisescu, CNN There is a sole train line that runs between Ukraine and the station in the border town of Przemysl, Poland. The trains that go back and forth are a faded blue and yellow, the national colors of the besieged country. The scene on Platform Five looked different
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister and Sebastian Shukla, CNN “I want to tell our commander-in-chief to stop terror acts in Ukraine because when we come back we’ll rise against him.” Russian President Vladimir Putin “has given orders to commit crimes. It’s not just to demilitarize Ukraine or defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but now cities of
Continue ReadingCNN By Tim Lister and Sebastian Shukla, CNN “I want to tell our commander-in-chief to stop terror acts in Ukraine because when we come back we’ll rise against him.” Russian President Vladimir Putin “has given orders to commit crimes. It’s not just to demilitarize Ukraine or defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but now cities
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Ukrainian authorities have detained a “hacker” who was allegedly helping the Russian military send instructions via mobile phone networks to its troops, Ukraine’s SBU security service said Tuesday. The suspect, whom the SBU did not identify, was accused of being on “thousands” of phone calls to Russian officials, including senior military
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN PORTUGAL, CTV NETWORK, NATO TV, KYIV MAYOR, MAXAR, TELEGRAM, ZELENSKY, UKRAINE GOVERNMENT, CNN, CNN, CNN Portugal, CTV Network, NATO TV, Kyiv Mayor, Maxar, Telegram/Zelensky, Ukraine Government By Antonia Mortensen, Abby Baggini, Mariya Knight and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic reaffirmed their support for Ukraine amid
Continue ReadingBy Antonia Mortensen, Abby Baggini, Mariya Knight and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic reaffirmed their support for Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion during a meeting Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in capital Kyiv. Following the meeting, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz
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