SLOVIANSK, June 30 - Russian forces withdrew from a strategic Black Sea island Thursday, potentially easing the threat to the vital Ukrainian port city of Odesa, but kept up their push to encircle the last stronghold of resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk.
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KYIV, June 30 – Russian occupiers staying at the site of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) told the plant’s workers to drain the cooling pools, Energoatom reported on its Telegram channel on Thursday.
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KYIV, June 30 – Almost 16 million people in Ukraine are in need of humanitarian assistance, UN Resident Coordinator in Ukraine Osnat Lubrani has said.
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KREMENCHUK, June 29 - Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province, as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 in the center of the country two days earlier.
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MADRID, June 29 - NATO declared Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security on Wednesday and vowed to strengthen support for Ukraine, even as that country’s leader chided the alliance for not doing more to help it defeat Moscow, The Associated Press reported.
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KYIV, June 29 – More than 5.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to their homes in Ukraine, while the overall number of IDPs remains high at over 6.2 million, according to the latest report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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UNITED NATIONS, June 28 - President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia on Tuesday of becoming “a terrorist” state carrying out “daily terrorist acts” and urged Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations.
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KYIV, June 28 – Almost all capacity of the Turkish Baykar Makina plant will be focused on meeting the needs of Ukraine following new requests from its Armed Forces (AFU), Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said.
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KYIV, June 28 – Metinvest Mining and Metallurgical Group considers it necessary for the government to start the economy by reducing taxes, deregulating and encouraging investments, and notes a number of positive steps on the part of the state to stimulate business in war conditions.
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KREMENCHUK, June 27 - Russian long-range bombers fired a missile that struck a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine’s central city of Kremenchuk on Monday, raising fears of what President Volodymyr Zelensky called an “unimaginable” number of victims in “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.”
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