KYIV, Ukraine — The European Union pledged on Friday to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euros ($39 billion) as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations, as it seeks to help the country rebuild its economy and its war-shattered power grid. G7 leaders agreed in June to engineer a $50…
It is the second such exchange since Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region on August 6. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war from each side, both countries confirmed, with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary. The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that it swapped 103…
WASHINGTON — Ukraine’s push to ease restrictions on the use of weapons from the United States and Britain will be discussed Friday in White House talks between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Ukraine and many of its supporters in the U.S. and Europe want Biden to let Kyiv use the weapons to strike military…
President Zelenskyy dismisses Mykola Oleshchuk, says country needs to ‘protect personnel’. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the commander of the country’s air force, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a Russian bombardment and killed the pilot. The order to dismiss Mykola Oleshchuk was published on…
Telegram, particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union, is ranked as one of the major social media platforms after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and Wechat. It aims to hit one billion users in the next year. Based in Dubai, Telegram was founded by Russian-born Durov. He left Russia in 2014 after refusing…
