• 26 December, 2024
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Thermobaric Weapons – Why Should They be Banned?

Russian forces in Ukraine may have used thermobaric weapons and cluster bombs, according to reports from the Ukraine government and human rights groups. If true, this represents an escalation in brutality…

By PTI and Chanakya Forum

Ukraine’s Mariupol under heavy shelling, Kherson surrounded – officials

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's south-eastern port of Mariupol was under constant shelling from Russia and unable to evacuate the injured while Kherson, on the Black Sea to the west,…

Shelling of Kharkiv resembles 1990s atrocities in Bosnia – UK PM Johnson

LONDON (Reuters) - The shelling of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv by Russian forces is an atrocity reminiscent of the attacks on Sarajevo by the Serbs in the 1990s, British…

Kyiv under curfew as Russians shell outskirts, some still trying to leave

By Aleksandar Vasovic KYIV (Reuters) - The streets of central Kyiv lay almost deserted in the winter sunshine on Sunday, with residents ordered to stay in shelters as Russian forces…

Separatist rhetoric, ‘false-flag operation’ fears stoke Ukraine tensions

By Tom Balmforth and Maria Kiselyova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists said on Saturday they had uncovered a plan by Kyiv to seize territory they control in eastern Ukraine by…

Warning siren sounds in rebel-held capital in east Ukraine -Reuters witness

DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - A loud warning siren sounded in the centre of the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday after a Russian-backed separatist leader in the breakaway region…

Russia voices alarm over sharp increase of Donbass shelling

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced alarm on Friday over a sharp increase in shelling in eastern Ukraine and accused the OSCE special monitoring mission of glossing over…

Myanmar airstrikes displace more people along Thai-Myanmar border

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar's military carried out more airstrikes on a rebel-controlled area near the Thai border, the rebel group said on Friday, in the latest escalation of violence that…

Syrian army resumes shelling of rebel enclave after collapse of deal

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army units backed by Iranian-backed militias resumed the shelling of a rebel enclave in southern Syria on Sunday after the collapse of Russia-brokered…

Shelling targets US base in Syria

Damascus (Syria) July 5 (ANI/Xinhua): Rocket fire targeted a U.S. military base in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Sunday night, the state news agency SANA reported. The shelling…