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Russian fighting destroys, damages nearly 400 hospitals, medical centres, Zelenskiy says
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or ...Russian ceasefire to begin at besieged Mariupol steel plant
A Russian-announced ceasefire was due to begin Thursday at the besieged steel plant in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol, to allow ...Russia hits eastern towns amid hopes for more evacuations
Russian forces unleashed artillery fire on towns in eastern Ukraine, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, and began storming the bombed-out steel ...Belarus begins snap combat readiness drills
The armed forces of Belarus began sudden large-scale drills on Wednesday to test their combat readiness, the defence ministry of Ukraine’s neighbour ...Russian offensive devastates towns in eastern Ukraine
Russian forces shelled Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, and devastated several towns in eastern Ukraine, while the European Union prepared sanctions on ...Scores of civilians evacuated from Mariupol steelworks in Ukraine
Around 100 civilians evacuated from the ruined Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol were due to arrive in a Ukrainian-held city on Monday, Ukrainian ...Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls
Ukrainian forces fought village by village Saturday to hold back a Russian advance through the country’s east, while the United Nations worked ...Germany takes Italy to U.N. court again over Nazi compensation claims
Germany has filed a case against Italy at the highest U.N. court because Rome continues to allow victims of Nazi war crimes ...Ukraine says Russia pounding Donbas, failing to take targets
Russian forces pounded Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on Saturday but failed to capture three target areas, Ukraine’s military said, while Moscow said ...More than 3,000 people lost in sea crossings to Europe in 2021, U.N. report says
More than 3,000 refugees, migrants and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean and ...














