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   The money will come from assets confiscated from Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev after his indictment on sanctions evasions in April. The United States has announced several packages of sanctions against Russian citizens (File) Washington: Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday that he had authorized the United States to begin using seized Russian money to aid Ukraine, according to US media. The announcement came during a meeting between Garland and Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin in Washington, nearly one year after Moscow's invasion of its former Soviet neighbor. "Today, I am announcing that I have authorized the first-ever transfer of forfeited Russian assets for use in Ukraine," Garland said, according to CNN The money will come from assets confiscated from Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev after his indictment on sanctions evasions in April, he added. The money will go to the State Department "to support the peopl...

 Russian forces have stolen "several hundred thousand tonnes" of grain in the areas of Ukraine they occupy, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister said on Saturday. Speaking to Ukrainian national TV, Taras Vysotskiy expressed concern that most of what he said was 1.5 million tonnes of grain stored in occupied territory could also be stolen by Russian forces as well. Ukraine's foreign ministry accused Russia on Thursday of stealing grain in territory it has occupied, an act it said increased the threat to global food security. READ MORE : https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220430-un-seeks-to-broker-civilian-evacuation-from-ruins-of-mariupol-while-russia-continues-offensive-in-kharkiv

  Municipal workers remove the body of a man from a house in Bucha, Ukraine As rescuers search through rubble in Borodyanka, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns that the situation will be more horrible than what the world saw in Bucha. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell will meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. The UN General Assembly has  voted  to suspend Russia from its Human Rights Council, citing concerns over human rights abuses in Ukraine. Russia has responded by saying the move is illegal and politically motivated. The United States Congress has  voted  to ban Russian oil imports and suspend Russia’s “most favoured nation” trade status. The European Union has agreed to ban coal imports from Russia, an official says.

Civilians in eastern Ukraine struggled to evacuate Friday as Russia redirects its firepower, while President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of “even more horrific” devastation being in the areas retaken by Ukrainian troops around the capital. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments. A child runs in the train station near the city of Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, as residents flee the city in the Donbass region on April 7, 2022. Severodonetsk, in eastern Ukraine , is the city furthest to the country’s east that is still under Ukrainian control. Our colleagues at France 2 meet Alexei Paveliev, a former taxi driver who is volunteering to evacuate civilians as the city comes under heavy fire from Russian forces. Read more : https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220408-live-civilians-flee-as-ukraine-braces-for-redoubled-russian-assault-on-southeast

  President says ‘significant losses’ inflicted as Russia appears to shift military strategy to focus on Donbas. Ukrainian soldiers patrol the road near Kharkiv in Ukraine Russia says it is now focused on fully capturing Donbas in apparent shift in strategy. Ukraine says 7,331 people were evacuated from cities on Friday. UN nuclear watchdog claims staff members at Chernobyl’s radioactive waste facilities have not been rotated in four days. President Vladimir Putin accuses West of trying to ‘cancel’ Russian culture. French President Emmanuel Macron to hold talks with Russia’s Putin over Mariupol evacuation initiative.

It's March 2022. Ukrainians are fleeing the Russian invasion en masse. Ukrainian artist Bohdan Mucha has returned to Kyiv, where Ukrainian forces are preparing for the siege of the capital. Ukraine Soldiers Bohdan's artists' residence has also joined the resistance. The artists are now making Molotov cocktails. Among them is Maxime, a Russian artist who has decided to stay. He is torn between what he sees in Ukraine and the reprimands of his fellow Russians, who only believe pro-Putin propaganda. His brother is part of the invading Russian troops; he has had no news from him but suspects he is not far away. Check Out : https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/reporters/20220324-the-battle-of-irpin-meeting-the-ukrainian-resistance

  Report of strike on facility near Kyiv comes as Biden readies to visit Poland, thousands evacuated from Boryspil. Ukrainian forces have now been battling against Russia's offensive for more than a month  Russia says its forces have destroyed a major military fuel depot near Kyiv. The United States and European Union have announced a  new deal  aimed at curbing Europe’s reliance on Russian gas. US President Joe Biden is readying to visit the Polish-Ukrainian border as he concludes his diplomatic trip to Europe. Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv has been cut off by Russian troops, according to local authorities.

  BRUSSELS/LVIV/MARIUPOL:  Western leaders agreed on Wednesday to strengthen their forces on Europe’s eastern flank, increase military aid to Ukraine and tighten sanctions on Russia whose invasion and bombardment of its neighbor entered a second month. zelenskyy At an unprecedented triple summit, transatlantic alliance NATO, G7 rich nations and European leaders addressed the continent’s biggest conflict since the 1990s Balkans wars. NATO announced new battle groups for four Eastern European nations, while the United States and Britain expanded sanctions to new targets, including a woman London said was the stepdaughter of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “We must ensure that the decision to invade a sovereign independent country is understood to be a strategic failure that carries with it ruinous costs for Putin and Russia,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the EU parliament. ' Read More :  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2049346/world

Ukraine is a speed-chess version of the wars in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Syria, with the pieces on the board including nuclear weapons. Left: A Bosnian child leaves his father , Right: A man says goodbye to his son and his wife on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine He is the president of a Slavic nation who takes advice from no one and gambles on a war that does not go as planned. Fierce resistance prevents his forces from seizing the capital he covets. Western sanctions send his economy into a tailspin, the middle class flees, and state media offers ridiculous propaganda (“Our enemy is bombing themselves”). This sounds like Vladimir Putin in 2022, but it’s Slobodan Milošević in 1992, when military forces under the Serbian leader’s control went on a genocidal rampage in Bosnia. The war dragged on for years and involved sieges of Sarajevo and other cities, including Srebrenica. Milošević claimed Bosnia was an artificial country that didn’t deserve to exist — the kind of lie that...

  Ukrainian President  Volodymyr Zelensky  on Monday urged NATO to impose a no-fly zone over his country or see its member states attacked by Russia. "If you don't close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian rockets fall on your territory, on NATO territory," Zelensky said in a video address released shortly after midnight. Follow our live updates for all the latest developments. A Ukrainian firefighter drags a hose inside a large food products storage facility which was destroyed by an airstrike in the early morning hours on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine Moscow has reportedly asked Beijing for military supplies and economic aid. The US has warned that China will face "severe consequences" if it helps Russia dodge sanctions. The UK Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that Russian naval forces had established a blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea Coast, isolating Ukraine from international maritime trade. Both Ukraine and Russia have said discussion...

Recent U.S. and European investments in cyber defense in  Ukraine  are being put to the test following Russia's invasion of the country. Russia - Ukraine Crisis In the weeks and months leading up to the conflict, the U.S. and the European Union (EU) deployed a team of cyber warfare experts to help counter Russian cyberattacks from disrupting the country’s critical infrastructure. A newly formed EU cyber rapid response team consisting of 12 experts and a “hunt forward” team with U.S. Cyber Command were dispatched to Ukraine to look for active cyber threats inside the networks and strengthen the country’s cyber defenses. This was in response to a wave of cyberattacks that targeted local banks and Ukrainian government websites — including the parliament and the foreign affairs and defense ministries — weeks and days before the invasion. Russia has denied any involvement. The West began actively investing in Ukraine’s cyber defenses following the 2015 power grid hack and the 2017...

 An Ukrainian serviceman looks through binoculars towards the town of Stoyanka at a checkpoint before the last bridge on the road that connects Stoyanka with Kyiv, Moscow announced Monday that it would open humanitarian corridors in Ukraine exiting to Belarus or Russian though these were rejected by Kyiv. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked the international community to provide Ukraine with military aircraft and to boycott Russian oil, oil products and other exports. Follow our live blog for the latest developments. An Ukrainian serviceman looks through binoculars towards the town of Stoyanka at a checkpoint before the last bridge on the road that connects Stoyanka with Kyiv Kyiv on Monday rejected humanitarian corridors proposed by Moscow that allowed people to exit to Russia or Belarus. A civilian disaster is growing in Ukraine as attempts to evacuate residents of besieged port city Mariupol failed for a second consecutive day. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensk...

  Indian Doctor Refuses To Leave Ukraine Without His Pet Jaguar And Panther Dr Girikumar Patil regularly shares videos of his pet big cats on YouTube. Ukraine wa r: Dr Girikumar Patil belongs to Tanuku, in Andhra Pradesh's West Godavari district. He went to Ukraine 15 years ago to study medicine. An Indian doctor is stranded in war-torn Ukraine, holed up in a basement with his two pet big cats - a panther and a leopard. Dr Girikumar Patil is living in a bunker below his home in Severodonetsk, in the Donbas region. The region is controlled by separatists and the situation is fast deteriorating. But Dr Patil is not ready to leave the animals behind. “I will never abandon my pets to save my life. Of course, my family is urging me to return. My pets are my children. I'll stay with them and protect them until my last breath,” he told The New Indian Express (TNIE). Dr Patil went to Ukraine in 2007 to study medicine, and later settled down in Donbas. TNIE reported that he later join...

 A growing number of citizens inside Russia are turning to independent news reports rather than state-sponsored propaganda for information about the invasion.                                                                  Russia-Ukraine The trend comes as Russian officials are working to suppress and distort the work of independent journalists within their own borders and on the ground in Ukraine as they attempt to skew the facts behind the assault and further justify an attack on their neighbor to the west.  Recent figures tallied by the BBC, one of Europe’s largest news providers, show traffic coming from inside Russia for content about the invasion has spiked dramatically, a sign the Russian people are looking for alternatives to the state-sponsored programming pumped out by Putin and his allies.  "It’s...

GOP lawmakers are using rising gasoline prices and Russia's invasion of Ukraine to attack President Biden’s energy policies, arguing that the administration has failed to improve U.S. energy independence. Experts say many of their claims are misleading, noting that administration actions have had little impact at the pump and don’t have much bearing on the conflict abroad.   Nevertheless, the Republicans’ rhetoric is a likely preview of their midterm argument: that electing Republicans will lead to better U.S. energy policies and lower prices.  U.S. President Joe Biden In recent days, Republicans have gone on the attack — flaming Biden over his decision to nix the Keystone XL pipeline and pause or delay oil and gas leasing.   Those joining in on the criticism include House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and James Lankford (R-Okla.), who have particularly discussed Biden’s move to nix a border crossing permit for the pipel...

Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and V K Singh are the ones who will be travelling to Poland and Romania to oversee the operations. PM Modi holds a meeting on Russia-Ukraine crisis.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi , while chairing a meeting over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine on Monday, decided to send four Union Ministers to Poland and Romania to oversee the evacuation of thousands of Indians, including students, who are still stuck there. Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Puri, Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiradtiya Scindia, and and Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways and Civil Aviation General V K Singh are the ones who will be heading out soon and will be visiting as Special Envoys of the Indian government, sources said. Apart from the four ministers, the meeting on Monday was attended by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, National Security ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged as a hero to his nation's citizens and far beyond as the former actor and comedian first elected in 2019 remains in his country at great personal risk during its bombardment by Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky  Zelensky , who agreed on Sunday to talks at the Belarus border with Russia to end the military conflict, has been his country’s man in the capital city of Kyiv, where he has issued a series of videos urging Ukrainians to resist the invasion. “I am here. We will not lay down any weapons. We will defend our state, because our weapons are our truth,” he said in one clip filmed outside his office in Kyiv. “Our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children and we will protect all of this,” he added, according to a translation posted by Al-Jazeera. “This is what I wanted to tell you. Glory to Ukraine !” he said. Zelensky was previously perhaps best known in the United States for the role he played in the ...