SEOUL, Oct 19 (Reuters) – North Korea fired 100 more artillery shells off its west coast on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, just hours after it launched hundreds of shells into the sea off its east and west coasts in what it called a grave warning to South Korea. North Korea has been carrying out...
KYIV, Oct 17 (Reuters) – The capital of Kyiv was hit on Monday by kamikaze drones, Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president’s staff, wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “Russians think it will help them,” Yermak said. Reuters was not able to independently verify the claims.
KYIV, Oct 12 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he doubted whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon as Ukraine pleaded for a rapid increase in Western military aid to defend against missile strikes on its cities. Explosions rocked the Russian-occupied southern towns of Kherson and Melitopol and...
KYIV, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Russia will respond to the West’s growing involvement in the Ukraine conflict although direct conflict with NATO is not in Moscow’s interests, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday after Washington pledged more military aid for Kyiv. Ukraine on Monday said it needed to strengthen its air defence following Russia’s...
KYIV, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of orchestrating what he called a terrorist attack on a key bridge linking Russia and Crimea, as he prepared to hold a meeting of his security council on Monday. “There is no doubt. This is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying critically important...
SEOUL:South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup met with the commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command in Seoul on Friday to discuss North Korea’s provocations and the Seoul-Washington alliance, Lee’s office said. Lee and Adm. John Aquilino shared the view that the allies have “strongly” responded to North Korea over Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile tests, according...
NEW YORK/KYIV, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine has brought the world closer to “Armageddon” than at any time since the Cold-War Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. President Joe Biden said. As Putin’s seven-month invasion unravels, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv’s forces were swiftly recapturing more...
SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile further than ever before on Tuesday, sending it soaring over Japan, for the first time in five years, and prompting a warning for residents there to take cover. It was the first North Korean missile to follow such a trajectory since 2017, and...
KYIV, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Ukraine on Sunday claimed full control of the eastern logistics hub of Lyman, Kyiv’s most significant battlefield gain in weeks, providing a potential staging post for further attacks to the east while heaping further pressure on the Kremlin. The stinging setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin came after he proclaimed the...
KYIV, Sept 26 (Reuters) – The United States warned on Sunday of “catastrophic consequences” if Moscow uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, after Russia’s foreign minister said regions holding widely-criticised referendums would get full protection if annexed by Moscow. Votes were staged for a third day in four eastern Ukrainian regions, aimed at annexing territory Russia...