• Course of Ukraine's fight against Russia hangs on outcome of U.S. election

    Course of Ukraine's fight against Russia hangs on outcome of U.S. election

    Oct 28, 2024 06:53 PM EST

    Faced with Trump’s harsh rhetoric, some Ukrainian officials say that despite his stated views, his actions as president at times benefited Ukraine. Some of the toughest sanctions fell on Russia’s elite during his administration. Trump also approved the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine, something President Barack Obama ...

  • North Korea has sent about 10,000 soldiers to Russia to fight in Ukraine, Pentagon says

    North Korea has sent about 10,000 soldiers to Russia to fight in Ukraine, Pentagon says

    Oct 28, 2024 04:53 PM EST

    ... been covertly deployed to Ukraine to help its military use long-range weapons provided by Western partners. "Western military personnel long have been working in Ukraine," Lavrov said after a meeting with the Kuwaiti foreign minister in Moscow. Ukraine, whose defenses are under severe Russian pressure in its eastern Donetsk ...

  • What the presence of North Korean troops in Russia could mean for the Ukraine war

    What the presence of North Korean troops in Russia could mean for the Ukraine war

    Oct 23, 2024 10:30 PM EST

    ... forces to Russia. They really seem to be saying to the world, a threat to Russia is a threat to us. Nick Schifrin: Until then, Ukraine fears North Korean troops will join Russian forces to evict Ukraine from seized Russian territory within days. For the "PBS News Hour," I'm ...

  • What would North Korean troops in Russia mean for the war with Ukraine?

    What would North Korean troops in Russia mean for the war with Ukraine?

    Oct 23, 2024 08:10 PM EST

    ... the other is attacked. For analysts, the introduction of troops would be a sign that the war isn’t going as Russia planned. “I think Ukraine is wearing down the Russian army as we talk. You don’t get thousands of soldiers from North Korea if your war is going ...

  • North Korea sent 3,000 troops to Russia for training and possible Ukraine combat, U.S. confirms

    North Korea sent 3,000 troops to Russia for training and possible Ukraine combat, U.S. confirms

    Oct 23, 2024 01:26 PM EST

    ... North Korea hasn't disclosed its troop dispatch to its own people. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Tuesday said North Korea sending troops to Ukraine would mark a “significant escalation,” and said he asked South Korea’s president to send experts to Brussels next week to brief the military ...

  • French foreign minister vows support for Kyiv's plan to end Russian invasion of Ukraine

    French foreign minister vows support for Kyiv's plan to end Russian invasion of Ukraine

    Oct 19, 2024 09:55 PM EST

    ... holding a front line that separates Europe from Vladimir Putin’s Russia, that separates freedom from oppression,” the French minister said in Kyiv. Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs Barrot’s visit coincided with a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine late Friday that included 190 prisoners of war traded by ...

  • News Wrap: In Berlin, Biden urges Western allies to continue flow of aid to Ukraine

    News Wrap: In Berlin, Biden urges Western allies to continue flow of aid to Ukraine

    Oct 18, 2024 10:45 PM EST

    In our news wrap Friday, Biden met with Western allies in Berlin to discuss the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a federal judge unsealed nearly 2,000 pages of evidence in Trump’s election interference case, safety officials are investigating Tesla’s “full self-driving” system, autoworkers in Italy went on their first national strike in 20...

  • Western allies must keep aiding Ukraine as he meets European partners before election, Biden says

    Western allies must keep aiding Ukraine as he meets European partners before election, Biden says

    Oct 18, 2024 03:12 PM EST

    ... economy and prevent foreign countries from taking advantage of the United States. He maintains that if he were still president, Russia would never have invaded Ukraine in 2022 and Hamas would never have attacked Israel in 2023. “I will end the war in Ukraine, stop the chaos in the Middle ...

  • Zelenskyy warns that 10,000 North Korean soldiers could join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine

    Zelenskyy warns that 10,000 North Korean soldiers could join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine

    Oct 17, 2024 03:20 PM EST

    ... off better-equipped Russian forces, especially in the eastern Donetsk region where they are gradually being pushed back. Kyiv is surviving with Western help, but Ukraine says it is coming too slowly. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda criticized slow Western decision-making over Ukraine and said it “would be a great ...

  • News Wrap: Zelenskyy lays out 'victory plan' to Ukraine's parliament

    News Wrap: Zelenskyy lays out 'victory plan' to Ukraine's parliament

    Oct 16, 2024 10:40 PM EST

    In our news wrap Wednesday, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy laid out his 'victory plan' to his country's parliament, Nebraska's high court ruled that felons who've completed their sentences can register to vote, a judge in Nevada sentenced a former politician to 28 years in prison for the murder of journalist Jeff German and at least 140...