Oct 01 Watch 2:35 News Wrap: Ukraine retakes city in area Putin illegally declared part of Russia In our news wrap Saturday, Russian forces are retreating from the city of Lyman in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, the Biden administration secured a prisoner swap with Venezuela that freed seven Americans, Las Vegas marks the five-year anniversary… Continue watching
Sep 23 Voting begins in ‘rigged’ referendum to join Russia in occupied parts of Ukraine By Hanna Arhirova, Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Voting began Friday on whether occupied regions of Ukraine should become part of Russia, in referendums that Kyiv and the West condemned as an illegitimate and rigged attempt by Moscow to annex areas in the east… Continue reading
Sep 22 Hungary creates public poll to gauge support of EU sanctions on Russia By Justin Spike, Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s governing party says it wants to poll the country’s citizens on whether they support European Union sanctions imposed against Russia over its war in Ukraine. Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch 5:33 News Wrap: Bidens pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II in London In our news wrap Sunday, the Bidens paid their respects to Queen Elizabeth II in London, Ukraine made strategic gains against Russian forces to the south, Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Armenia amid a cease-fire with Azerbaijan, Hurricane… Continue watching
Sep 11 Watch 3:46 Battle lines are redrawn in Ukraine, 200 days after Russia’s invasion As the war in Ukraine reaches 200 days, Ukrainian forces staging a massive counteroffensive in the eastern region of Kharkiv have taken back large swaths of territory previously under Russian control. Tonight, Russia retaliated by attacking the region’s power grid. Continue watching
Sep 02 Biden seeks $47 billion in emergency dollars for Ukraine, COVID-19, monkeypox and natural disasters By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $47 billion in emergency dollars that would go toward the war in Ukraine, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent natural disasters in… Continue reading
Sep 02 G7 pledges to impose a price cap on Russia oil By Geir Moulson, David McHugh, Associated Press Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial powers have pledged to put in place a system designed to cap Russia’s income from oil sales, an idea the nations’ leaders had promised to explore in June. Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 3:18 News Wrap: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy warns of Russian escalation in war In our news wrap Sunday, Ukraine's president warns that Russian forces could escalate fighting this week and calls for strength ahead of Ukrainian Independence Day, a federal appeals court granted Sen. Lindsey Graham a temporary hold on testifying before a… Continue watching
Aug 12 U.N. ship to begin moving wheat to food starved people in Ethiopia from Ukraine By Susie Blann, Associated Press A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N.-brokered plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war and bring relief to some of the… Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch 5:41 The complex challenges of delivering grain from war-torn Ukraine By Ali Rogin, Winston Wilde Four more merchant ships left Black Sea ports carrying corn and other products from Ukraine today. They are part of a deal in which Russia temporarily lifted a blockade to alleviate global food shortages. Meanwhile, the first ship to leave… Continue watching