Mar 16 WATCH: President Biden approves more anti-aircraft systems, drones for Ukraine By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press The president's comments came as he formally announced his administration was sending an additional $800 million in military assistance to Ukraine, making a total of $2 billion in such aid sent to Kyiv since Biden took office more than a… Continue reading
Mar 16 WATCH: Why are gas prices so high and how long could they stay this way? By Nicole Ellis, Casey Kuhn The average prices of retail gasoline has risen 25 percent in the past two months and nearly 70 percent since President Joe Biden came into office. But what's to blame for skyrocketing gas prices? The COVID pandemic, inflation, the Russian… Continue reading
Mar 16 Amid constant battering of Kyiv, Ukraine and Russia both hopeful about talks By Andrea Rosa, Associated Press Russia’s military forces are blasting Ukraine’s capital region and other major cities as they try to crush a Ukrainian defense that has frustrated their progress nearly three weeks after invading. Continue reading
Mar 16 WATCH: House Foreign Affairs committee holds hearing on possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine By News Desk and Associated Press The House Foreign Affairs committee holds hearing Wednesday on possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Continue reading
Mar 16 European human rights council expels Russia over Ukrainian war By Associated Press The Council of Europe has expelled Russia from the continent's foremost human rights body in an unprecedented move over its invasion and war in Ukraine. Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch 4:30 Russia escalates bombardment of Kyiv as civilian casualties mount By Jane Ferguson, Volodymyr Solohub, Ali Rogin Targeted attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv intensified Tuesday on the 20th day of Russia's invasion. The mayor of Kyiv declared a daylight curfew to extend into Thursday, as talks between Russia and Ukraine continued. And the leaders of three… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch 5:09 Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians remain trapped in Mariupol amid Russian siege By Nick Schifrin, Teresa Cebrian Aranda While Russian troops push closer to Kyiv, they are making the most progress in southern Ukraine. Moscow claimed to have seized all the area around the city of Kherson and continued to starve and strangle the city of Mariupol on… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch 4:01 Russians protest fighting in Ukraine as Moscow asks China for military assistance By Ryan Chilcote As some Russians protest the conflict in Ukraine a former senior Kremlin official has criticized the operations there. This comes after an employee of Russian state television on Monday interrupted a live newscast to demonstrate against the fighting and amid… Continue watching
Mar 15 WATCH: State Department criticizes Russia’s crackdown on journalists amid ongoing attacks on Ukraine By Associated Press The U.S. State Department blasted Russia's crackdown on protesters and journalists, saying 15,000 Russians have been detained by authorities for expressing their opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading
Mar 15 WATCH: ‘We need you right now,’ Ukraine’s Zelensky asks Congress for more help By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has cited Pearl Harbor and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 in appealing to the U.S. Congress to do more to help Ukraine's fight against Russia. Continue reading