Monday 27 June, 2022
Ukrainian swimmers are seeking world championship success in Budapest this week under the shadow of war.
The refinery is located in Russia’s Rostov region, a few kilometres from the border with Ukraine’s separatist region of Lugansk.
The Zoolander star is a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Since being repelled from Kyiv and other parts of the country, Moscow is focusing its offensive on the eastern Donbas region.
Severodonetsk and Lysychansk have been targeted for weeks as the last areas still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Lugansk region.
The bodies of several people whose hands were tied behind their backs have been found in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
It’s the first time that Ukrainian soldiers have been brought to Ireland from the conflict.
Nearly 1,000 children and teens have enrolled in schools here since mid May.
The latest round of proposed sanctions has been blocked by Hungary, which has no access to seafaring oil cargo ships.
Russian and Ukrainian troops are engaged in close-quarter combat in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk today as Moscow’s soldiers attempted to gain strategic footholds in the region.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Russia must suffer a ‘sustained defeat’ in Ukraine.
Rory Fitzgerald says we need to get real in the debate around Irish neutrality in the face of Russian aggression in Europe.
Days before the war began, Yury Filatov branded the suggestion that Russia would invade Ukraine ‘insane’.
Concerns were also raised about Russian Victory Day commemorations on 9 May.
Dr Brendan Flynn of NUI Galway looks at similar historical invasions and walks through possible outcomes.
The announcement has been greeted with skepticism by observers.
Brittney Griner will stay in custody until at least 19 May, it was announced.
“If there is something that really jumps out that we think will improve us, it is something we will bring to the board.”
The Fianna Fáil senator visited Ukraine at the weekend with colleague Billy Kelleher and saw first-hand the suffering there.
Stakhovsky, who famously beat Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2013, last week said he had signed up for Ukraine’s military reserves.
The security analyst says that it would appear at this point that the Russians are seeking to cut Ukraine in two.
Sochi has hosted the race since the first running in 2014 but Saint Petersburg was due to replace it as the venue next year.
IJF President Marius Vizer and the Russian President are long-standing friends, with Vizer praising him in 2014 as “the perfect ambassador for our sport”.
Athletes from those countries were originally told they could compete under a neutral flag, with criticism and the threat of a boycott following.
Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic have all refused to play Russia in the World Cup play-offs.
