Russian journalist killed near Ukraine frontline

A war correspondent for Russia's RIA news agency has been killed and three other journalists wounded in shelling near the frontline in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, Russia's defence ministry says, Reuters reports.

Russian ambassador, urgently summoned to the MFA in Warsaw, after Vladimir Putin's provocative statements

The Russian ambassador to Poland, Serghei Andreev, was urgently summoned to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after the statements made on Friday by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, qualified by Warsaw as "provocative".

South African high court orders government to arrest Vladimir Putin

The South African government has been ordered by the high court to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he ever sets foot in the country, in compliance with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) directive, BBC reports.

Crimea bridge closed after fuel depot hit

A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea has led to civilian evacuations and disrupted transport, Russian authorities have said, BBC reports.

Odesa: UNESCO strongly condemns attack on World Heritage property

Further to the statement made by the UN Secretary-General, UNESCO condemns the Russian attack in the buffer zone of the World Heritage property “The Historic Centre of Odesa”, affecting buildings of cultural significance within the property, reads a press release of UNESCO.

Armenian PM says another War with Azerbaijan 'likely' unless Peace Treaty is signed

Armenia Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says a fresh war with Azerbaijan remains a high probability in the absence of a peace treaty between the two countries, RFE reports.

Mircea Geoană: NATO would go to war against Russia, if Ukraine were accepted into the Alliance

Ukraine cannot currently be invited to join NATO, as the Alliance does not want to go to war with Russia, said the Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mircea Geoană, in an interview for the New York Times. At the same time, the official stated that the current situation is completely different from that of 2008, when at the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Ukraine and Georgia were promised the Accession Action Plan.

Ukraine started using cluster bombs against Russian soldiers

Ukrainian troops have begun using cluster munitions as part of a counter-offensive against Russia, hotnews.ro reports. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said yesterday that US-supplied cluster munitions are in Ukrainian hands. At the same time, the United States is still waiting for an update from the Ukrainian military on how effective this - controversial - cluster munition is on the battlefield, according to one US official.

Wheat prices rose on Thursday for the third day in a row amid worsening conflict between Russia and Ukraine

Wheat prices rose Thursday for the third straight day after Russia threatened to treat ships heading for Ukrainian ports as military cargo carriers, deepening fears of a global food security crisis, CNBC reports. Much of Ukraine's grain and food is exported to countries in Africa and the Middle East, hotnews.co.uk reports.

Russia has no plans to attack civilian ships in the Black Sea, Moscow's ambassador to Washington assures

Russia is not preparing attacks on civilian cargo ships in the Black Sea, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said on Thursday, after the White House raised the possibility of such attacks and the Russian Defense Ministry itself conveyed that it will consider ships heading for Ukraine as potential military cargo shipments, following Russia's withdrawal from the agreement that provided a safe navigable corridor for Ukrainian grain exports, Reuters reports.

United States announces new sanctions against Russia

The administration in Washington announced on Thursday additional sanctions against individuals and companies accused of involvement in supplying equipment for Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, reports mediafax.ro.

Chinese consulate in Odessa damaged in Russian airstrike

A Chinese consulate building in the Ukrainian port of Odessa was partially damaged during Russian air strikes last night, according to Oleg Kiper, head of the Odessa regional military administration.