When Dasha and the other children emerged from their basement and into their newly occupied village it was for food. They were hiding from the Russians, who had fired shots into the air, at cars -- and at people. Source: Latest CNN News
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh speaks with 16-year-old Dasha, who says she was raped by a Russian soldier in her village in Ukraine's Kherson region. CNN cannot independently verify Dasha's story, but Ukrainian prosecutors in the Kherson region said in a statement they had investigated her account. Source: Latest CNN News
CNN's Sam Kiley goes to Severodonetsk, Ukraine, a frontline city in the war with Russia, to talk to Ukrainians desperate for resources as they live amid Russian shelling. Source: Latest CNN News
The war in eastern Ukraine appears to be entering a critical phase, as Russia pours in more fighting units and Ukrainian forces try to hold lines battered by weeks of shelling and rocket fire. Source: Latest CNN News
Vladimir Putin issued a vague threat to countries intervening in Ukraine. Ret. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges discusses what to make of it and how the US and allies should respond. Source: Latest CNN News
Russia has started to turn off the supply of natural gas to Europe, making good on a threat to halt deliveries to "unfriendly" countries that refuse to make payments in rubles. Source: Latest CNN News
Concerns that the Ukraine war could escalate into a wider conflict grew on Tuesday as Kyiv accused Moscow of trying to create unrest in a Russian-backed separatist region of Moldova. The United Nations and United States warned of rising tensions in the Transnistria region of Moldova, as UN chief Antonio Guterres met with Russian President [...]
The rehabilitation and extension of Seychelles' Port Victoria are in motion with potential contractors undertaking a site visit on Wednesday to better understand the extent of work that needs to be carried out before final bids are made. The project being undertaken by the Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA) aims at having a modern international multi-purpose commercial port at [...]
Russia said Wednesday it had destroyed a large quantity of Western-supplied weapons in Ukraine, while halting gas supplies to EU and NATO members Poland and Bulgaria in a move condemned by European capitals as attempted blackmail. With the conflict that has claimed thousands of lives entering its third month, Ukraine conceded Russian forces had pushed [...]
