Ukraine’s prosecutor general Andriy Kostin resigns amid draft-dodging scandal

(Reuters) - Ukraine's prosecutor general, Andriy Kostin, said on Tuesday he had resigned, in the wake of a domestic scandal where dozens of officials are alleged to have abused their position to receive disability status and avoid military service. The resignation followed a meeting of the national security and defence council, where officials discussed how to...

Trump vows to end Ukraine war as he meets with Zelenskiy

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Friday he would work with both Ukraine and Russia to end their war, as he stood next to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy before their meeting in New York. (Reporting by Helen Coster, Steve Holland, Doina Chiacu)

Zelenskiy says the West should permit long-range attacks, supply more weapons

(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday Ukraine's Western allies should not only allow their weapons to be used for strikes deep inside Russia, but also supply Kyiv with more of the arms themselves. Ukraine has long urged partners to allow it to fire Western weapons at targets far into enemy territory, and those calls...

India PM Modi to visit Ukraine, weeks after rebuking Putin in Moscow

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine, the foreign ministry said on Monday (Aug 19), his first trip to the war-torn country since its conflict with Russia and about a month after he met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Details of the trip will be shared later in the day, the foreign ministry...

Ukraine says it controls 1,000 square km of Russia’s Kursk region

(Reuters) - Ukraine's top commander said on Monday Kyiv controlled around 1,000 square kilometers of Russia's Kursk region, his first public comments since Ukraine launched its biggest cross-border attack in almost 2-1/2 years of full-scale war. With Russia still struggling to repel the incursion seven days after it began, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published a video clip...

Ukraine and Russia announce major prisoner swap

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russia announced their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly four months on Friday, with 150 people freed after negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 75 Ukrainian prisoners had been returned from Russia. They included four civilians while the rest were members of the...

Fire and Rescue Department pilots to undergo simulated emergency training in UAE

KUANTAN: The Fire and Rescue Department will be sending its pilots to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for simulated helicopter emergency training to enhance the skills of its personnel. Its director-general Datuk Nor Hisham Mohammad said JBPM has been allocated RM800,000 to send all 17 of its pilots to that country. He said the simulated training is...

World Court dismisses much of Ukraine’s case against Russia

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Judges at the top U.N. court on Wednesday found that Russia violated elements of a U.N. anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule on allegations brought by Kyiv that Moscow was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. In the same ruling, judges at the...

Malaysians spotted as mercenaries in Ukraine’s Donetsk region

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians have been spotted as mercenaries operating in the occupied Donetsk region, says the Ukraine National Resistance Centre. The Centre - which is run by the Ukraine government's Special Operations Forces - said that these mercenaries were accompanied by a translator and a former member of the Wagner Group at a training ground in...

Woman accused of killing Russian war blogger says handler lied about bomb

(Reuters) - A Russian woman accused of assassinating a prominent pro-war blogger told a court on Tuesday she had thought the package she handed to him in a St Petersburg cafe contained a listening device, not a bomb. Darya Trepova said she was acting under orders from a man in Ukraine whom she knew as "Gestalt"...