Shorouk Express Russia launches 74 drones in overnight attack Russia launched 74 drones in an overnight attack, the Ukrainian air force said on Wednesday. Air defences shot down 41 of these drones and 20 others did not reach their targets, likely due to electronic warfare measures. It is unclear what happened to the remaining 13…
Shorouk Express Russia claims to have taken control of Zaporizhzhia settlement in Donetsk Russia’s defence ministry says it has captured Zaporizhzhia, a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, after a missile attack. “Battlegroup Center units completed the liberation of the settlement of Zaporozhye in the Donetsk People’s Republic through successful offensive operations,” the ministry said in…
Shorouk Express Top European officials rushed to Washington as the United States and Russia move closer to a potential ceasefire in Ukraine. Germany’s national security adviser, Jens Plötner, traveled to Washington on Friday for urgent talks alongside his British counterpart, Jonathan Powell, and French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic adviser, Emmanuel Bonne. The three met with…
Shorouk Express But the Ukrainians have struggled to hold onto it amid a Russian counterattack that has seen villages and settlements slowly come back under the control of Moscow. Russia this week claimed to have recaptured the majority of the seized territory, including the town of Sudzha, Kyiv’s biggest prize, along with hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers….
Shorouk Express Will Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s olive branch to Donald Trump be enough to secure Ukraine’s future — and his own? After his bruising encounter with the U.S. president in the Oval Office, Zelenskyy issued an eleventh-hour missive and said he was ready to sign the minerals deal and “work fast to end the…
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Shorouk Express Donald Trump’s aide tells Volodymyr Zelensky to ‘tone it down’ as US cancels Kyiv press conference For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails US president…
Shorouk Express Given the long history of French frustration with Berlin, Merz’s comments were welcomed by politicians, officials and analysts in France, Germany and the U.K. Even some of his political opponents acknowledge privately that talking to the British and French about nuclear protection would be a sensible step. “That a future chancellor, chief of…
