Pope: 'Stop the massacre'
“In the name of God, let the cry of the suffering people be heard, and let the bombings and attacks stop," he said during his weekly Sunday prayer at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
“In the name of God, let the cry of the suffering people be heard, and let the bombings and attacks stop," he said during his weekly Sunday prayer at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
Russia could use chemical and biological weapons, US warns. The US says Russia could be trying to legitimise attacks with false claims of a biological weapons programme in Ukraine.
The World Health Organization today warned that attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, ambulances and other health care facilities have increased “rapidly” in recent days and vital medical supplies are running low.
A new Russian ceasefire proposal to allow civilians to flee key cities has been branded "immoral" by Ukraine.
People in Kyiv will be offered safe passage to Russia's ally Belarus, while those in Kharkiv will have a leading corridor only to Russia itself.
Ankara would like to organize a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a press conference in the wake of emergency meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers Friday.
Mariupol officials say Russian troops not observing ceasefire to allow civilian escape
Russia's invasion of Ukraine entered its second week on Thursday an apparent tactical failure so far, with its main assault force stalled for days on a highway north of Kyiv and other advances halted at the outskirts of cities it is bombing into wastelands.
The resolution, supported by 141 of the assembly's 193 members, passed in a rare emergency session called by the U.N. Security Council while Ukrainian forces battled to defend the port of Kherson in the face of air strikes and a devastating bombardment that forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee.