Ukraine crisis

Since 2023, Russia has become China’s top crude oil supplier. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

What role for China in Ukraine?

China presents itself as a peacemaker, but it has benefitted strategically from the Russia's war. For the Chinese government's calculus to change, it would need to conclude that active...

Journalists at a center for forensic analysis in undisclosed location in Ukraine on November 24, 2024, film fragments of what authorities in Kyiv described as a Russian hypersonic missile that struck a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine on 21 November. File Photo: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka
World+Biz

US warns Russia may use new lethal missile against Ukraine soon

Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcomed by Chinese President Xi Jinping during a ceremony at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, October 17, 2023. Sputnik/Sergei Savostyanov/Pool via REUTERS
World+Biz

Putin backs China's Ukraine peace plan, says Beijing understands the conflict

The US Capitol building in Washington, US, on 26 January 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
World+Biz

US Republicans urge Ukraine aid vote, after 'Russian propaganda' warnings

Alona Onyshchuk, 39, with her daughter Anhelina, 5, visit her husband's grave at the Alley of Heroes at a local cemetery, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Lozuvatka, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Alina Smutko
World+Biz

How life in Ukraine has been shattered by two years of war

Ukrainian troops pose for a photo in Lyman, Ukraine in this picture released in social media October 1, 2022. Courtesy of Oleksiy Biloshytskyi/via REUTERS
World+Biz

Ukraine's citizen army struggles with a hidden enemy: Combat stress

FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy waits for European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine March 4, 2023. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
Global Economy

Ukraine economy heads for tough 2024 as Western aid concerns grow

Founder of Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin makes a statement as he stand next to Wagner fighters in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Bakhmut, Ukraine, in this still image taken from video released May 20, 2023. Press service of "Concord"/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Russian forces intensify pressure on Ukraine's Avdiivka, Kherson

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks to the media on the day of a NATO Defence Ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy, at NATO HQ, seeks arms to get through winter

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as he holds a press conference with Finland's President Sauli Niinisto in Helsinki, Finland, July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Biden presses Republicans after spending bill drops Ukraine aid

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 19, 2023. REUTERSCaitlin Ochs
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At UN, Zelenskiy tells Russia to stop war so world can fight climate, other crises

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses South Korean parliament via video link, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 11, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
Europe

Heading for UN, Ukraine's president questions why Russia still has a place there

Soldiers hold flags as they speak in front of destroyed buildings in Klishchiivka, Ukraine, as seen in this screen grab taken from a social media video released September 17, 2023. Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of Ground Forces/via REUTERS
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Ukraine retakes more territory in the east, south in counteroffensive