On Saturday, Japanese Foreign Minister, Takeshi Iwaya, pledged his unwavering support for Kiev. During his visit to the Ukrainian capital, and in particular to the city of Buchah, where Russian soldiers are accused of committing the worst atrocities against civilians,

By Guy Faulconbridge, Marina Bobrova and Maxim Rodionov MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Ukraine war was escalating towards a global conflict after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to hit Russia with their weapons,

Ukraine said Russia launched a “new” kind of ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro, in the latest escalation of hostilities and an alarming signal to Kyiv’s Western backers.

The missile carried conventional, not nuclear warheads, although a Ukrainian official said it was an attempt to “frighten the world with nuclear weapons.”

Russia’s attacks on the power grid and Ukrainian conventional power plants is negatively affecting the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear fleet,” Per Strand, director general of the Norwegian Radi Nuclear Safety Authority,