Author: Andrea Rosa
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Russian retreat reveals destruction as Ukraine asks for help
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CHERNIHIV, Ukraine • Russian troops left behind crushed buildings, streets littered with destroyed cars and residents in dire need of food and other aid in a northern Ukrainian city, giving fuel to Kyiv’s calls Thursday for more Western support to help halt Moscow’s offensive before it refocuses on the country’s east. Dozens of people lined…
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After Russian forces pull back, a shattered town breathes
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TROSTYANETS, Ukraine • The bodies of two Russian soldiers lie abandoned in the woods. Ukrainian forces piled atop a tank flash victory signs. Dazed people line up amid charred buildings to reach for aid. These are the sights in a Ukrainian town that has seized back control from Russian forces, at least for now. Arriving…
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Rescuers search theater rubble as Russian attacks continue
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KYIV, Ukraine • Rescue workers searched for survivors Thursday in the ruins of a theater blown apart by a Russian airstrike in the besieged city of Mariupol, while scores of Ukrainians across the country were killed in ferocious urban attacks on a school, a hostel and other sites. Hundreds of civilians had been taking shelter…
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Russia’s onslaught continues amid optimism over talks
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KYIV, Ukraine • Russian forces destroyed a theater in Mariupol where hundreds of people were sheltering Wednesday and rained fire on other cities, Ukrainian authorities said, even as the two sides projected optimism over efforts to negotiate an end to the fighting. The airstrike ripped apart the center of the once-elegant building, where hundreds of…
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Ukraine: Tone improves in Russia talks even as Kyiv is hit
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KYIV, Ukraine • Ukraine said Tuesday that Russia seemed to soften its stand in the talks aimed at halting the fighting, even as Moscow’s forces stepped up their bombardment of Kyiv, smashing apartments, a subway station and other civilian sites. Elsewhere around the country, civilians in at least 2,000 cars fled Mariupol along a humanitarian…
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Beirut pauses to remember the dead
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BEIRUT • The shattered city of Beirut on Tuesday marked a week since the catastrophic explosion that killed at least 171 people, injured thousands and plunged Lebanon into a deeper political crisis. Thousands of people marched near the devastated port, remembering those who died in the most destructive single blast to hit the country. They…