By Maksym Levin and Pavel Polityuk BORODYANKA/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine agreed on Thursday to the need for humanitarian corridors to help civilians escape Moscow’s eight-day-old invasion, the first apparent progress in talks, as the …
Hong Kong transport operators, supermarket cut services as COVID surges
By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s subway operator, bus and ferry companies, and one of its biggest supermarket chains, are cutting back services due to a worsening COVID-19 outbreak that has seen daily infections explode since early Feb…
Ukraine’s tech diaspora races to mobilize Silicon Valley in war with Russia
(Refiles to reflect preferred name spelling in paragraph 22) By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) -Ukrainians working at Western tech companies are banding together to help their besieged homeland, aiming to knock down disinforma…
Born in a war: Kyiv maternity hospital carries on under siege
By Mehmet Emin Caliskan KYIV (Reuters) – Sitting on a temporary bed set up along a gloomy underground passageway, expectant mother Alena Shinkar reads a book to try to stay calm. The Ukrainian has been at a Kyiv maternity hospital since before the Russ…
Factbox-What is the chain of command for potential Russian nuclear strikes?
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the weekend that his nation’s nuclear forces should be put on high alert, raising fears that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead to nuclear escalation. Here is how Russia’s chain of command would…
U.S. launches ‘KleptoCapture’ task force aimed at Russian oligarchs
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A new U.S. federal “KleptoCapture” task force will work to further strain the finances of Russia’s oligarchs to pressure the country to cease its invasion of Ukraine, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. The…
Fed’s Powell backs quarter point March rate hike; open to bigger moves later
By Howard Schneider and Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, balancing high U.S. inflation against the complex new risks of a European land war, said Wednesday the central bank would begin “carefully” raising inte…
Ukrainians fight on as Russia bombards cities it has struggled to seize
KYIV/KHARKIV (Reuters) -Ukrainians said on Wednesday they were battling on in the port of Kherson, the first sizeable city Russia claimed to have seized, as air strikes and bombardment caused devastation in cities that Moscow’s bogged down forces have …
U.S. says sanctions on Russian energy ‘on the table’ – but not just yet
By Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is open to imposing sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas industry but going after its exports now could help Moscow, the White House said on Wednesday as oil prices touched eight-yea…
U.N. General Assembly in historic vote assails Russia over Ukraine invasion
By Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to reprimand Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and demanded that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its military force…