https://www.scmp.com/rss/523339/feed News about Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister since September 2024, having previously served as Deputy Head of the Office of the President. His career includes roles as Ambassador to Turkey from 2016 to 2021 and various positions within the Foreign Ministry since 1997. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Associated Press Associated Press Russian strikes killed at least eight people across Ukraine on Friday, including in a “massive” missile and drone attack near the capital, local authorities reported. Ukrainian officials claim the Kremlin is changing its tactics to increase civilian suffering, shifting to daytime barrages and preparing to target more key infrastructure. President Volodymyr Zelensky has signalled Kyiv’s openness to a potential Easter truce. The holiday is celebrated on April 12 in Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3349002/8-die-ukraine-russian-strikes-kyiv-holds-door-open-easter-truce?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3349002/8-die-ukraine-russian-strikes-kyiv-holds-door-open-easter-truce?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:57:46 +0000 dpa dpa Ukrainian ministers launched a protest at plans to reopen the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, in a statement published in Kyiv on Sunday. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Culture Minister Tetyana Berezhna called the admission of Russian artists to international events unacceptable and asked the organisers to reconsider their decision. After all, they had condemned Moscow’s aggression soon after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine more than four years ago, they noted. “It is... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3345911/kyiv-protests-against-moscows-participation-venice-biennale-art-festival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3345911/kyiv-protests-against-moscows-participation-venice-biennale-art-festival?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:43:25 +0000 Laura Zhou,Orange Wang Laura Zhou,Orange Wang Kyiv’s top envoy to Beijing has called on China to play its “important” and “critical” role to help end the war in Ukraine, which is now stretching into a fifth year. “We are working with all international partners to bring a sustainable and lasting peace, and we believe that our host country, China, is uniquely positioned to play an important and in many ways critical role in this process,” Olexander Nechytaylo, Ukrainian ambassador to China, told foreign diplomats in the Chinese capital on... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3344498/ukraine-urges-china-play-critical-role-peace-war-enters-fifth-year?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3344498/ukraine-urges-china-play-critical-role-peace-war-enters-fifth-year?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:14 +0000 Finbarr Bermingham,Laura Zhou Finbarr Bermingham,Laura Zhou On the margins of a glitzy security event in Bavaria, the foreign ministers of France and Germany revived a dormant diplomatic format with China. In what was described as part of a larger effort to prevent the world’s superpowers from picking Europe apart, France’s Jean-Noel Barrot and Germany’s Johann Wadephul hosted Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday. It revived a configuration not seen since the days of French President Emmanuel Macron’s first term, talks that Wang said were “both an... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3343547/farewell-unipolar-moment-europe-scrambles-footing-between-us-and-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3343547/farewell-unipolar-moment-europe-scrambles-footing-between-us-and-china?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:58:33 +0000 Reuters Reuters Ukrainian and Russian officials wrapped up a “productive” first day of ‌new US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi, Kyiv’s lead negotiator said on Wednesday, as fighting in Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II raged on. The ‍two-day trilateral meetings come after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had exploited a US-backed energy truce last week to stockpile munitions, attacking Ukraine with a record number of ballistic missiles on Tuesday. “The work was substantive and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3342428/ukraine-and-russia-wrap-productive-first-day-us-backed-peace-talks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3342428/ukraine-and-russia-wrap-productive-first-day-us-backed-peace-talks?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:24:41 +0000 Reuters Reuters Ukraine and Russia ended a second day of ‍US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi on Saturday without a deal but with more talks expected next weekend, even as overnight Russian air strikes knocked out power for over a million Ukrainians amid sub-zero winter cold. Statements after the conclusion of the talks did not indicate that any agreements had been reached, but Moscow and Kyiv both said they were open to further dialogue. “The central focus of the discussions was the possible parameters for ending... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3341133/us-brokered-ukraine-peace-talks-end-no-deal-russian-strikes-continue?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3341133/us-brokered-ukraine-peace-talks-end-no-deal-russian-strikes-continue?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:31:03 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that a Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv showed Moscow did “not want to end the war”. Zelensky made the comments ahead of his departure for talks in the United States with President Donald Trump on a plan to halt the Russian invasion. The Russians “do not want to end the war and seek to use every opportunity to cause Ukraine even greater suffering and increase their pressure on others around the world”, Zelensky said. “There have... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3337889/kyiv-strike-shows-russia-does-not-want-end-war-zelensky-warns-ahead-us-talks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3337889/kyiv-strike-shows-russia-does-not-want-end-war-zelensky-warns-ahead-us-talks?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:05:02 +0000 Reuters Reuters Russia and the US did not reach a compromise on a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine after a five-hour Kremlin meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s top envoys, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly complained that ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II has been one of the elusive foreign policy aims of his presidency. The US president has at times scolded both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Talks in Moscow between... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3334966/ukraine-talks-putin-meets-trump-envoys-witkoff-and-kushner-sends-europe-warning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3334966/ukraine-talks-putin-meets-trump-envoys-witkoff-and-kushner-sends-europe-warning?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:58:39 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Ukraine was scrambling on Sunday to turn lights and heating back on after Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure reduced the country’s power generating capacity to “zero”. Moscow, which has escalated attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure in recent months, launched hundreds of drones at energy facilities across the country overnight into Saturday. The attacks interrupted electricity, heat and water supplies in several cities, with state power firm Centrenergo warning generating capacity... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3332082/ukraine-faces-blackout-crisis-after-russian-missile-barrage-power-grids?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3332082/ukraine-faces-blackout-crisis-after-russian-missile-barrage-power-grids?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:11:24 +0000 Reuters Reuters Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, and a search was under way for the killer. The Prosecutor General’s office said a gunman had fired several shots at Parubiy, killing him on the spot. The attacker fled and a manhunt was launched, it said. Parubiy, 54, was a member of parliament, had been parliamentary speaker from April 2016 to August 2019, and was one of the leaders of protests in 2013-14 calling for closer ties with the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323777/ex-parliamentary-speaker-ukraine-shot-dead-zelensky-reacts-horrific-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323777/ex-parliamentary-speaker-ukraine-shot-dead-zelensky-reacts-horrific-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:13:48 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A Russia-appointed official in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region said Monday that Moscow’s forces have overrun all of it – one of four regions Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in September 2022 despite not fully controlling a single one. If confirmed, that would make Luhansk the first Ukrainian region fully occupied by Russia after more than three years of war and as recent US-led international peace efforts have failed to make progress on halting the fighting. Russian President Vladimir... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3316488/moscow-appointed-leader-says-russia-has-full-control-ukraines-luhansk-region?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3316488/moscow-appointed-leader-says-russia-has-full-control-ukraines-luhansk-region?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:45:27 +0000