America’s top envoy pledges to continue raising atrocities with responsible governments days before he is expected to meet senior officials in Beijing.

Ukraine says its soldiers will benefit from the aid package as Western leaders laud the US move, noting it will help ‘make us all safer’.

The Russian president ‘frightens people, he keeps them in fear’, said Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the dissident who died in a Siberian prison camp in February, in an interview.

A long-delayed US$61 billion in funding for Kyiv’s forces has cleared the House but still needs a vote in the Senate.

Special envoy Li Hui’s latest mission to Europe was met with scepticism, and could be seen as ‘signalling’ to the Global South that China is a responsible power.

The Ukrainian president is seeking more air defence systems from Western allies after a drone of fatal drone and missile attacks from Russia.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson relied heavily on lawmakers from the rival party to overcome a blockade from his conservatives colleagues.

Ukraine said that, for the first time since Russia’s invasion, it had downed a Russian long-range bomber used to fire cruise missiles at its cities.

At a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy, a US official said China is ‘contributing to Russia’s ability to prosecute’ the Ukraine war in ways that threaten all of Europe.

Poland’s National Prosecutor said the man, arrested on Wednesday, was accused of being prepared to pass airport security information to Russian agents.

Legislation comes amid alarm in Washington over volume of material moving from Beijing to Moscow and said to be turning up on battlefields in Ukraine.

Speaker Mike Johnson is seeking final passage on Saturday for the package, which includes US$61 billion in funding for Kyiv long-delayed by Trump loyalists.

President Zelensky called on Kyiv’s allies to rush in air defence support after the city, which had a pre-war population of 300,000, became the latest target of an intensifying Russian air strike campaign.

The BBC found that more than 27,300 Russian soldiers died during the second year of the war, a 25-percent increase on the first year.

The Ukraine president says China could play a role in securing an end to the war, as he seeks Beijing’s backing for a peace summit in Switzerland.

Republican congressman Thomas Massie says he supports hardline colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene’s move to remove Johnson from the leadership role.

Analysts say China has long called for a ceasefire anyway, whereas any demand that it explicitly condemn Russia is likely to fail.

The destroyed Trypilska thermal power plant was the largest energy facility near Kyiv and was built to have a capacity of 1,800 megawatts, more than the pre-war needs of Ukraine’s biggest city

Chinese leader tells the German chancellor that neither side poses a security threat to the other and they should continue to strengthen their economic ties.

Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled an elaborate plan to break a US aid package into separate votes to squeeze through the House’s political divides on foreign policy. The move could end a months-long Republican blockade on help for Ukraine.

The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has come under a series of drone attacks since April 7.

US Treasury Secretary’s meetings to include talks with China on ‘balanced growth’, a new dialogue to address China’s excess industrial capacity for EVs, solar panels and other clean energy goods.

Readers say Ukraine’s Nato status is unlikely to change the course of the war, and praise atomic bomb survivor Japan’s decision to finally screen Oppenheimer film