Author: Victor I. Nava, Washington Examiner

Russia’s largest chemical plant erupted in flames on Thursday just hours after a fire engulfed a military research center outside of Moscow, killing seven people. The first fire broke out at the Russian Defense Ministry’s Aerospace Defense Forces’ Central Research Institute in the northwestern city of Tver, about 100 miles outside of Moscow. Seven people…

The United States is committed to providing Ukraine another $500 million in direct economic assistance to help fund “critical government operations” in the war-torn country, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced on Thursday. Yellen announced the economic assistance package at a news conference at the Treasury Department Thursday after meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has canceled a plan to storm a steel plant in Mariupol where the Ukrainian city’s remaining defense forces have been holed up in a last stand. In a meeting televised by Russian state media, Putin instead ordered Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Thursday to seal off the Azovstal steel plant “so…

Russian forces have destroyed all the food stocks in one Ukrainian city as their offensive in the eastern part of the country escalates, according to a local official. The governor of the Luhansk region in Donbas said on Thursday that all food warehouses in the city of Sievierodonetsk have been leveled by Russian troops. Residents…

The commander of Ukrainian forces trapped by Russian troops under a steel plant in Mariupol issued what he said could be the “last appeal” of his life on Tuesday, begging world leaders, including President Joe Biden, for help negotiating safe passage out of the besieged city in eastern Ukraine. Maj. Serhiy Volyna of Ukraine’s 36th…

Russia has banded together up to 20,000 lightly-equipped mercenaries to fight in the Battle of Donbas, according to a report on Tuesday. The soldiers for hire include Syrian and Libyan nationals, as well as other infantrymen recruited by the Wagner Group, a Russian-backed private military company, according to an unnamed European official cited in the…

Uber is ending its policy requiring drivers and riders to wear masks during trips in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. Uber’s reversal of its pandemic-era policy comes on the heels of a Florida judge overturning the federal mask mandate for public transportation and transportation hubs on Monday. “As of April 19, 2022,…

A governor in Ukraine’s Donbas region urged residents to evacuate immediately on Tuesday as Russian tanks rolled into the region. The call comes as Ukrainian officials say no humanitarian corridors have been established in the country for the third consecutive day. The plea from the head of Luhansk, in the Donbas region, was made after…

One person was wounded in an attack on a Russian village near the Ukrainian border on Tuesday that a Russian official is blaming on Ukraine. The alleged shelling occurred about 8 miles from the Ukrainian border in the village of Golovchino in Russia’s Belgorod region. One woman was hurt in the attack, according to the…

At least 1,000 civilians, including women and children, are sheltering underneath the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol alongside the city’s remaining defense forces that are refusing to surrender to Russian troops. Video released by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday shows women and children purportedly sheltering in the basement of the sprawling industrial…