Tag: crisis
Watch live: Vladimir Putin gives rare address to Russia
Vladimir Putin is giving a rare address to his nation. The last time he gave a live address was on 24 February, when Russia invaded Ukraine.
In Ukraine's liberated Izium, traumatised residents face further hardship • FRANCE 24 English
FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg and Gwendoline Debono meet traumatised residents of Ukraine's Izium as emergency workers continue to exhume bodies of civilians fo...
Ukraine war: Captured medic's bodycam footage shows horror of Mariupol
Footage filmed by a captured volunteer medic footage has shown the horrors taking place in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after it was smuggled out in a tampon. Using a body-worn camera, 53-year-old Yuliia Paievska recorded 256 gigabytes of video, documen...
Ukraine war: What will Putin do next?
Ukraine is fighting back against Russia. So, what does this mean for Vladimir Putin? Sky's Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay breaks down what the Russian president could do next.
Ukraine counter-offensive: 'Kupyansk cannot yet be considered as a consolidated gain' • FRANCE 24
Moscow has been forced to pull back troops from swathes of the northeast, particularly in the Kharkiv region, following Kyiv's dramatic assault since the beginning of September to wrest back terrain. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from the retaken cit...
Ukrainian forces continue counteroffensive
Ukrainian troops reclaimed more territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border.
Kharkiv: Russia withdraws forces from key northeast towns • FRANCE 24 English
'Zelensky wants to encourage a mood of defiance among Ukrainians', France 24 Gulliver Cragg says. He reports from Kyiv.
Zelensky says Ukraine forces recaptured places near Kharkiv • FRANCE 24 English
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Kyiv troops have recaptured from Russian forces several settlements in the Kharkiv region in the country's northeast. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
Volunteers from the Georgian Legion help Ukrainians repel Russian army • FRANCE 24 English
In the first weeks after the Russian invasion in February, thousands of volunteers from all over the world, not all of them with military experience, flooded into Ukraine to help repel the Russian army. However, Georgian soldiers serving in the Georgian L...
Explosions rock Crimea in suspected Ukrainian attack • FRANCE 24 English
Explosions and fires ripped through an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea on Tuesday in the second suspected Ukrainian attack on the peninsula in just over a week, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people. Russia blamed the blasts in the...
Large explosions rock Russian military air base in Crimea • FRANCE 24 English
At least one person was killed and several others wounded as powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea. Russia’s Defense Ministry denied the base had been shelled and said instead that munitions had blown up there. But Ukrainian social netwo...
Sri Lanka’s President flees country as state of emergency declared - BBC News
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka in a military jet, amid mass protests over the island's economic crisis. The country's air force confirmed the 73-year-old flew to the Maldives with his wife and two security officials.
Battle for Donbass: Ukraine pulls out of Severodonetsk • FRANCE 24 Français.
Ukraine's forces will have to retreat from Severodonetsk, a regional governor said Friday, after weeks of fierce fighting against Russian forces in the battleground eastern city.
Ukraine War: Tanks hidden near the frontline.
Sky News' John Sparks travels to an area not far from the front line in Ukraine and speaks to tank crews, many of who operate hidden in the woods.
REPLAY: Lavrov holds press conference in Turkey for talks on unblocking grain exports • FRANCE 24
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks on Wednesday in Ankara with Turkish officials on a plan that would allow Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea to global markets amid an escalating food crisis. Ukraine is one of the world's l...