Latest Ukraine government News

NATO's secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss battlefield and ammunition needs in Ukraine

Sep. 28, 2023 08:29 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops on Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea...

House Speaker McCarthy is back to square one as the Senate pushes ahead to avert a federal shutdown

Sep. 27, 2023 23:36 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one — asking his hard-right Republicans to do what they have said they would never do: approve their own temporary House measure to keep the...

Trudeau apologizes for recognition of Nazi unit war veteran in Canadian Parliament

Sep. 27, 2023 17:05 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Wednesday for Parliament’s recognition of a man who fought alongside the Nazis during last week’s address by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trudeau said the speaker of the House of Commons, who resigned...

Bulgarian parliament approves additional weapons to Ukraine to aid in its war with Russia

Sep. 27, 2023 13:46 PM EDT

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s parliament Wednesday approved the provision of additional military aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia. At a closed-door meeting, lawmakers voted 141-40, with three abstentions, in favor of supplying Ukraine with defective surface-to-air...

Britain approves new North Sea oil drilling in welcome news for the industry but not activists

Sep. 27, 2023 11:55 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Britain on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. The...

Russia accuses Ukraine's Western allies of helping attack its Black Sea Fleet headquarters

Sep. 27, 2023 11:49 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula. “There is no doubt that the attack had been planned in advance using...

Congress says it wants to avoid a shutdown. But the House and Senate are moving even further apart.

Sep. 27, 2023 07:46 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal shutdown — the Senate charging ahead with a bipartisan package to temporarily fund the government but the House slogging through a longshot effort with no real chance of finishing by Saturday's...

A hard-right party gathers strength in Poland, pushing a new, less friendly course on Ukraine

Sep. 27, 2023 05:27 AM EDT

KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Poland’s hard-right Confederation party opened its electoral campaign convention as if it were a rock concert, with a singer riding up on a motorcycle, its engine revving, and a pyrotechnic show of flames and sparklers. The party has been growing in...

Russian drone strikes on Odesa region hit port area and cut ferry service to Romania

Sep. 26, 2023 17:40 PM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck the Black Sea region of Odesa in a drone barrage that damaged a warehouse, charred dozens of trucks and injured two drivers in fiery explosions that led to the suspension of the ferry service between Romania and Ukraine, officials said Tuesday. ...

Canada's House speaker resigns over inviting a man who fought for a Nazi unit to Parliament

Sep. 26, 2023 16:51 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons resigned Tuesday for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to Parliament to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president. Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an address...