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Friday, September 27, 2024
TopicPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Topic: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to meet British PM Sunak in London, hopeful of substantive negotiations

Zelenskiy tweeted that the ‘UK is a leader when it comes to expanding our capabilities on the ground and in the air and this cooperation will continue.’

Ukraine a year into war: ‘Wasteland’ towns, Russia’s anniversary attack & Zellenskyy’s political woes

After battling corruption scandals earlier on, Ukraine President had established himself as leader for country & its allies to rally around. But as war drags, doubts resurface.

‘Putin thought Ukraine was weak, but he was dead wrong,’ says Biden during Kyiv visit

The US president promised $500 million worth of weaponry, including artillery ammunition, anti-armour systems and air defence radars to Ukraine, plus tighter sanctions on Russia.

‘Support will endure,’ Joe Biden in Kyiv, visits monastery of fallen heroes amid air sirens

The US President said his country had built a coalition of nations from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the last year to ‘help defend Ukraine’.

On UK visit, Ukraine President Zelenskyy wins pledge to train pilots on NATO jets

The move is being seen as a symbolic step up in Western military support. London was Zelenskyy's first stop on only his second trip abroad since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Zelensky flags changes in government after corruption allegations

The Ukrainian President Monday said changes would be announced imminently in the government & security forces, in his nightly video address but did not identify the officials to be replaced.

Russia increases shelling in areas outside of Donbass

Ukrainian military's defence ministry said Russia continues its offensive in Zaporizhzhia, increasingly using air power. Twenty five settlements in the region were affected by Russian artillery fire

Russian strikes hit targets across Ukraine, at least 12 dead in Dnipro

Russia unleashed major attacks on Ukraine Saturday, hitting energy infrastructure & residential buildings. President Zelenskiy appealed to the West for more weaponry to end 'Russian terror'.

‘There will be no third World War, it is not a trilogy’: Zelenskyy’s message at Golden Globes

Sharing an impactful speech via video at the annual awards ceremony, Volodymyr Zelensky said that the war in Ukraine is not over yet, but noted 'it is already clear who will win.'

‘Ukraine is alive and kicking,’ President Zelenskiy tells US Congress

He also told the house that the tens of billions of dollars of aid it had approved to help it fight a Russian invasion was not charity, but an investment in global security.

On Camera

India has 2 women CMs now. Atishi and Mamata Banerjee are both victims of bad PR

Women look up to women in power as role models. But so far, Atishi’s public image is that of a woman-in-waiting rather than a woman-in-charge.

Tamil Nadu govt & Ford go way back. How carmaker’s return is new chapter in story that began in 1995

High value of 350-acre Ford plant property drove TN to encourage Ford to return over nearly a yr of negotiations. It's expected to reinforce state's resurgence as global manufacturing hub.

A fitness & fighter aircraft enthusiast, who is Air Marshal AP Singh, the next Chief of Air Force

Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as chief on 30 September. During his service of nearly 40 yrs, he has served in variety of command, staff, instructional & foreign appointments.

Lesson from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan: if you have no patience, you don’t deserve democracy

Sri Lankan transition was smoothly managed. Check Bangladesh for contrast. They forced their incumbent into exile, installed a mostly unelectable govt of non-political people.