Dual Dutch and Spanish national Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle is number two on the D66 list for the June 6 European parliamentary elections. The EU, she tells Dutch News, offers “amazing freedom”. The European Union has shaped the life of Raquel García Hermida-van der […]
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A Dutch national who volunteered to fight for Ukraine has died on the battlefield, the foreign affairs ministry has confirmed. The man is said to have joined the Ukrainian Foreign Legion and died on May 20 near Chasiv Yar in the north of the Donetsk […]
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The man who died at Schiphol airport after becoming caught up in the motor of a KLM Cityhopper had deliberately climbed into the engine, Dutch border police said on Thursday evening. The aircraft had just completed the pushback procedure and was about to taxi to […]
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A 12 year-old Ukrainian refugee described as an exceptional pianist says earning a place at the Royal Academy of Music is “like a dream”. Kateryna Pyshniuk and her mother Anna fled the Ukraine war after a month and live with a host family in Bristol. […]
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Germany will only send battle tanks to Ukraine if the US does the same, multiple reports suggest. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under increasing international and domestic pressure to supply German-built Leopard 2 tanks or at least approve their delivery by third countries. Poland and Finland […]
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A helicopter crash in the suburbs of Kyiv has killed 14 people, including one child and Ukraine’s interior affairs minister – the country’s highest-profile casualty since the war began. Ukraine has launched an investigation into the cause of the crash, but it could take weeks. […]
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Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has offered his resignation after suggesting a Russian missile which hit a building in Dnipro, killing 44 people, was shot down by Kyiv. Mr Arestovych apologised and said he had made a “fundamental error”. The original remark caused widespread anger […]
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As the UK and other European nations prepare to send tanks to Ukraine to help it liberate more territory from Russia, our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit members of a front-line Ukrainian tank unit already engaging Russian forces near the fiercely contested towns […]
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I am one of the lucky few who has not yet tested positive for covid-19. This is despite the fact that for my research I work in contact with sars-cov-2 alive and able to reproduce, I have face-to-face lectures at university and I have children […]
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President Putin said “everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the ministry of defence and the general staff”. Belarus, on Ukraine’s northern border, is beginning joint air force drills with Russia on Monday. The Belarusian defence ministry insists they will be defensive, […]
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But before we go, here’s a recap of today’s main developments:
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When Andriy gathered his family together and fled the war in Ukraine with only what they could carry, the last place he thought he would end up was on a cruise ship. But for the past five months, the MS Ambition, docked in Glasgow, has […]
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Ukraine has become a de facto member of the Nato alliance, the Ukrainian defence minister says, as Western countries, once concerned that military assistance could be seen as an escalation by Russia, change their “thinking approach”. In an interview with the BBC, Oleksii Reznikov said […]
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