Page 20 - Russia Ukraine Conflict

What are the five things that will impact you in 2023?

Is it a mirage or will this year turn out to be better for us? What will be the key developments that need to be tracked in 2023? Bhaswar Kumar tells us in this report

Defiant Ukrainians celebrate New Year despite missile strikes by Russia

Ukraine's Air Force command said it had destroyed 45 Iranian-made Shahed drones overnight

Zelenskyy, Putin promise victory in contradictory New Year speeches

Zelenskyy, recalling some of the most dramatic moments and victories of the war, filled his emotional 17-minute video message with footage of Russia's attacks on the country

Coordinated actions needed to deal with global challenges

The United States and its allies are committed to supporting Ukraine, despite serious hardships, especially in Europe

Pitfalls in second-guessing markets

The crystal ball can never anticipate all big events that move the market, and impact economies and countries. And yet, we have an insatiable desire to lap up forecasts

Russia's domination over Indian crude market will continue in 2023: Experts

Sizeable discounts on Urals grade have helped evade new sanctions by western powers; fate of Russian supplies in Q1 of calendar 2023 rests on oil price movement

Russia-Ukraine conflict casts shadow on Putin's govt as it enters 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin's New Year's address to the nation usually is rather anodyne and backed with a soothing view of a snowy Kremlin. This year, with soldiers in the background, he lashed out at the West and Ukraine. The conflict in Ukraine cast a long shadow as Russia entered 2023. Cities curtailed festivities and fireworks. Moscow announced special performances for soldiers' children featuring the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus. An exiled Russian news outlet unearthed a video of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, now the Ukrainian president despised by the Kremlin, telling jokes on a Russian state television station's New Year's show just a decade ago. Putin, in a nine-minute video shown on TV as each Russian time zone region counted down the final minutes of 2022 on Saturday, denounced the West for aggression and accused the countries of trying to use the conflict in Ukraine to undermine Russia. It was a year of difficult, necessary decisions, the most important steps toward ...

War in Ukraine to tech layoffs: A look at 10 events that defined 2022

2022 will be remembered for a plethora of things but these 10 events will perhaps be on top of the list

On New Year's, Vladimir Putin slams West for hypocrisy, aggression

President Vladimir Putin used his New Year's address to the nation to accuse Western countries of aggression and trying to use the conflict in Ukraine to undermine Moscow. Putin made the video address, shown on state television on Saturday in each of Russia's 11 time zones, from a military headquarters with soldiers in the background, a sharp departure from his previous practice of recording the message against the backdrop of the snowy Kremlin. "It was a year of difficult, necessary decisions, the most important steps toward gaining full sovereignty of Russia and powerful consolidation of our society, he said, echoing his repeated contention that Moscow had no choice but to send troops into Ukraine because it threatened Russia's security. The West lied about peace, but was preparing for aggression, and today it admits it openly, no longer embarrassed. And they cynically use Ukraine and its people to weaken and split Russia, Putin said. "We have never allowed anyone and will not al

After death of 2 Russians, another man living in Odisha's Puri goes missing

After the mystery surrounding the deaths of two Russians, including a lawmaker, in a hotel in Odisha recently, the state police are searching for another man from the same country, a self-proclaimed anti-Ukraine war activist, who has gone missing. The Russian MP was a critic of President Vladimir Putin while the missing man, who used to stay in Puri, was also on the same page, having been sighted earlier on in Odisha's capital holding placards with anti-war and anti-Putin slogans, seeking financial assistance. About a month ago, the man was seen in the Bhubaneswar railway station holding a placard that read: I am Russian Refugee, I am against War, I am against Putin, I am Homeless, Please Help me. The photo of the man holding that placard, clicked by some passenger, has gone viral after the death of his compatriots - lawmaker and businessman Pavel Antov and his fellow traveller Vladimir Bidenov in a hotel in Rayagada district. Antov died after allegedly falling from the hotel's .

Russia attacks Ukraine with 16 Iran-made drones, Kiev officials claim

Officials in Kiev have claimed that Russia attacked Ukraine with 16 Iran-made drones just a day after Moscow struck cities across the war-torn nation with the latest barrage of missile

Oil ends year of wild price swings with second straight annual gain

Prices surged in March as Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended global crude flows, with international benchmark Brent reaching $139.13 a barrel, highest since 2008

Best of BS Opinion: Sobering reality, year of conflict and loss, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Vladimir Putin, Xi hold talks as Russia fires another Ukraine barrage

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed on Friday to deepen their bilateral cooperation against the backdrop of Moscow's 10-month war in Ukraine, which weathered another night of drone and rocket attacks following a massive missile bombardment. Putin and Xi made no direct mention of Ukraine as they held bilateral talks via video conference. But they hailed strengthening ties between Moscow and Beijing amid what they called geopolitical tensions and a difficult international situation. In the face of increasing geopolitical tensions, the significance of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership is growing as a stabilising factor, Putin said. He invited Xi to visit Moscow in the spring. In Ukraine, authorities reviewed the toll from a widespread Russian missile attack on power stations and other vital infrastructure on Thursday that was the biggest such bombardment in weeks. Four civilians were killed during the barrage, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko,

Russia hits Ukraine energy infra with 16 Iran-made drones, says officials

The Ukrainian military said all the drones had been destroyed. Seven had targeted Kyiv, where an administrative building was damaged

2022 newsmakers: From Russia-Ukraine conflict to crypto collapse, and more

2022 ended with further ignominy for former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar, the promoter of NuPower Renewables

Assumptions that didn't survive 2022

In a year marked by conflict and loss, silver linings were few and far between, with many statements much harder to repeat at the end of 2022 than at the beginning

Latest LIVE: Core sector output rises by 5.4% in November vs 3.2% YoY

Live news updates: Noting that doubling of tracks and electrification is underway at a record speed, he said that the eastern and western freight corridors will bring revolutionary changes

Evidence of Russian crimes mounts as war in Ukraine drags in 10th month

Ten months into Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine, overwhelming evidence shows the Kremlin's troops have waged total war, with disregard for international laws governing the treatment of civilians and conduct on the battlefield. Ukraine is investigating more than 58,000 potential Russian war crimes killings, kidnappings, indiscriminate bombings and sexual assaults. Reporting by The Associated Press and Frontline, recorded in a public database, has independently verified more than 600 incidents that appear to violate the laws of war. Some of those attacks were massacres that killed dozens or hundreds of civilians and as a totality it could account for thousands of individual war crimes. As Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, told the AP, Ukraine is a crime scene. That extensive documentation has run smack into a hard reality, however. While authorities have amassed a staggering amount of evidence the conflict is among the most documente

South Korea's consumer price grows 5.1% y-o-y, hits 24-yr high: Govt data

The price of utility services gained 12.6 per cent on-year in 2022, as South Korea, which depends heavily on imports for its energy needs, was hit by soaring global prices of key resources