Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) $22.48 million for its vessel that was hit by a missile during fighting in Ukraine, two officials involved said on Tuesday.

Russian forces carried out relentless attacks on Bakhmut yesterday, trying to encircle the small eastern Ukrainian city and claim their first major prize for more than half a year after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.

Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) $22.48 million for its vessel that was hit by a missile during fighting in Ukraine, two officials involved have said..The expected settlement is one of the first shipping claims to have been paid out since Russia i

Russian forces yesterday pressed forward their weeks-long drive to encircle and capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut where the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces described the situation as “extremely tense”.

President Vladimir Putin has cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people.

"Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed that it is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy"

Security analysts fear that the Ukraine-Russia war could intensify in the coming days, pushing the whole world into further trouble, unless there are serious peace initiatives to stop the war that began a year ago.

G7 leaders issued a stern warning to any country abetting Russia’s war in Ukraine, as G20 finance ministers, facing objections from China, again failed yesterday to agree on a joint statement on the global economy.

Thirty-two countries including Bangladesh, India, China, Iran, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka abstained from voting

Global financial crime watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) suspended Russia’s membership yesterday, saying Moscow’s war in Ukraine violated the organisation’s principles.

The 12-point paper calling for a "political settlement" of the crisis follows accusations from the West that China is considering arming Russia, a claim Beijing has dismissed as false

The war in Ukraine has been accompanied by a ferocious battle of disinformation, waged in particular by pro-Russian agitators seeking to distort and shift the blame for many atrocities on the ground.

It's a world record. No leader before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has managed to hold an address every single day for a straight year.

In the end, it was a war that began some 5,800 kilometres away a year ago that laid bare the longstanding weaknesses of the Bangladesh economy.

Ukraine “will prevail” over invading Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday, a day before the first anniversary of Moscow’s assault on his country.

China pledged to deepen cooperation with Russia yesterday as US President Joe Biden met leaders of Nato’s eastern flank - highlighting geopolitical tensions ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden yesterday said Ukraine would “never be a victory for Russia”, hours after President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in a nuclear arms treaty with Washington accusing the West of trying to destroy Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, announcing new strategic systems had been put on combat duty and warning that Moscow could resume nuclear tests

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday blamed the West for the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, after Kyiv's allies promised to send new weapons to Ukraine.

Biden, in his trademark aviator sunglasses, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in green battle fatigues, walked side-by-side to a gold-domed cathedral in Kyiv on a bright winter Monday morning pierced by the sound of air raid sirens