
TOPPING OUR NEWS TONIGHT...

Finland and Sweden poised to join NATO
{O/C} An epochal shift in the political landscape in Europe is in store now that both Finland and Sweden, originally non-aligned, are due...

Russia planning to annex parts of eastern Ukraine
{O/C} The running battle in the Mariupol steel mill plant resumed today after civilians were evacuated. This, as U.S. officials...

US diplomats returning to Ukraine sporadically
{O/C} And after the United States withdrew diplomats from the war-embattled Ukraine prior to the invasion, American diplomats are now...

UN chief denounces Russian attacks
{O/C} The United Nations Secretary-General visited Ukraine today, two months into the running battle. But a defiant Moscow continued to...

Biden seeks 33 billion dollars for Ukraine
{O/C} On the diplomatic front, U.S. President Joe Biden has requested 33 billion U.S. dollars in all to shore up Ukraine's defence...

Fighting persists as Putin claims victory in Mariupol
{O/C} Fighting has persisted in Ukraine in the second month of the war. A defiant Russian President Vladimir Putin today nailed his...

US, Canadian, British and Ukrainian officials walk out of Russia's G20 speech
{O/C} At a G20 meeting on Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, along with top finance officials from Canada, Britain and...

Russian flagship Moskva sunk
{O/C} {Good evening} The vagaries of the Russia-Ukraine war today saw the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, Moskva, sink after...

Some 10,000 civilians dead in besieged Mariupol
{O/C} With India now treading a tightrope, U.S. President Joe Biden exhorted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to double down his...

Ukraine prepares for escalated Russian attacks
O/C} An escalated Russian offensive is in the offing tonight following the appointment of a new military commander in Russia. Amid images...

Zelensky calls for tough response to Russia
{O/C} The death toll from the deadly missile attack on a train station in eastern Ukraine has risen to 52 and more than 100 were injured....

Zelensky on "60 minutes" on Russian war crimes
{O/C} In another development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went on "60 minutes", saying the train station attack was among the...

More grisly discoveries expected in Ukraine; Russia kicked out of UN human rights council
{O/C} It was a day of horror in Ukraine after Russian forces retreated, leaving a scorched earth behind as yet another missile attack...

Ukraine accuses Moscow of genocide
{O/C} Sobering scenes coming out of Ukraine today as hundreds of corpses lay in ruins on the outskirts of Kiev. This, according to...

Pope Francis may be headed to Kiev
{O/C} Pope Francis said he was working on arranging a meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church despite the leader's apparent...

Putin demands rubles for gas
{O/C} Knowing that his country's economy is on the receiving end of the ceaseless Russian invasion had Russia's President demanding...

Russia breaks promise, escalating attacks on Ukraine
{O/C} We begin tonight in Ukraine, whose President called for further assistance from Western countries to help Ukraine fend off the...

Ukrainian buses to reach Mariupol
{O/C} At the same time, a convoy of 45 Ukrainian buses have set out for the hardest-hit southern strategic port city of Mariupol to...

Stalemate in Ukraine war persists ahead of talks
{O/C} On the war front, Ukrainian forces claimed to have regained control of a Kiev suburb and an eastern town from Russian hands. While...













