Volodymyr Zelensky addressed MPs in Parliament via video link today in a historic speech. He said: ‘I would like to tell you about the 13 days of war, the war that we didn’t start and we didn’t want. However we have to conduct this war, we do not want to lose what we have, what is […]
Month: March 2022
McDonald’s to close in Russia
KFC faces mounting pressure to shutter its 1,000 Russian restaurants after McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Starbucks all halted business there indefinitely because of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The chain is the only significant US-owned fast food chain still operating in Russia, after its rivals announced plans to suspend business there indefinitely. KFC is owned by […]
Heartbreaking pictures show Ukrainian children hiding from Russian bombs in shelter
Heartbreaking pictures have emerged of Ukrainian children, trapped in the besieged port city of Mariupol, hiding in shelters from Russian bombs as the occupiers continued their indiscriminate bombing campaigns today. Mariupol is one of the Ukrainian cities worst hit since the invasion began, with Russian forces bringing widespread destruction to residential and administrative centres. And […]
Coca-Cola halts business in Russia
KFC faces mounting pressure to shutter its 1,000 Russian restaurants after McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Starbucks all halted business there indefinitely because of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The chain is the only significant US-owned fast food chain still operating in Russia, after its rivals announced plans to suspend business there indefinitely. KFC is owned by […]
British man blasts refugee crisis after Ukrainian wife is denied entry to UK after he drove to save her
A British businessman who drove his Citroen van 1,300 miles across Europe to rescue his Ukrainian wife has blasted red tape bureaucracy keeping him from taking her home. Steve Lucas, 65, travelled through five countries after wife Anastasia, 51, called to say her fifth floor apartment in the capital Kyiv was ‘shaking all the time’ from Russian […]
Speculation swirls around $700M secret superyacht believed to be owned by Putin
Italian authorities are currently probing whether a mysterious superyacht docked in a northern port should be seized under sanctions against Russia, following speculation that it could belong to Vladimir Putin himself. The $700 million yacht, Scheherazade, is one of the largest and most expensive superyachts in the world, and since its launch in 2020, its true ownership has been […]
Systems that broadcast radiation levels from Chernobyl have stopped sending signals
Systems monitoring nuclear material at the radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl in Ukraine have stopped transmitting data to the UN’s nuclear watchdog. Russian forces surrounded and seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month on the first day of their invasion of Ukraine, and have since refused to let some 210 staff members leave the site. ‘The Director […]
How Vladimir Putin’s invasion is crumbling for Russia’s ‘demoralized’ troops
A convoy advancing toward Kyiv from the north is said to have become stuck in mud as snow has thawed, while demoralised Russian troops are braced for battle in temperatures set to drop to minus 20C later this week. The Russians have also suffered heavy losses on the ground and in the air with Ukrainian soldiers blowing […]
Baby becomes first person ever to receive a heart and thymus transplant
A baby has become the first person in the world to receive a combined heart and thymus transplant — offering hope to millions of patients. Easton Sinnamon was born with a weak heart and immune system and spent his first seven months in hospital. He needed numerous heart operations as well as treatment for recurrent infections […]
Pregnant woman shares ‘hilarious’ comments she receives about her extra large bump
A pregnant woman has shared some of the ‘hilarious’ comments that she receives from people about her extra large bump – including one person who joked that her baby was living in ‘a loft with WiFi’ inside of her belly, and another who wrote that she was carrying a ‘whole adult’ in there. Brooke Luney, […]