Ukraine Crisis

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The MS Victoria, which is docked in Edinburgh.

Refugee cruise ship berthed in Glasgow operational by next month
A second cruise ship berthed on the Clyde could be used to house Ukrainian refugees arriving in Scotland prompting concern from human rights campaigners.

The Razoni cargo ship, under the flag of Sierra Leone, with 26,000 tons of the Ukrainian corn aboard, leaves the port in Odesa region, Ukraine.

First grain ship leaves Ukrainian Black Sea port after deal

Russia bans series of Scottish politicians over their stance on war in Ukraine

Russia bans series of Scottish politicians over their stance on war in Ukraine

Ukraine exports grain which is vital to millions of people in Africa, parts of the Middle East and South Asia, who are already facing food shortages and, in some cases, famine.

Safety concerns stunt rush to export grain from Ukraine after Black Sea deal

Odesa was targeted by Russia shells earlier this month (Nina Lyashonok/AP)

Russian missiles target Odesa hours after deal to allow grain exports from port

Yet another grave is dug for a Ukrainian civilian killed in a Russian attack, this time in Pokrovsk in the east of the country

Letters: We have to stand firm against Russia's fascist regime

A Ukrainian serviceman lights a candle at the site of a Russian attack on Vinnytsia on Thursday which killed at least 23 people

Letters: We must not let our support for Ukraine backslide

SNP Ukrainian Refugees Minister Neil Gray

Updated Ukrainian refugees to be sheltered on ship as super sponsor scheme paused

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Friday, July 8, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a meeting with military officials during his visit the war-hit Dnipropetrovsk region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press

Ukrainian official warns of 'catastrophe' in captured city

Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joy, center, participates in the opening session of the G-20 Foreign Ministers' Summit in Nusa Dua on Indonesia's resort island of Bali Friday, July 8, 2022. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

G20 foreign ministers struggle to find unity on Ukraine

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Defence Ministry Press Office on Thursday, July 7, 2022, Ukrainian soldiers install the state flag on Snake island, in the Black Sea. The Ukrainian military returned the flag of Ukraine to island, which had been

Russia taking 'operational pause' in Ukraine, say analysts

Ukrainian serviceman looks on National Pedagogic university destroyed by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Inflation has pushed 71 million people into poverty since Ukraine war - report

Ukrainian servicemen take their position near the frontline in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, July, 5, 2022. The writing on the T-shirt reads

Seven killed in Ukraine as Russia pounds rebel-claimed province

Members of a pro-Kremlin youth organisation ride their cars with flags of Luhansk People Republic along Nevsky prospect, the central avenue of St. Petersburg as they celebrate announced by Russian authorities full control over Luhansk Region, one of the

High cost of Russian gains in Ukraine may limit new advance

What is the best way to improve voter turnout at General Elections?

Letters: It's now vital that voting be made compulsory

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, July 2, 2022, a Russian Su-25 ground attack jet fires rockets on a mission at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia tries to press its offensive into Ukraine’s east

Boris Johnson pictured with Sir Keir Starmer. Should their parties and the LibDems engage more over Indyref2?

Letters: The unionist parties must do their bit to break the deadlock

Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian positions in Donetsk (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Foreign Office condemns exploitation as Britons charged with being mercenaries by Russia

Russian missiles kill at least 21 in Ukraine’s Odesa region

Russian missiles kill at least 21 in Ukraine’s Odesa region

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed his gratitude for Boris Johnson's positioning of the UK regarding Ukraine and Nato

Letters: Guess which way Zelenskyy would vote in Indyref2?

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, first responders try to extinguish flames at a residential building in Odesa, Ukraine, early Friday, July 1, 2022, following Russian missile attacks. Ukrainian authorities said Russian missile

'At least 19 dead in Russian missile attack on residential building near Odesa'

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a closer view of barge, serna class landing craft and sunken serna craft near Snake Island in the Black Sea Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Satellite image Â©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP).

Russian forces leave Snake Island but keep up assault in eastern Ukraine

People lay floral tributes to the victims of the Russian rocket attack at a shopping center in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Search ongoing for 20 missing after Russian strike on Ukraine shopping centre

FILE - People look on from the super yacht Amadea as it arrives to the San Diego Bay Monday, June 27, 2022, seen from Coronado, Calif. The $325 million superyacht seized by the United States from a sanctioned Russian oligarch arrived in San Diego Bay on

£25bn from Russian oligarchs frozen in multinational seizure effort

Canon Peter McBride of St Peter's Catholic Church in Glasgow is ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees to the church house Pictures: Colin Mearns

PREMIUM 'We don't think the same way as Westminster' says Glasgow priest who has opened his home to refugees

TOPSHOT - Ivan Sosnin, 19, walks next to his destroyed house in the city of Lysychansk at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 7, 2022. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images).

Russian army expands grip on Eastern Ukraine in move to cut supply lines

John Miskelly and Emma Dryburgh are ready to fly to the country to help with the grim task of uncovering corpses

Dog search team steps up training ahead of Ukraine deployment to find bodies

A woman walks past a building destroyed in Russian shelling in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko).

Ukrainian journalist and soldier 'coldly executed', press group says

Scottish Government Ukrainian refugees minister Neil Gray

SNP minister admits Ukrainian refugees sheltered in hotels for 'too long'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Africa 'taken hostage' by Russia's invasion, Zelenskyy says

A couple walk past a building destroyed by attacks in Chernihiv, Ukraine (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

‘It’s just hell there’: Russia intensifies pounding of eastern Ukraine

Children stand in front of a building destroyed by attacks in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko).

'It's just hell there': Russia intensifies pounding of Eastern Ukraine

The superyacht Amadea is moored in Honolulu on Thursday, June 16, 2022. The Russian-owned superyacht seized by the United States arrived in Honolulu Harbor flying an American flag after the U.S. last week won a legal battle in Fiji to take the $325

Ukraine says it has struck Russian boat in Black Sea

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, center, chairs a meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 17, 2022. Ukraine's request to join the European Union may advance Friday with a recommendation

European Commission recommends EU candidate status for Ukraine

Ukraine consul general Yevhen Mankovskyi raised issues faced by families arriving in Scotland.

Childcare poses 'big problem' for Ukrainian families who fled to Scotland

From left, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis pose for a picture at the Mariyinsky Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine,

European leaders denounce brutality of Russian invasion during visit to Kyiv

Workers pour molten steel into a mold at a foundry at the mechanical casting plant in Berdyansk in the Zaporizhzhia region in an area under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The Zaporizhzhia region has been under

Russia targets ammunitions depot in western Ukraine

A man examines the roof of a hospital damaged during shelling in Donetsk, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. (AP Photo).

Russians control 80% of contested city in eastern Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he visits the war-hit Kharkiv region (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) on May 29, 2022.

'Shocking' widespread use of cluster munitions in Kharkiv, Amnesty reveals

Jordan Gatley served as a rifleman with the Edinburgh-based third battalion of The Rifles

'A true hero': Tributes paid to former Scots soldier killed in Ukraine

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Police and members of an extraction crew stand near a body found in the woods during an exhumation at a mass grave near Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko).

Battle of Donbas could prove decisive in Ukraine war

Lord Harrington has warned over problems with the Ukrainian super sponsor scheme

PREMIUM UK minister warns SNP's sponsor scheme leaving Ukrainian refugees 'stuck in hotels'

Liz Truss has called it a “sham judgement” and insisted it has “absolutely no legitimacy”

Liz Truss to discuss Britons’ death sentences with Ukraine counterpart

Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were detained in April while fighting in Ukraine.

‘Death sentence by pro-Russian court’ for British fighters condemned by Truss

An Ukrainian injured serviceman and an injured civilian wait for medical treatment in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue).

Russia draws closer to capturing Ukraine's Donbas region

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on economic issues via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia deploys more troops and claims progress in east Ukraine

Nastasia Vladimirovna shows part of her house destroyed by attacks beside her husband Syvak Andrey Vladimirovich in Mostyshche, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, June 6, 2022. Vladimirovna lived there with 18 members of her family but now she is

Moscow ambassador walks out of UN after EU blames Russia for food crisis

A woman sits on a destroyed Russian tank placed as a symbol of war in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko).

Vladimir Putin warns Ukraine over western weapons as strikes hit Kyiv

A woman runs from a house that’s on fire after shelling in Donetsk, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People’s Republic control, eastern Ukraine (Alexei Alexandrov/AP)

Russia consolidates gains in territory seized from Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine war in numbers as conflict reaches 100th day

Russia-Ukraine war in numbers as conflict reaches 100th day

Ukrainian service men kneel during the a funeral service for Army Col. Oleksander Makhachek in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Friday, June 3, 2022. According to combat comrades Makhachek was killed fighting Russian forces when a shell landed in his position on May

Russia may be in Ukraine to stay after 100 days of war

A Ukraine fan holds an anti-war sign at Wednesday's FIFA World Cup 2022 Qualifier play-off semi-final match at Hampden Park, Glasgow. PA/Andrew Milligan

Ukrainian refugees get 'warm Scots welcome' as war reaches grim milestone

Residents carry water in front of an apartment building damaged in an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco).

Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

A volunteer helps a man leaving his home in a building damaged by an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco).

Battle of Sievierodonetsk rages in Ukraine as Russia is blamed for food crisis