Just this Thursday (10 March, 2022), the Philippine Ambassador to the United States (US), Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez, in an online forum, told journalists that Philippine President Duterte is willing to open facilities to the US if the Ukraine-Russia crisis spills over to Asia.Romualdez further said that the Philippines has a Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the US, which binds the two allies to come to each other’s aid from aggression and help defend the other party.“And our choice is

Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had met face-to-face in Beijing, culminating in a joint document – and then they went off to see the opening of the Winter Olympic Games. Days after the Games ended, Russia invaded Ukraine.China's government has neither condemned nor condoned the attack and has even refrained from calling it an "invasion" in the first place.

Here are the latest developments in Russia's war in Ukraine:Ceasefire Collapses Russia resumes its offensive against the besieged south-eastern city of Mariupol hours after agreeing to a ceasefire to allow residents trapped by the fighting to leave which Ukraine says it violated.Officials in Mariupol had announced plans for a large-scale evacuation during the ceasefire but later said they had to postpone the operation in the face of continued Russian shelling.Russia accused Ukra

Ukraine accused the Kremlin of "nuclear terror" and the West expressed fury on Friday after Europe's largest atomic power plant was attacked and seized by invading Russian forces, which continued to shell major cities.Fighting and a fire at the Zaporizhzhia plant triggered an emergency United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting, after which President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was ready for talks – if all Russia's demands were first met.The six reactors at Zaporizhzhia,

Here are the latest developments in Russia's attack on Ukraine:11 Killed In Kharkiv At least 11 civilians are killed in ongoing shelling of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv in the east of the country.More Talks Planned Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia will return to their capital cities for consultations and have plans for fresh talks, both sides announce after a first meeting since war broke out.Russia Defends War Russia defends its decision to invade Ukr

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, unleashing air strikes and ordering ground troops across the border in fighting that Ukrainian authorities said left dozens of people dead.The attack triggered Western warnings of unprecedented sanctions against Russia as NATO, European Union (EU) and G7 leaders condemned the invasion and vowed to hold Moscow accountable.Weeks of intense diplomacy failed to deter Putin, who massed over 150,000 troops on Uk

This week, Russia officially recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

Putin has sent soldiers on a ‘peacekeeping mission’ but is likely to threaten Ukraine with a broader war.What Has Vladimir Putin Ordered?The Russian president has recognised the independence of two Russian-controlled territories in east Ukraine. They call themselves the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. The territories have been armed, financed and politically controlled by Russia since 2014.

The current military standoff in Ukraine somewhat mirrors one of the most frightening and nerve-wracking episodes of the Cold War, and that’s the “Cuban Missile Crisis” where leaders of the United States (US) and the Soviet Union was engaged in a tense and stressful 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba just 90 miles from US shores. The US then was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize

United States (US) president Joe Biden has warned that “things could go crazy quickly” in Ukraine and again urged American citizens to leave immediately, as the United Kingdom’s (UK) defence secretary headed to Moscow in the latest round of diplomacy.“American citizens should leave, should leave now,” Biden said in an interview with NBC News. “We’re dealing with one of the largest armies in the world.