What s happening in Ukraine on Wednesday: The mayor of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol says more than 5,000 civilians have been killed during the monthlong Russian blockade, among them 210 children.
The golden beaches of Cyprus may seem a long way from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but many on the eastern Mediterranean holiday island fear damaging financial fallout from unprecedented sanctions on Moscow.Nicosia and Moscow have close political and cultural ties, but a day after Russia sent troops into Ukraine, the Cypriot parliament unanimously passed a resolution condemning the invasion, while President Nicos Anastasiades said the island stood "together with all Europeans".
RIYADH: The foreign minister of Cyprus has said in an exclusive interview with Arab News that his government’s position is aligned with fellow EU members in supporting the territorial integrity of Ukraine and all countries in the world. As a country that has a problem with a part of its own territory occupied, Cyprus could not be expected to have a different stance, Ioannis
NICOSIA - It hasn't worked for decades, but Cyprus' legitimate government, a member of the European Union, is moving away from demanding sanctions on the occupied Turkish-Cypriot side toward so-called Confidence Building Measures.
Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said that was done as confront