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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Jim Heintz

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking on a visit to his campaign headquarters after a presidential election in Moscow, Russia, early Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
March 18, 2024, 4:18 am
Putin basks in electoral victory that was never in doubt, even amid some protest
Longtime Russian president easily secures fifth term, facing only token challengers and harshly suppressed opposition voices
By Emma Burrows, Dasha Litvinova and Jim Heintz
In this Sunday, February 24, 2019, file photo, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin, File)
February 16, 2024, 2:12 pm
Russia’s prison service says imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died
Fierce Putin critic had been behind bars since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin
By Jim Heintz
Representatives from over 40 countries posing for a photo during talks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, August 6, 2023. (Handout from the Saudi Press Agency)
August 7, 2023, 9:12 pm
Russia slams diplomats’ summit in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending Ukraine war
Moscow says meeting in Jeddah with officials from over 40 countries is meaningless without Russian representatives
By HANNA ARHIROVA and Jim Heintz
People stand by the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev inside the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions during a farewell ceremony in Moscow, Russia, September 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
September 3, 2022, 1:06 pm
Russians pay last respects to Gorbachev at funeral snubbed by Putin
Hundreds say farewell to the Soviet Union’s last leader at Moscow ceremony that the Kremlin refused to declare a state funeral
By Jim Heintz and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Mikhail Gorbachev, eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, closes his resignation speech on the table after delivering it on Soviet television in the Kremlin, Moscow, Wednesday, December 25, 1991. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)
August 30, 2022, 11:46 pm
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, dies at 91
Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was in power between 1985 and 1991, helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze, remembered fondly in the West
By Jim Heintz
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks at a press conference about the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in Vienna, Austria, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)
March 4, 2022, 1:06 pm
No radiation leak at Ukraine nuclear plant after Russian attack starts fire, kills 3
Russian forces now in control of Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, but Ukrainian staff still overseeing its operations; shelling caused fire at training center at site
By Jim Heintz, YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
A still from a video showing a building on fire at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine on March 2, 2022. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 4, 2022, 5:20 am
Russian shelling sets Ukrainian nuclear plant ablaze, raising fears of disaster
Officials say radiation levels normal, but plant spokesman warns accident can happen at any moment, with firefighters unable to reach flames
By Jim Heintz, YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on February 1, 2022. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)
February 28, 2022, 5:04 pm
Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet as Putin continues to flex nuclear muscles
Russian delegation led by Putin’s culture adviser; Ukraine expected to demand ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops in first face-to-face talks since war began
By YURAS KARMANAU, Jim Heintz, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Dasha Litvinova
A woman carries her child as she arrives at the Medyka border crossing after fleeing from Ukraine, in Poland, February 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
February 28, 2022, 4:21 pm
Outgunned and under nuclear threat, determined Ukrainians hold out
Kyiv still under Zelensky government’s control, as US, EU defense officials consider best methods of providing Ukraine with weapons
By YURAS KARMANAU, Jim Heintz, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Dasha Litvinova
This photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground in Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
February 27, 2022, 5:22 pm
Putin puts Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert, citing Western threats
Russian leader says move a response to ‘aggressive statements’ by NATO member countries; UK foreign secretary says world must prepare ‘for Russia to seek to use even worse weapons’
By YURAS KARMANAU, Jim Heintz and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Employees stand inside the New Safe Confinement (NSC) new metal dome designed and built by French consortium Novarka encasing the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl plant on July 10, 2019, in Chernobyl. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
February 25, 2022, 2:04 am
Still leaking radioactivity, Chernobyl back in Russian hands 36 years after disaster
‘It is impossible to say Chernobyl nuclear power plant is safe,’ says adviser to Ukraine president; 2nd official claims radiation levels rose after shelling hit a waste repository
By Jim Heintz
A woman walks by a large print at a photographic memorial for those killed in the confrontation between Ukraine's military and the pro-Russia separatist forces in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 23, 2022. (Vadim Ghirda/AP)
February 24, 2022, 7:49 am
Russia-Ukraine: What to know as Moscow launches major attack
As Putin begins invasion with assault on Ukrainian cities, he warns world to not interfere; US, NATO vow response, expected to come in form of sanctions
By Jim Heintz, Raf Casert and Ellen Knickmeyer
A Ukrainian serviceman stands at his position at the line of separation between Ukraine-held territory and rebel-held territory near Svitlodarsk, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 23, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)
February 24, 2022, 12:18 am
Kremlin says Ukraine rebels asking for military help, opening door for invasion
Moscow claims separatists want Russian soldiers to repel ‘Ukrainian aggression,’ seen as possible pretext for incursion; Kyiv declares state of emergency
By Dasha Litvinova, YURAS KARMANAU and Jim Heintz
This combination of file photos shows Joe Biden (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Jim Watson and Grigory Dukor/Various Sources/AFP)
February 21, 2022, 4:44 am
Biden agrees ‘in principle’ to meet Putin, as long as Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine
White House warns Moscow moving closer to launching attack as France’s Macron brokers meeting between US, Russian leaders in last-ditch diplomatic gambit
By Lori Hinnant, Jim Heintz and Zeke Miller
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 19, 2022. (AP/Michael Probst)
February 19, 2022, 10:05 pm
‘What are you waiting for?’ Zelensky slams world’s ‘appeasement’; asks Putin to meet
‘We will protect our country with or without [outside] support,’ vows Ukrainian president, demanding ‘a shift from appeasement,’ as threat of Russian invasion grows
By Jim Heintz, Dasha Litvinova and Lori Hinnant
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