NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a  video message uploaded on Telegram Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke directly to Russian soldiers invading his country, calling on them to surrender and be treated “with dignity”. Zelensky’s address was featured on the Ukrainian national site Ukrinform: Free people of a free country! The 19th day of our […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — It was Wednesday midnight when the first United Hatzalah Humanitarian Relief Mission finished their shift at the Ukrainian-Moldava border crossing. They were all looking forward to returning to their home base, the Agudas Yisrael Synagogue in Kishinev. Little to their knowledge, their night was far from over. The expected three-and-a-half-hour ride was […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Russia continues its heavy shelling of Ukrainian cities on the 18th day of its onslaught in Ukraine. A 9-storey building in Kyiv was hit by a shell, causing a fire to break out. One person was killed and 3 more injured. Seven buildings in the city of Zhitomir were also hit […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: A 3-year-old chareidi girl has died after a fire broke out Monday morning in a Petah Tikva residential building. Police have opened an enquiry into the blaze. At 8:36 on Monday morning a report was received about a fire in a building in Ichilov street. MDA and United Hatzalah medics treated […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A prominent opposition leader in Russia says that Vladimir Putin will “destroy the world” if left unchecked, adding that global leaders should prepare for Russia to deploy nuclear weapons in the current war. Leonid Volkov, former chief of staff of jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny, issued a chilling warning about Putin’s plans […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite vehement denials from Belz leaders, the chasidic group, which is the second largest in Israel, has apparently agreed to include core curriculum studies in its schools as previously reported, according to a report by Actualic The Israeli ministry of education authorized the special framework of study for the Belz institutions which […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — Each year on Purim, in both Israel and America, an unfortunate phenomenon takes place–Charedi teens and pre-teens try out smoking for the first time, and sadly, some become hooked for life. Now the Israeli Health Ministry is launching a campaign to persuade kids not to take even a single puff. In some […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Bogdan Chmelnitzki enlisted in the IDF. No, this is not a Purim joke, Bogdan Chmelnitzki did indeed join the IDF in the 1990’s. A Ukrainian immigrant to Israel during the mass immigration of the early 90’s, Chmelnitzki presented himself at the IDF recruiting center, wearing a cross on his chest. Apparently Chmelnitzki […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An elderly Ukrainian couple stood up to Russian soldiers who had trespassed onto their property and shooed them away, earning praise from various sources including the US embassy in Kyiv. The viral images of the couple remonstrating with the armed soldiers and pushing them away from their property were caught on […]

NEW YORK(AP) — As many as 12 missiles struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Sunday, in what a U.S. defense official and an Iraqi official said was a strike launched from neighboring Iran. No injuries were reported in the attack, which marked a significant escalation between […]