The Update with Brandon Julien

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Russian forces pounded an eastern Ukrainian city and the two sides waged pitched street battles that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said could determine the fate of the critical Donbas region. Russia claimed that it struck a training facility far from the front lines. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Former President Donald Trump, his namesake son and his daughter Ivanka have ag...

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Ukrainian forces battling Russian troops in a key eastern city appearing on the cusp of retreat. But the regional governor insists that they are still fighting "for every centimeter" of the city. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, the two democrats challenging Governor Hochul's big to keep her job criticized her past backing from the NRA, and the deal she reached to spend hundreds o...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Russia claims it has occupied large swaths if eastern Ukraine after a relentless, weeks long barrage and the recent deployment of more troops. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Moscow's forces have control of 97% of the Luhansk region. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, New Yorkers under the age of 21 will be prohibited from buying semi-automatic profiles under a new law sign...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, Russia has taken aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine by launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad. Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of longer-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit "objects that we haven't yet struck." 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, a number of factors, including warming ocean temperatures, are con...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On #TheUpdate this Friday, when Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in late February, he vowed that his forces wouldn't occupy the neighboring country. But as the invasion reaches day 100, Russia seems increasingly unlikely to relinquish the territory it's taken in the war. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, before they got out of town for summer break, the New York legislature has bites to ban a...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Britain says it is sending sophisticated medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine. The pledge came a day after the United States and Germany said they would equip the embattled nation with advanced weapons for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery. 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Payton Gendron, accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo supermark...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, western nations are promising more and more advanced arms to bolster Ukraine's defense as its troops battled a grinding Russian offensive that was closing in on capturing a key city in the east. Germany says it will supply Ukraine with modern anti-aircraft missiles and radar systems. 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons does e...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, in the most significant effort yet to punish Russia for the war in Ukraine, the European Union agreed to ban the overwhelming majority of Russian oil imports. The move came after tense negotiations that tested how far the bloc is willing to go to ostracize Moscow. 🇪🇺🛢️🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, the NYPD has a real whodunit on their hands. Someone busted into the altar at St. Augusti...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On the season finale of #TheUpdate this Friday, two days after Irma Garcia, a teacher who was killed in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, died, her grieving husband collapsed and died at home from a heaet attack. Joe Garcia was 50 years old. 👩🏽‍🏫 In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, Turkey's foreign minister says that Sweden and Finland must now take "concrete steps" to alleviate his coun...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Javier Cazares, the father of fourth-grader Jacklyn Cazares, one of 19 youngsters who died at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, says that police were slow to move in and we're unprepared. 👮🏽‍♂️ In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated his conviction that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't win the war. 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally,...

We truly have a lot to cover on #TheUpdate this Wednesday. In Texas, authorities are providing more details about the gunman's movements and the police response to the killings of 19 children and two adults at that elementary school. 🏫👮🏽‍♂️ In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has issued an order to allow a fast track to Russian citizenship for people in two southern...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that Russia can be reintegrated into the orbit of European nations if it finds its way back to "democracy, the rule of law, the respect for the international rules-based order." Von der Leyen spoke at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, 18-year-old Omar Bojang has been arrested in connectio...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, a Ukrainian court has sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for killing a Ukrainian civilian. It's the first conviction for war crimes since the war began three months ago. 👨🏽‍⚖️🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, there's been more senseless gun violence on the streets of the City of New York- particularly in the subway system recently. An unidentified gunman shot and ki...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On #TheUpdate this Friday, Ukrainian authorities say that their troops repelled a Russian attack in the east, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in the region that is now the focus of the war even as it intensified its campaign there. Battered by their monthslong siege of the vital port city of Mariupol, Russian troops need time to regroup. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, the screaming people. Car tires screeching....

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, the Portuguese government says that Russia is expelling five diplomats from its Moscow embassy, a day after the Kremlin also expelled diplomats from Spain, France, and Italy. The Portuguese Foreign Ministry said today that Russia's decision was "unjustified" and merely a tit-for-tat step after Portugal last month expelled Russian diplomates at the Lisbon embassy. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the Kremlin says that the Ukrainian soldiers at the giant steel mill in the port of Mariupol are surrendering. The Russian Defense Ministry says that 959 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered since Monday. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally in Buffalo, classmates and neighbors of Payton Gendron say that they never saw the violent and angry side that allegedly fueled his racist massacre over t...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the leader of a Turkish nationalist party that's allied with President Tayyip Erdogan is expressing concern that NATO's expansion to include Sweden and Finland will provoke Russia and cause an expansion of the war in Ukraine. Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Action Party, told his party's lawmakers that the most "logical" option would be for the two countri...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, Ukrainian border guards say they repelled a Russian attempt to send troops into the northern Sumy region, which is outside the current focus of fighting. The border guard service said that Russian forces deployed mortars, grenade launchers and machine guns in an attempt to cover a "sabotage and reconnaissance group" crossing the border from Russia. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally in Buffal...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!