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Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine is marking its second Independence Day since Russia’s full-scale invasion. Officials are vowing to keep up their fight to drive out the Kremlin’s forces, and local people have been remembering their fallen loved ones.
The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought -- sometimes bitterly – over abortion rights, U.S. support for Ukraine and the future of the party during the first primary debate of the 2024 campaign.
Officials say that Russia and Ukraine have traded nighttime drone attacks again. They say Kyiv targeted Moscow and the Kremlin’s forces launched another bombardment of Ukrainian grain storage depots early Wednesday.
Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has been meeting with leaders of Balkan nations and the head of the European Commission on the sidelines of a meeting between European and Balkan leaders in the Greek capital, Athens.
Ukraine media are reporting that a pair of recent drone attacks on air bases deep inside Russia that hit parked bomber aircraft were the work of Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv’s military intelligence services.
Life in the capital of war-torn Ukraine seems normal on the surface. But the details tell another story.
A global aid official is urging the international community to provide more funds to help Sudanese people trapped in a monthslong fighting between rival generals in the African nation.
The leaders of Denmark and the Netherlands say they will donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who visited both countries on Sunday, called the move an important motivation for his country’s forces, who are embroiled in a difficult counteroffensive against Rus
A Russian missile strike killed seven people and wounded 129 others on Saturday in the city center of Chernihiv, the regional capital of the northern province of the same name, the acting mayor said.
Officials say the United States has given its approval for the Netherlands and Denmark to deliver F-16s to Ukraine.
An organization in Ukraine is helping former soldiers who lost their vision in combat against Russia to reclaim a sense of autonomy.
Switzerland’s government has lined up with the European Union’s 11th round of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine.
Officials say Russia has resumed its targeting of grain infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, using drones in overnight strikes on storage facilities and ports along the Danube River.
The Russian ruble has fallen a long way in recent months, and the country’s central bank is stepping in to halt the slide.
NATO member Poland displayed its state-of-the-art weapons and defense systems at a massive military parade as war rages in neighboring Ukraine and ahead of parliamentary elections in two months.
Poland is deploying thousands of troops to its border with pro-Russian Belarus, calling it a deterrent move as tensions between the neighbors ratchet up.
Russian forces have unleashed a barrage of missiles on regions across Ukraine, killing civilians and damaging infrastructure.
Russia pulled out of a wartime agreement last month allowing Ukraine to ship grain to the world. With that and intensifying fighting in the Black Sea, Ukraine’s farmers are left wondering how they will stay in business.
Officials say Russia launched three waves of drones and missiles against the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa.
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu is visiting Russia and Belarus in a show of support for nations the West has sought to isolate over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has again toured munitions factories and has ordered a drastic increase in production of missiles and other weapons.
Russia thwarted an attack by 20 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
A small number of Russian Orthodox priests are publicly opposing their leader’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and they’re suffering the consequences.
The Pochaina neighborhood in the Ukrainian capital comes alive every weekend as hundreds of people flock to its famous flea market, looking for finds.
The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions against four Russians on the board of Alfa Group.
Ukrainian officials say Russia fired missiles at western Ukraine that killed an 8-year-old boy. The child died on Friday in a region of Ukraine located some 100 kilometers, about 60 miles, from the Polish border.
Six Western nations marked the 15th anniversary of Russia’s takeover of 20% of Georgia’s territory by demanding that Moscow return the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions.
The Biden administration is asking Congress to provide more than $13 billion in emergency defense aid to Ukraine and an additional $8 billion for humanitarian support through the end of the year.
Russian soccer club Dynamo Moscow says Norwegian midfielder Mathias Normann has terminated his contract with the team and left Russia after a drone strike on buildings near the neighborhood where he lived.
Ukrainian authorities have ordered a mandatory evacuation of nearly 12,000 civilians from 37 towns and villages in the Kupiansk district of Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region.