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Russia launches a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine's military says
Russia has launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv and possibly other cities.
Russia's deadly overnight barrage of missiles and drones hits over half of Ukraine
Russia battered much of Ukraine with scores of missiles and drones that officials say killed four people, injured more than a dozen, and damaged energy facilities.
Ukrainian high jumper keeps her eye on the raised bar, but her mind is fixed on the war
Ukrainian athletes training for the Paris Olympics are torn between their sports demand for complete concentration on the here and now, and the war back home that is never far from their minds.
Zelenskyy appeals to West to relax targeting limits for Ukraine as glide bombs hammer front line
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia dropped more than 800 glide bombs in Ukraine in the past week alone and appealed to Western countries to further relax targeting restrictions inside Russia.
Ukrainian drones and missiles kill 6 in Russia and Crimea, fresh bombing of Kharkiv leaves 1 dead
Russian authorities say six people died and over 150 were wounded in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks while the second day of Russia's aerial bombing of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine killed at least one person.
US will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system after Kyiv's desperate calls for air defenses
Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system.
US to send new $225 million military aid package to Ukraine, officials say.
Officials say the U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, in an new package that includes ammunition that Kyiv’s forces could use to strike threats inside Russia to defend the city of Kharkiv from a heavy Russian assault.
Energy shutdowns hit Ukraine after Russian attacks target infrastructure
Ukraine has imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure and claimed it made gains in the eastern Donetsk province.
Berlin lets Ukraine use German weapons against targets in Russia after the US also eases its stance
Germany has joined the United States in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying.
NATO ministers meet in Prague as allies ease restrictions on Ukraine's use of their weapons
NATO foreign ministers are meeting in the Czech capital to prepare for this summer’s leaders’ summit as the alliance boosts support for Ukraine and countries one-by-one remove restrictions on how Kyiv can use western-supplied weaponry to combat Russia’s invasion.
Biden partially lifts ban on Ukraine using US arms in strikes on Russian territory, US officials say
President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv.
Ukraine's army chief says Russia is augmenting its troops presence in the Kharkiv region
Ukraine’s air force says that Russia has conducted an array of aerial attacks on Ukraine with cruise missiles, drones and ballistic missiles.
The death toll in Kharkiv attack rises to 14 as Zelenskyy warns of Russian troop movements
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Russia is preparing to intensify its offensive along Ukraine’s northern border as the death toll rose to 14 in an aerial bomb attack on a large construction supplies store in the city of Kharkiv.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine has taken back control in areas of Kharkiv region, aerial attacks continue
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month.
Russia smashes train tracks in a battered Ukrainian border region where children are being evacuated
Officials say a nighttime Russian attack has destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
US will announce $275 million more in artillery and ammunition for Ukraine, officials say
Two U.S. officials say the Biden administration is expected to announce an additional $275 million in military aid for Ukraine on Friday.
Russian missiles kill 7 in Ukraine's second-largest city as Moscow's troops press offensive
Officials say that Russian missiles have slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the country and killed at least seven civilians.
Germany's foreign minister says in Kyiv that air defenses are an 'absolute priority' for Ukraine
Germany’s foreign minister says sending air defense systems to Ukraine to help protect it from Russian cruise missiles, rockets and drones is an “absolute priority.”.
At least 11 killed as Russia presses forward with its offensive in northeastern Ukraine
At least 11 people were reported killed in attacks in Ukraine’s war-ravaged northeast on Sunday, as Russia pushed ahead with its renewed offensive.
Putin says Russia wants a buffer zone in Ukraine's Kharkiv but has no plans to capture the city
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow’s offensive on Ukraine’s Kharkiv aims to create a buffer zone but that there are no plans to capture the city.
Ukraine says it has checked Russia's offensive in a key town, but Moscow says it will keep pushing
Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s forces in a northeastern Ukrainian town have halted the Russian advance.
Russian assault opens new front, diverting Ukraine forces as Western aid trickles in
Ukrainian officials and commanders say Russian troops are locked in intense battles with Ukrainian soldiers in the embattled town of Vovchansk and are pushing ahead with a ground offensive that opened a new front to put pressure on overstretched Ukrainian forces.
Russia says it has captured 5 villages in northeast Ukraine as more than 1,700 civilians flee
The Russian Defense Ministry says Moscow’s forces have captured five villages in a renewed ground assault in northeastern Ukraine.
Ukraine says Russia is trying to break through its defenses in the northeastern Kharkiv region
Ukraine has rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defenses.
Drone footage shows Ukrainian village battered to ruins as residents flee Russian advance
Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the devastation inflicted on the Ukranian village of Ocheretyne.
Ukraine's army chief reports tactical retreat in the east, and warns of front-line pressure
Ukraine’s army chief says his troops have been forced to retreat from three villages in the country's embattled east.
Ukraine thanks the US for billions in new military aid to help stop Russia's advance
Ukrainian officials are expressing thanks for $61 billion in new U.S. military aid, even though the supplies aren’t expected to have an immediate impact on the battlefield.
Biden will send Ukraine air defense weapons, artillery once Senate approves, Zelenskyy says
President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine.
Russia pummels exhausted Ukrainian forces with smaller attacks ahead of a springtime advance
Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces across the front line to prepare to grab more land this spring and summer.
Ukraine's foreign minister says Israel's response to an Iranian aerial attack shows what Kyiv needs
Ukraine’s foreign minister says the success of Israel and its allies in largely thwarting a massive Iranian missile and drone attack shows what Ukraine could achieve against Russian aerial barrages if it had more support from its partners.
A Russian attack on a Ukrainian village kills a 14-year-old girl and two others, officials say
Authorities say a Russian attack has hit a grocery store and a pharmacy in a Ukrainian village close to the border with Russia, killing three people.
Russian missile strikes in Ukraine kill 8 and wound 12
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight, and more strikes followed on Saturday afternoon, killing eight people and wounding 12 more.
A drone attack kills 4 people in Ukraine’s second-largest city as Russia builds its war strength
Authorities say a nighttime Russian attack using Iranian-designed drones has killed four people and wounded 12 in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Russia strikes Ukraine's Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022
Ukrainian officials say Russia has struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others.
With the election behind him, Putin says Russia aims to set up a buffer zone inside Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country won’t relent in its invasion of Ukraine and has announced plans for a buffer zone to protect against long-range Ukrainian strikes and cross-border raids.
Ukraine needs more than a billion dollars to rebuild its scientific infrastructure, UN agency says
The United Nations cultural and scientific agency says Ukraine will need more than a billion dollars to rebuild its scientific infrastructure that was damaged or destroyed during two years of Russia's war on its neighbor.
Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine's 2nd largest city, kills 7
The governor of the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv says a Russian drone strike on the city of the same name, the second-largest city in the country, killed seven people overnight, including three children.
Russian missiles strike Ukrainian cities again, killing at least 7 and wounding dozens
Russian missiles struck three Ukrainian cities, including its two biggest, damaging apartment buildings and killing at least seven people.
A Russian border city cancels Orthodox Epiphany events due to threats of Ukrainian attacks
A Russian city near the Ukrainian border canceled its traditional Orthodox Epiphany festivities on Friday due to the threat of attacks as Kyiv’s forces pursue a new strategy with the war approaching its two-year milestone.
Russian missiles hit Ukrainian apartment buildings in latest deadly strikes on civilian areas
Officials say Russia fired two missiles at Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine during the night, hitting apartment buildings and a medical center and injuring 17 people.
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine and is seeking Iranian missiles, US says
The White House says U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia has acquired ballistic missiles from North Korea and is seeking close-range ballistic missiles from Iran as Moscow struggles to replenish arms for its war with Ukraine.
Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities, killing 5 and injuring at least 130, Kyiv officials say
Officials in Ukraine say the country’s two largest cities were struck by Russian missiles that killed five people and wounded at least 130.
Russia launches fresh drone strikes in Ukraine after promising retaliation for Belgorod attack
Russia has launched a fresh drone assault on Ukraine after promising that strikes on the Russian border city of Belgorod that killed 24 people “would not go unpunished.”.
Russia steps up its aerial barrage of Ukraine as Kyiv officials brace for attacks on infrastructure
Ukrainian authorities say Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks across 10 of Ukraine’s 24 regions.
Fierce fighting persists in Ukraine’s east as Kyiv reports nonstop assaults by Russia on a key city
Ukrainian officials have reported intense combat as Russian forces relentlessly assault the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka.
The US sent cluster munitions to Ukraine but activists still seek to bolster a treaty banning them
Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for it after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.
German shepherd wounded in Ukraine gets new start as Hungarian police dog
A German shepherd wounded during a rocket attack in northeastern Ukraine is now training with the police department in Hungary's capital.
Staff at Ukraine's experimental nuclear site pick up pieces from Russian strikes
There is activity at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, but it’s not what scientists at this cutting-edge nuclear laboratory trained for.
No evidence of fraud in weapons to Ukraine, watchdog says
The Pentagon's inspector general says his office has found no evidence yet that any of the billions of dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine has been lost to corruption or diverted into the wrong hands.
Joy amid sorrow: 1st birthdays muted for Ukrainian parents
The anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women who gave birth and men who became fathers a year ago, on Feb. 24, 2022, as bombs began to fall.
For Ukrainian circus performers, future still up in the air
Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds.
5 Ukrainian civilians killed as warring sides mull next move
The Ukrainian presidential office says Russian shelling has killed at least five people and wounded 13 others over the past 24 hours, as the Kremlin’s and Kyiv’s forces remain locked in combat in eastern Ukraine.
UK to supply tanks; Russian missiles hit across Ukraine
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to provide tanks and artillery systems to Ukraine amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting multiple Ukrainian cities for the first time in nearly two weeks.
Russia hits key infrastructure with missiles across Ukraine
Russian missiles struck Ukraine in the biggest wave of strikes in weeks, hitting power stations and other critical infrastructure Thursday during freezing winter weather.
The peculiar Russian missile 'cemetery' in eastern Ukraine
The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar “cemetery,” one that recalls some of the worst damage done since the Russian invasion: the debris of rockets used against this town and its people.
As Russia strikes power plants, Ukrainians brace for winter
As temperatures drop below freezing in eastern Ukraine, those who haven’t already fled from the heavy fighting and months of Russian occupation are now facing a brutal winter.
Multiple explosions rock eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv
A series of explosions have rocked the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv, sending towering plumes of illuminated smoke in the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions.
Hundreds of kids from east Ukraine stranded in Russia camps
Hundreds of children from eastern Ukraine are stranded in Russian summer camps, on the wrong side of a front line that shifted after they were bused away for what was supposed to be holiday.
Sri Lankans describe abuse as Russian captives in Ukraine
Seven Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine say they were beaten and tortured for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian-born scientist in SA says Vladimir Putin had no ‘plan B’
Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s response to the retaking of much of the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv tells Dmytrio Kovalskyy, “He doesn’t have plan B and he absolutely miscalculated his chances to win.”
In Ukraine's retaken battlefields, soldiers recover bodies
Only now are Ukrainian soldiers able to retrieve the bodies of dead soldiers from a region near the Russian border that was the scene of fierce fighting for months over the summer.
After Russian occupation, traumatized Ukrainian city emerges
Izium, in far eastern Ukraine, was among the first cities taken by Russian forces after the war started on Feb. 24 and became a command center for the occupying forces.
Ukrainian flag raised in retaken city after Russian retreat
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a rare foray outside Ukraine's capital and highlighted Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukrainian troops keep up pressure on fleeing Russian forces
Ukrainian troops are piling pressure on retreating Russian forces, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of the counteroffensive that has inflicted a stunning blow on Moscow’s military prestige.
Ukraine reclaims more territory, reports capturing many POWs
Ukrainian troops expanded their territorial gains by pushing all the way back to the country’s northeastern border in places and claimed to have captured a record number of Russian soldiers.
Russia hits power stations after Ukraine counteroffensive
Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure, causing widespread outages across Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces pressed a swift counteroffensive that has driven Moscow’s troops out of swaths of territory it had occupied in the northeast.
Ukraine pushes big counteroffensive as war marks 200 days
As the war in Ukraine marks 200 days, the country has reclaimed broad swaths of the south and east in a long-anticipated counteroffensive, dealing a heavy blow to Russia.
Russia announces troop pullback from Ukraine's Kharkiv area
Russia’s Defense Ministry says it's pulling back forces from two areas in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made significant advances in the past week.
Ukraine claws back some territory; nuclear plant in peril
Ukrainian forces are claiming new success in their counteroffensive against Russian forces in the country’s east, taking control of a sizeable village and pushing toward an important transport junction.
Ukrainian military says it repelled more than dozen attacks
The Ukrainian military says it has repelled more than a dozen Russian attacks in the country’s east and north, including attempts to advance on key cities in the eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas.