“Today’s shelling of the Poltava region is perhaps the largest during the course of this full-scale war,” Dmitry Lunin wrote in a Telegram post. “12 Russian missiles hit the infrastructure in (the city of) Kremenchuk; most of them hit an oil refinery that was not operational anyway.”...
Russia-Ukraine War Table of Contents Introduction & Top Questions The toppling of the Yanukovych government and the invasion of Crimea The war in the Donbas The Russian invasion of Ukraine International support for Ukraine The Ukrainian counterattack The war in 2023 and 2024 Costs and casualties: ...
Russian authorities have repeatedly decried reports of Russian military setbacks or civilian deaths in Ukraine as "fake" news. State media outlets refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a "special military operation" rather than a "war" or an "invasion." Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of t...
Berlusconi, whose party backs Meloni's right-wing coalition government, is a long-time friend and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said the war in Ukraine "would have never happened" had President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "ceased attacking the two autonomous republics of Donbass" —...
Away from the negotiations over an end to the war in Ukraine - tributes are being paid to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny one year on from his death. Flowers and messages have been laid at his grave in Moscow, with people forming a long queue to take their turn to pay their...
The Monitor is a dedicated platform for near real-time information on the war, including an interactive map of the latest data from the start of the invasion onward, a curated data file, and weekly situation updates.
We'll be back soon with more updates on the war in Ukraine. Before we go, here is a rundown of what has been happening over the last 24 hours: Police in Norway have seized a Norwegian ship with an all-Russian crew, who they are interviewing over damage to fibre optic cable in the...
today there are only about 34 million people still living in the country due to the Russia-Ukraine war. Of these about 78% are Ukrainians and about 17% consider themselves Russians. The official language is Ukrainian, however, almost all people in Ukraine speak Russian too, as the country ...
Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to lose more territory to Russian forces in the east, as this map (courtesy of the NYT) shows. In a war that’s now lasted more than two and a half years, we’ve been told repeatedly thatnew “magical” weaponswill make all the difference for Ukraine, wheth...
Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census) Religions: Ukrainian Orthodox - Kiev Patriarchate 19%, Orthodox (no particular jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian...