This was CNBC's live blog tracking developments on the war in Ukraine. See below for the latest updates. Russian officials said Ukraine attacked the Russian city of Belgorod overnight, as well as the port city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, as a series of retaliatory strikes by Ru...
Ukrainian forces destroyed the Russian Navy’s Tsezar Kunikov large landing ship off the occupied peninsula of Crimea in the Black Sea on Wednesday, Kyiv’s military said. A Ukrainian news outlet published several videos showing a column of smoke rising over the sea off the southern coast of ...
He says the meeting comes after Mr Zelenskyy "effectively admitted for the first time he would not be able to take back the territory that has been seized - that is effectively Donbas and Crimea" (see 17.31pm post). "He's p...
The Russia-Ukraine War began in February 2014 with the covert invasion of the Ukrainian autonomous republic of Crimea by disguised Russian troops. The conflict expanded in April 2014 when Russians and local proxy forces seized territory in Ukraine’s Don
The Ukraine crisis of 2013-14 encompassed months of popular protests in Ukraine, the replacement of President Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western interim government, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and war in the Donbas. It proved to be the opening ac
The Institute for the Study of War said that Russian forces advanced at a rate of roughly 27.96 square kilometres per day in November, but that has dropped to 17.1 square kilometres per day this month. This map also shows some of Russia's advances in the Kursk region, w...
has remained largely static with neither side making significant gains, Ukrainian forces have launchedbold missile and drone attacksdeep behind the line of contact, raising the costs for the Kremlin and challenging Putin’s attempts to pretend that life in Russia is largely unaffected by the war. ...
The unit also said it shot down 13 Iranian-make “Shahed” drones launched by Russian forces from Cape Chauda in occupied Crimea. All of the drones were shot down over the Zaporizhzhia, Odesaand Dnipropetrovsk regions, the Ukrainian air force said. ...
Russia went on to invade Crimea in 2014. The Russian leader also claimed Russia was ready for “dialogue” with Ukraine and the West over how to end the war, and for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia for almost a year while awa...
Trump has pledged to end the war in Ukraine and it's believed he will push for a negotiated settlement between the two sides - which some believe may result in a poor deal for Kyiv. US intelligence suggests Russia 'misidentified plane as drone' - report ...