Close to 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in the fighting since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in late February, Ukrainian army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyy said. This is the first time Ukraine has publicly disclosed its military losses since the war began. NBC has not i...
Ukraine's National Guard reported that at least 500 of its members were killed since Russia's invasion more than two months ago. It's the first time the military force has announced its death toll since the war started. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a security declaration wi...
Ukraine files war crimes charges against Russian soldiers Ukraine reportedly filed its first war crimes charges, accusing 10 Russian troops of taking hostages and torturing civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. The charges were announced by Ukraine's Office of the Attorney General in a post on...
Ukraine war: Inside the bloody battle for Bakhmut In the eerie post-apocalyptic cityscape, Ukrainian soldiers defend a shrinking circle of ruins ByAndrew E KramerThu Apr 13 2023 - 12:30 Pentagon leaks linked to young, racist gun enthusiast ...
Ukraine and Russia have also been preparing for war for some time, since 2014 when Ukrainians threw out Putin’s presidential puppet Viktor Yanukovych in the Revolution of Dignity. Following that, an enraged Putin annexed Crimea and sent Russian soldiers in olive drab uniforms without insignia into...
Russian soldiers murdered hundreds of civilians during their monthlong occupation of the city.(more) 2 of 2 Russia-Ukraine WarUrsula von der Leyen standing next to bodies that were exhumed from a mass grave in Bucha, Ukraine, April 8, 2022.(more) As the war entered its second month, it ...
Russiaformally annexedCrimeain March 2014, a move that was broadly criticized in the West as a gross violation of international law, and separatist activities spread into eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian security services initially were unable to resist the attacks, which were often conducted by soldiers be...
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In another sign of anti-war sentiments, wives of some soldiers recruited during a hasty and widely unpopular partial mobilization in fall 2022 demanded their discharge from service. But Putin has continued to project total control: Police arrested hundreds simply for laying flowers in tribute to Nav...
The report looked into the alleged Russian deportation of Ukrainian children since the start of the war in February 2022. Though the team of experts were not able to determine the exact number of children Russian forces deported, “the fact of a large-scale displacement of Ukrainian children ...