KYIV, Ukraine — Rocket attacks on Ukraine’s central Poltava region on Thursday were “perhaps the most intense for the duration of the war,” the regional governor said that same day. “Today’s shelling of the Poltava region is perhaps the largest during the course of this full-scale war...
Rights groups say that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime. The Kremlin has argued that its strikes are in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian facilities like its Crimean bridge, which was damaged in an explosion on Oct. 8. Russia has been attacking Ukraine since Fe...
The U.S. warned on Wednesday that Russia may use false claims about the conflict in eastern Ukraine as a pretext for invasion. Around 13,000 people have died in a war that has been raging for eight years between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern region o...
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...
The Institute for the Study of War has noted Russian offensive operations and some territorial gain near Kupiansk, Toretsk and Pokrovsk. It says Ukrainian forces recently regained lost positions in the western Zaporizhzia region. The next map shows some of Russia's advances in the Kursk regi...
Tension between Russia and its western neighbor, Ukraine, erupted into war in late February 2022, when Russian leader Vladimir Putin launched what Ukrainian officials calleda "full-scale invasion." For weeks, even as Moscow insisted it hadno plansfor an invasion, it had beenmovingtroops and weap...
—Karen Gilchrist Mon, Feb 13 20232:51 AM EST Read CNBC’s previous live coverage here: Ukraine war live updates: Russia launches new missile strikes; Moldova's government collapses — Karen Gilchrist
Ukraine, which has sought NATO membership since 2002, is bordered by four NATO allies; Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Poland currently hosts the majority of the troops from the 30-member alliance and has thus far taken the lion's share of refugees fleeing Putin's war. ...
This map also shows some of Russia's advances in the Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an offensive in August. 12:11:01 Analysis: Kirillov killing has brought Ukraine war very close to home for Moscow The assassination of Igor Kirillov this morning will likely prompt a swift r...
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