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...
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament approved a state budget for next year on Thursday, aiming to strengthen its army and defences as Kyiv battles Russia in a 20-month-old war that has no end in sight. Budget revenues are set at 1.77 trillion hryvnias ($48.4 billion) while spe...
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...
artificial famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 to 8 million more deaths. Although final independence for Ukraine was achieved in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy remained elusive ...
Welcome back to our coverage of the war in Ukraine. Before we bring you the latest, here is an overview of what has been happening: Donald Trump said he would talk to Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy about bringing the war in Ukraine to an end. Trump also said it would...
The Institute for the Study of War thinktank also noted unverified reports suggesting a contingent of Russian and North Korean troops had lost 200 soldiers after a Ukrainian drone swarm at the weekend. Troops from the country have joined Russian ...
3:09 a.m. 17:00:24, August 15, 2024 Ukraine says it's in touch with Russia about POWs From CNN's Maria Kostenko Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets says he is in contact with his Russian counterpart about prisoners of war captured over the last week. ...
5:26 p.m. 13:40:41, May 14, 2024 Analysis: The rest of the world wants the Ukraine war to go away. Putin has other ideas From CNN's Nick Paton Walsh The changing language used by the Ukrainian military in 72 hours of daily updates tells the story: “Ongoing defensive fighting....
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