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...
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 previously said NATO membership would stop this war. Well, he'...
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
Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on. In this update, we look at what’s happened since the invasion began and explore the latest social and economic consequences.
After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukraine has seen a military conflict between the government and the Russia-supported separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. OHCHR estimates that between 14,200 and 14,400 people, including civilians and military personnel, were killed in relation to that con...
With supplemental assistance from the U.S., Burns said, Ukrainian forces "can hold their own on the battlefield in 2024 and continue to do damage with deeper strikes in Crimea...and against the Black Sea fleet." Burns added that "with the boost that would come from military ass...
Russia and its proxies in eastern Ukraine call the capture of the Luhansk region, which happened last weekend, a "liberation" although Russia is widely seen as using a rationale of "protecting" the breakaway separatist areas, which were founded in 2014 as Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, as...
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. ...