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A senior local official in Russia says a Ukrainian attack on a town in Russia’s Kursk border region using U.S.-supplied missiles has killed six people, including a child.
President Vladimir Putin has boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the downfall of a key ally in Syria had dented Moscow’s prestige.
Ukraine’s Security Service has claimed responsibility for killing Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, in a bombing in Moscow.
Advertisements pasted along the sidewalk in Kyiv ask for donations to help fill financial gaps across Ukraine's military.
The Pentagon says Russia could launch its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again soon.
Donald Trump is pushing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to act to reach an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine.
The Ukrainian air force says Russia launched 188 drones against most regions of Ukraine in a nighttime blitz, describing it as a record number of drones deployed in a single attack.
The U.S. defense chief says the Biden administration will give Ukraine antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield advances.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a revamped version of his country's nuclear doctrine that lowers the bar on when he could use Moscow’s atomic arsenal.
Russia said Ukraine has fired U.S.-made longer-range weapons inside its territory days after the U.S. said it would allow Kyiv to use American-supplied systems to conduct strikes inside Russian territory.
After 1,000 days of war, a makeshift memorial has grown in the heart of Kyiv with thousands of blue-and-yellow flags honoring soldiers who died defending Ukraine.
Japan’s foreign minister has arrived in Kyiv to discuss North Korea’s deepening military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what appeared to be the first conversation with the sitting leader of a major Western power in nearly two years.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is determined in its final months to help Ukraine keep fighting its war with Russia next year.
A crowd of mourners lit torches and intoned a military chant to honor a Ukrainian medic and a soldier who fell in love while on the frontlines of the war and died together in a Russian shelling attack.
Dozens of Russian drones have targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in a nighttime attack that lasted eight hours.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield.
The Pentagon says it is sending an additional $425 million in military assistance to Ukraine as Kyiv prepares to face Russian forces augmented by more than 10,000 North Koreans troops.
A local official says Russian forces have thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion from Ukraine into southwestern Russia.
A Russian drone strike has killed a teenager in Kyiv during a nighttime barrage on the Ukrainian capital that lasted for hours.
Ukraine’s president is hoping allies will take a more positive stance on his so-called “victory plan” after the U.S. election, but concedes that its key demand — an invitation to join NATO — is not welcome by some Western partners, in particular Germany.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the United States will get Ukraine what it needs to fight its war with Russia.
Russia has returned to Ukraine the bodies of 501 soldiers in what appears to be the biggest repatriation of war dead since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, has expressed his support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan,” despite the tensions between the two that led to his dismissal in February.
Russia says it has captured the village of Levadne in southern Ukraine as it probes for weaknesses along the war’s roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line before winter arrives.
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman has urged international organizations to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia’s Kursk region where Kyiv had launched an incursion in August.
Ukraine’s military says it struck a major oil terminal in Crimea that provides fuel for Russia’s war effort.
An apparent Russian artillery strike has hit a market in the southern Ukraine city of Kherson, killing at least six people and wounding three others.
Two months after Russia bombed Ukraine's largest children's hospital, some of the young cancer patients who survived the strike are having their spirits bolstered by hospital clowns.
Ukraine has banned government officials, military personnel and other defense and critical infrastructure workers from installing the popular Telegram messaging app on state-issued devices.
Authorities in Ukraine have advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city.
The European Union is ready to lend Ukraine up to $39 billion as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations.
U.S. officials say the Biden administration still isn't convinced that it should give Ukraine the authority to launch long-range missiles deeper into Russia.
The head of NATO’s military committee says that Ukraine has the solid legal and military right to strike deep inside Russia to gain combat advantage, reflecting the beliefs of a number of U.S. allies.
Ukraine has made a new call on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia after a meeting between U.S. and British leaders produced no visible shift in their policy.
The World Health Organization has issued a stark warning about a potential health crisis in Ukraine as the country faces its third winter of war.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a three-nation, Ukraine-focused European tour in Poland after hearing repeated appeals from Ukrainian officials to use Western-supplied weaponry for long-range strikes inside Russia.
The United States and Britain have pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats.
Ukraine’s prime minister has warned that the country could be facing its toughest winter since the full-scale Russian invasion began, as airstrikes against the country’s beleaguered energy infrastructure intensify.
Ukraine's president has told U.S. and allied military leaders meeting in Germany that his country needs the ability to strike deep within Russia now.
Ukrainian officials say two Russian ballistic missiles blasted a military academy and nearby hospital in Ukraine, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 200 others.
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has described the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as “very fragile” following fresh attacks near the site in central Ukraine.
Russia has launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv and possibly other cities.
A British safety adviser working with a team of Reuters journalists was killed when a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged over 100 prisoners of war as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine’s military says it used high-precision glide bombs provided by the United States to carry out strikes in Russia’s Kursk region.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered his role “as a friend” to help bring peace to Ukraine in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukraine has ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Wednesday, opening the possibility of more prosecutions of Russian officials for war crimes.
Ukraine’s parliament has banned the activities of religious groups tied to the Russian Orthodox Church or any other faith group supporting Russia’s invasion.
For more than a week, Ukrainian troops have pushed into the Kursk region of Russia, just north of their border, in the most extensive incursion by Kyiv’s forces in the 2½-year-old war.
The Russian Defense Ministry says its forces have checked an effort by Kyiv’s troops to expand a stunning weeklong incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Ukraine’s Olympic fan clubhouse stands out for its somber atmosphere, with moments of silence for war victims and documentaries about the destruction.
Russia has declared a “federal-level” emergency in the Kursk region following a large-scale incursion from Ukraine and sent reinforcements there.
Ukrainian military officials say they have sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours.
Ukraine says it has struck an oil depot in southern Russia that supplies the Kremlin’s troops as Russian strikes in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where Moscow has claimed further gains, have left five civilians dead and 15 others wounded.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country needs 25 Patriot air defense systems to fully defend its airspace and protect the entire country from Russian missile attacks.
Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in four months has had severe consequences, paralyzing the operations of the country’s largest children’s hospital and severely affecting the young patients already battling life-threatening diseases.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rescue operations have stretched into a second day at a major Kyiv children’s hospital struck by a Russian missile.
Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine, damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on world powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue during a meeting with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Russian officials say a village in the western border region has been evacuated following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse.
Russian strikes have left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to the regional capital of Sumy.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has visited Moscow for a rare meeting by a European leader with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed peace proposals for Ukraine.
The president of the U.N. General Assembly says it will keep standing up for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty whatever the outcome of national elections across the globe this year, adding that no country has the right to invade another one.
Authorities say a Russian missile and drone attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has killed five civilians and injured 47 others.
Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has paid tribute to his country's soccer team as they ended their European Championship run with a 0-0 draw against Belgium.
Despite war-time restrictions, Ukrainians marked midsummer with festivals that feature frenetic folk dancing, flower decoration and jumping over bonfires.
Ukraine's president says at least three people have died in a Russian bombing attack on the second city of Kharkiv.
Ukraine is experiencing rolling blackouts as Russia intensified strikes targeting energy infrastructure over the past three months.
Russia has resumed its aerial attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil storage depots with drone strikes across the border.
Several hundred LGBTQ Ukrainian servicemen and their supporters have marched in central Kyiv to demand more rights and highlight their service to their country in its war with Russia.
Dozens of world leaders have converged on a Swiss resort to discuss how to bring peace to war-ravaged Ukraine, though any hopes of a real breakthrough are muted by the absence of Russia.
NATO defense ministers have approved a plan to provide reliable long-term security aid and military training for Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and to begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO.
Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system.
A senior U.S. Treasury official has meet with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv to discuss U.S. financial support, enforcing sanctions on Russia and using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s benefit in the war with Moscow.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Russia is preparing to intensify its offensive along Ukraine’s northern border as the death toll rose to 14 in an aerial bomb attack on a large construction supplies store in the city of Kharkiv.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month.
Two U.S. officials say the Biden administration is expected to announce an additional $275 million in military aid for Ukraine on Friday.
Officials say that Russian missiles have slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the country and killed at least seven civilians.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is committing to keep U.S. weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces one of its toughest moments against a renewed assault by Russia.
A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine has come into force as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s forces in a northeastern Ukrainian town have halted the Russian advance.
