Author: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Ukrainian Service

Kremlin attack destroys Trypilska thermal power plant President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has again called on Ukraine’s allies to give the embattled country more air-defense systems as Russia struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure targets, including a major power plant south of Kyiv, killing at least four people and leaving hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without electricity. The coal-powered...

KYIV – Ukraine’s parliament, the Ver­khov­na Rada, has passed a law on military mobilization that will boost the number of its troops, two lawmakers reported, as the country struggles with depleted forces in the face of the more than 2-year-old Russian invasion. The law expands the powers of Ukrain­ian authorities to issue draft notices, including...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on European Union leaders at the opening of their two-day summit in Brussels on March 21 to “progress on the issue of fair use of Russia’s frozen assets.” “This year, we must use Russian assets to protect and restore life in Ukraine, which is being destroyed by the aggressor....

An intense wave of Russian missile and drone strikes on six Ukrainian regions on February 7 killed at least five people – four of them in a high-rise apartment block in the capital, Kyiv – wounded dozens of others and caused widespread damage to energy infrastructure. Five more Ukrainian civilians were killed during a separate...

KYIV – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and United Nations nuclear chief Rafael Grossi arrived on separate visits to Kyiv as Russian missile strikes continued to claim victims among Ukrainian civilians, killing a 2-month-old boy on February 6 in the Kharkiv region. “Back in Kyiv for my fourth visit since the start of...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europe’s leaders to find ways to “accelerate” aid to Ukraine as Russia continued to pound the European Union hopeful with missiles. “We will, in the months to come, have to accelerate the scale of our support,” Mr. Macron said in a speech on January 30 during a visit to Sweden....

Moscow shells Kherson, Sumy region, injuring at least four children Russia fired drones at targets across Ukraine, including Kyiv, early on December 20, Ukrainian authorities said, as the Kremlin ruled out peace talks hours after further U.S. aid to Ukraine was thrown into doubt. The Ukrainian Air Force said 18 of 19 drones launched at...

The U.S. Senate on December 6 blocked a White House request for $106 billion in emergency aid primarily for Ukraine and Israel as Republicans objected to the bill’s lack of immigration reforms. A vote on whether to allow the bill to advance marked a significant defeat for President Joe Biden, who had urged Cong­ress in...

As Kyiv gets worrying news about Western support Local military officials in eastern Ukraine say Russian forces have expanded their avenues of attack against the Donetsk region town of Avdiyivka in an effort to surround and capture it “at any cost.” Ukrainian forces have been engaged in heavy fighting for weeks as they try to...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens­kyy canceled an address to U.S. senators on December 5 as debate heated up on Presi­dent Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion request for funding for the wars in Ukraine and Israel. Mr. Zelenskyy had been expected to make Ukraine’s case for continued Ameri­can military aid as Ukraine braces for a difficult winter...

Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy, who was arrested in Kyiv last month on suspicion of fraud and money-laundering, has transferred corporate rights over his 1+1 media group to the company’s employees. In a statement published on 1+1’s website on October 26, Mr. Kolomoyskiy said he made the decision “to protect and preserve the principles of freedom...

Ukrainian Commander in Chief Valeriy Zaluzhniy on October 26 discussed the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine as well as the Ukrainian military’s equipment requirements during a meeting with the commander of U.S. forces in Europe and the chief of the British Defense Staff. Mr. Zaluzhniy met with U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli and Royal...