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

Drone downed near Moscow as heavy fighting continues in south, east Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects “a powerful September for Ukraine,” including key decisions from Western allies regarding the provision of important weapons and equipment. The statement came shortly after Kyiv canceled a nationwide overnight air-raid alert and announced the destruction of several...

Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces continued in the country’s southeast, Kyiv said on August 8, as official casualty figures from a Russian missile strike in the eastern city of Pokrovsk rose to nine dead and 82 wounded. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens-kyy announced the higher casualty figures in his evening address, saying all the injured were...

Russia and Ukraine each reported shoot-downs of unmanned drones around their respective capital regions overnight on August 10, while the Ukrainian side said a “massive” Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attack destroyed an oil depot in the western region of Rivne. Ukraine’s military also said its forces were on the offensive in Bakhmut in the...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens-kyy received a report from his intelligence director on August 1, a day marked by air-raid alerts across the country and drone attacks on the Crimean Peninsula and Moscow. “The occupiers will definitely feel the consequences of our work. They will seriously feel it,” Mr. Zelenskyy said in a video on Facebook...

On November 17, U.S. President Joe Biden disputed Ukrainian President Volo­dy­myr Zelenskyy’s comment that missiles that landed in Poland were not of Ukrainian origin. “That’s not the evidence,” Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House upon returning from a trip to Asia. Mr. Biden’s statement followed comments by North Atlantic Treaty Organiza­tion (NATO) chief...

KYIV – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Vira Hyrych died in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike hit the residential building where she lived in the Ukrainian capital. Ms. Hyrych’s body was found early in the morning on April 29 amid the wreckage of the building, which was hit by a Russian missile the night...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged NATO to provide Ukraine with unrestricted military aid as Western leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, kicked off a series of extraordinary summits in Brussels to map out the next steps in efforts to stop Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. “To save people and our cities, Ukraine needs military assistance...

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has been killed, and a movie director injured, after Hollywood star Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of a Western they were filming in New Mexico. Local police said Ms. Hutchins, 42, died from a gunshot wound late on October 21 after being flown to a nearby hospital, while...

Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a draft bill directed at limiting the influence of oligarchs, the day after a car carrying a top aide of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who pushed for the reform, was riddled with bullets as it traveled through a village.

The second and final reading of the proposed legislation – known as “the oligarch law” – was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on September 23.