Author: RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service

As death toll from strike on Odesa climbs to 12 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens­kyy called on March 3 for the world to help Kyiv defeat “Russian evil” as the death toll from a Russian drone strike on Odesa rose to 12, including several children. “Every Russian loss at the front is our country’s response to...

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KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy as the Ukrainian Army’s commander-in-chief just minutes after announcing it was time for a “renewal” and “renewed leadership” of the country’s armed forces. In his statement on February 8, Mr. Zelenskyy said Mr. Syrskiy “has successful defense experience – he conducted the Kyiv defense operation....

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KYIV – Ukrainian officials on January 27 said Russia had intensified attacks in the past 24 hours, with a commander saying the sides had battled through “50 combat clashes” over a period of 24 hours near Ukraine’s Tavria region. Meanwhile, Kyiv and Moscow continued to dispute the circumstances surrounding the January 24 crash of a...

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As strike on market in Russian-occupied Donetsk reportedly kills 27 Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s southern regions of Odesa, Mykolaiyv and Dnipropetrovsk early on January 25, wounding several people and causing material damage, the Ukrainian military and regional officials said. Ukraine’s air defense said the drones attacked Odesa in two separate...

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Ukraine’s priority this year is to regain control over its skies, the country’s foreign affairs minister said, as Russia continues to use aerial attacks to pound its neighbor as the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion nears its third year. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 17, Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba called...

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An “artillery coalition” for Ukraine was launched in France on January 18 by 23 nations as the war-wracked country struggles to ensure continued deliveries of heavy weapons and ammunition to stave off Russia’s nearly two-year all-out invasion. The U.S.- and France-led initiative is part of the Ramstein Contact Group of more than 50 allies of...

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KYIV — Well-known Ukrainian investigative journalist Yuriy Nikolov, whose recent report revealed possible mass corruption among top officials at the Defense Ministry, has linked a recent incident at his apartment, when unknown men tried to force their way into his home, with his reports critical of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his government. Only Mr. Nikolov’s...

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While Kyiv says it hit Russian positions in Crimea Eleven people were killed on January 6 when Russian forces shelled the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, the governor of the Ukrainian-controlled part of the region said. Vadym Filashkin said five children were among those killed in the missile strike on Pokrovsk,...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens­kyy rejected the possibility of a cease-fire with Russia, saying it would not lead to substantive progress in the war and only favor Moscow by giving it time to boost supplies to its military as the conflict nears its second anniversary. “A pause on the Ukrainian battlefield will not mean a pause...

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Poland says West needs to respond to Russian attacks ‘in a language that Putin understands’ Amid the trading of heavy aerial attacks, Russia and Ukraine completed an exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war under a deal sponsored by the United Arab Emi­rates (U.A.E.). Authorities in Kyiv said on January 3 that 230 Ukrainian nationals...

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KYIV – When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainians lined up to join the armed forces in an outburst of patriotism that both inspired the Western world and defied Moscow’s expectations. Now, two years later, amid horrific trench warfare, lack of recent progress on the battlefield and with tens of...

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As Russian drones blast infrastructure sites in north, south KYIV – Ukrainian forces looked to build on bridgeheads on the east bank of the Dnipro River on November 18 after a night in which Russian drone attacks blasted Ukrainian infrastructure and residential sites and caused at least two deaths in northern and southern Ukraine. Kyiv’s...

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