Author: RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and Ukraine on July 26 condemned Russia’s decision to withdraw from the Black Sea grain deal and what they said were Russia’s deliberate attempts to stop Ukraine’s agricultural exports. In a statement issued after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council in Brussels, NATO said the allies also condemned Russia’s...

VILNIUS – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine “removed any doubts and ambiguities about whether Ukraine will be in NATO [the North Atlantic Treaty Organization]” during the alliance’s two-day summit in Vilnius that ended on July 12. He welcomed the security guarantees provided by the countries of the Group of Seven (G-7), saying never before...

VILNIUS – Ukraine’s future is inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but the military alliance will extend an invitation to Kyiv only when “members agree and conditions are met,” NATO leaders said in a declaration that disappointed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the first day of their summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. NATO Secretary General...

KYIV – Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, in a surprise visit to Ukraine, assured President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of his strong support for Kyiv’s “courageous” fight against the Russian invasion. “Freedom is winning in Ukraine,” Mr. Pence told reporters on June 29 after meeting with Mr. Zelenskyy. “Now more than ever, we need to keep...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens-kyy told a European Union summit on June 29 that the recent failed mutiny in Russia demonstrated the country’s “weakness,” saying it will aid Kyiv in its fight against Moscow’s brutal invasion. “We are seeing their weakness, which we so badly need,” he said by video link to the Brussels gathering. “The...

A key bridge connecting Russian-annexed Crimea with the occupied part of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson was damaged after being hit by what a Moscow-appointed official said were Storm Shadow missiles fired by Ukrainian forces. Volodymyr Saldo, the Russian-installed chief of occupied Kherson Oblast, said on his Telegram channel that the strike early on June...

Russian missile strikes killed at least six people over the night from June 14 to June 15 in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa and in the eastern region of Donetsk as Moscow continues its intense aerial attacks on its neighbor. Russia has intensified its air attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks as Kyiv...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine is making progress in its counteroffensive against Russian invaders and predicted NATO leaders will increase military assistance to Kyiv when they meet next month. Mr. Stoltenberg made the comments as he met at the White House with President Joe Biden after Russian missile strikes...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens-kyy described the breach of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction” as a Ukrainian official and the United Nations warned that it could spark an environmental disaster. The breach of the Russia-held Soviet-era dam in the early hours of June 6 unleashed a torrent of...

The United States on May 31 announced an aid package for Ukraine that includes Patriot air-defense batteries, ammunition and other defense equipment as Ukrainian authorities said attacks by Russian troops killed one person in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and one person in the Kherson region. The security assistance package worth up to $300 million was announced...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for a “clear” decision on Ukraine’s future with the Western military alliance as another wave of air strikes on Kyiv killed at least three people, including one child, who were shut out of an air-raid shelter. Speaking at a summit of the European Political...

Russia launched a fresh wave of drone strikes on Kyiv on May 30 – the fourth attack in three days – killing at least one person and wounding several others, but Ukrainian authorities said most of the drones were shot down by the capital’s air defenses, while Moscow was subjected to a rare drone attack...