Author: RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says it has launched an investigation into the online appearance of a video on social media purporting to show the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The SBU announced the probe on April 12 as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted Russian forces as “beasts” over the video of...

Kyiv conducts prisoner swap, freeing 100 amid Russia’s ‘scorched Earth tactics’ Ukraine says its forces have repelled dozens of attacks as the invading Russian military pressed on with its offensive in the eastern Donetsk region with air strikes and artillery attacks. “Despite numerous losses in equipment and manpower, the enemy … continues to focus its...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Poland for rallying Western support for Ukraine and said that Russia will not defeat Europe as long as Ukraine and Poland are working closely together. Mr. Zelenskyy, who visited Warsaw on April 5, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki signed a letter of intent to cooperate on the supply of defense...

Says Bakhmut still controlled by Ukrainian forces Ukraine’s president has pushed for the formation of a coalition of Western powers to supply modern fighter aircraft to Kyiv and suggested that while his forces continue to control the battleground eastern city of Bakhmut, a withdrawal would be possible if it meant sparing Ukrainian soldiers’ lives. Speaking...

Ukrainian forces continued to hold their ground on the eastern front over the previous day, the military said on March 30, repelling dozens of attacks in and around Bakhmut, the city in the Donetsk region that has been the focal point of Russia’s offensive over the past several months. The General Staff of the Ukrainian...

Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russia-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind the front lines on March 29 as Rafael Grossi, head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, visited the Russia-occupied Zapori­zhia Nuclear Power Plant for a second major inspection. Several simultaneous explosions rang out “in all areas” of Melitopol,...

KYIV – Clerics of the Ukrainian Ortho­dox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) who have been ordered to leave the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the Ukrainian capital on March 30 defied the eviction order and refused to allow officials from the Culture Ministry and journalists into the historic Orthodox Christian monastery. Scuffles between members of the...

Wave of air strikes on Ukrainian cities kills at least nine people President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 23 visited the partially occupied southern region of Kherson as Kyiv’s forces continued to battle Russian troops in the east amid what the Ukrainian military said were the first signs of Russian “exhaustion” in the fierce fighting for...

Russian troops launched several waves of attacks on Ukrainian positions in and around Bakhmut over the previous day, Ukraine’s military said on March 16, as the monthslong battle for the city in the eastern region of Donetsk continued at high intensity. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its daily bulletin...

Russia launched a massive wave of air strikes on Ukraine, authorities reported on March 9, causing casualties and multiple power cuts across the country and halting the power supply of the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhia as the battle for Bakhmut in the east raged on. At least four people were killed in the strikes...

Zelenskyy says front line ‘under control’ Russian shelling of Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhia killed several civilians, regional officials said, as Moscow pressed on with its assault on Bakhmut, piling up formidable pressure on the Ukrainian defenders of the city in the eastern Donetsk region of the country. The number of Russian offensive actions repelled...

Ukrainian forces repelled scores of Russian attacks in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk over the previous day, Kyiv said on February 23, as Moscow’s full-scale invasion approached the one-year mark. Russia launched artillery barrages on Bakhmut, Lyman, Avdiyivka and Shakhtarsk in Donetsk, as well as on Kupyansk, in the northeastern Kharkiv region, the...