Author: RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service

Russian forces bombarded Ukrainian towns along the front lines in the eastern Donetsk region on February 14 as Ukraine’s Western allies met for two days at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels to discuss sending more arms to Ukraine. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the countries that had sent arms to Ukraine...

Ukraine says situation ‘difficult’ Russia’s military launched missile and drone strikes across Ukraine overnight, triggering air alerts and the country’s air-defense system, Ukrainian officials reported early in the morning of February 16 following the overnight attacks. The Ukrainian military said Russia’s military had launched a total of 32 air and sea-based missiles at targets across...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on February 8 made a strong appeal to Western allies to provide his country with fighter jets to combat Russian forces during a visit to the United Kingdom and France on his second known trip abroad since Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of his country one year ago. “I appeal to you and...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens­kyy has told European Union leaders that a free Europe is not possible without a free Ukraine, as he pressed for more weapons to aid Kyiv’s defense against invading Russian forces. “Europe should not have gray zones, our whole continent should be open to Euro­pean destiny,” Mr. Zelenskyy told an E.U. summit...

Israel considering supplying Iron Dome anti-missile defense system Ukraine’s military says there are clear signs that Russian forces are getting ready for a major push in the east, where a stalemate continues despite months-long heavy fighting and intensive daily shelling by Moscow’s troops. The shelling killed at least three people and wounded 20 others in...

The European Union said it plans to hit Russia with a fresh package of punitive measures – the 10th since the start of its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine almost one year ago – as the bloc prepares to hold a summit with Ukraine’s leadership in the capital, Kyiv. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...

Russia has thrown fresh contingents of troops at Ukrainian positions in the east but failed to make notable advances, the Ukrainian military said on February 1, as Kyiv stepped up its efforts to convince its Western allies to give it fighter jets. “The enemy has not paused its offensive actions in the Lyman and Bakhmut...

U.S. President Joe Biden said he would speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about Ukraine’s latest request for sophisticated weapons a day after saying no to sending F-16 fighter jets. Kyiv has been pressing harder for the advanced jets since winning a pledge from Western allies last week for tanks. The United States and its...

Strikes kill at least one person, cause power outages Russia launched a fresh wave of missile strikes on infrastructure targets in Ukraine early on January 26, killing at least one person and prompting power cuts just hours after an overnight drone attack, as heavy fighting continues unabated in the east, where Moscow’s forces have been...

WASHINGTON – After weeks of intense pressure from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and Kyiv, Germany has agreed to donate Leopard 2 advanced battle tanks to Ukraine as the latter prepares for a spring offensive against Russian forces. Berlin has also given a green light to other NATO members, such as Poland, to transfer...

A helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a residential building just outside of Kyiv on January 18, leaving 14 dead, including Internal Affairs Minister Denys Monas­tyrsky and other senior ministry officials, as well as at least one child in what Presi­dent Volodymyr Zelenskyy called “a terrible tragedy.” Mr. Monastyrsky’s first deputy minister, Yevhen Yenin, and...

Russian forces kept focusing their offensive efforts on Bakhmut in the eastern region of Donetsk, Ukraine’s military said, as Kyiv again urged its Western allies to speed up approval for the delivery of advanced heavy weaponry including modern tanks. The Ukrainian military General Staff said in its daily report that Bakhmut and Avdiyivka, where heavy...