Author: RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service

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...

Kyiv says Russian claim of control over salt mining town untrue Russia’s assault on the salt-mining town of Soledar in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region continued despite earlier Russian claims that the city had been captured. Over the course of recent nights, Russian forces used artillery, rockets and aircraft to pummel the city, which is a...

Ukrainian officials say Russian forces launched new assaults in eastern Ukraine on January 9, hitting communities with constant shelling that killed civilians and destroyed homes even in towns that have been completely evacuated. Serhiy Hayday, the regional governor in Ukraine’s Luhansk region, said heavy fighting continued in the region from both the Kharkiv direction to...

Kremlin move comes after holiday attacks kill civilians in Ukraine Ukraine has described a cease-fire ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Orthodox Christmas holiday as “hypocrisy” and said there could only be a “temporary truce” if Russia withdraws its forces from territory it has seized in Ukraine. “Russia must leave the occupied territories...

There are signs that Russia is preparing an escalation of the war in Ukraine in Feb­ruary, the secretary of Ukraine’s Security Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said on January 4, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive. “There are many signs that...

With fighting raging in the partially Russia-occupied eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Kyiv’s Western allies appeared to be moving toward providing advanced armored combat vehicles to the Ukrainian military. In its daily briefing on the war on January 5, the Ukrainian military said more than 800 Russian soldiers had been killed or wounded, mostly in...

WASHINGTON – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a unified message on the status of the war in Ukraine on December 21 as Mr. Zelenskyy met with Mr. Biden at the White House and received more assurances that the United States will continue to stand by Ukraine. Mr. Biden announced a...

Heavy fighting continued in Donetsk as Russian forces pressed their relentless attacks on eastern Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a daring visit to Bakhmut, one of the two frontline cities that together with Avdiyivka have been the focus of Moscow’s months-long offensive. “This is our Luhansk region, this is our south of Ukraine, this...

Russian forces kept pounding critical power infrastructure in Ukrainian cities, killing more civilians and leaving tens of thousands of more people without electricity, as its troops stepped up the pace of their relentless attacks along the entire front line of the war in the east. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned...