Author: RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service

Leaving little hope of cease-fire by year’s end Russia maintained pressure along the entire front line in Ukraine on December 14 as Kyiv was targeted by a wave of Russian drones early in the day and Kherson was hit by deadly shelling. Residential buildings in the Dnipro district of Kherson were hit, said Yaroslav Yanushevych,...

The European Parliament has recognized the “artificial” famine in Ukraine caused by the policies of the Soviet government led by Josef Stalin in the early 1930s as genocide. The legislature on December 15 approved a resolution recognizing the Holodomor, “the artificial famine” in Ukraine caused by “a deliberate policy of the Soviet regime, as a...

The Kremlin says that Russia-annexed Crimea remains vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks after officials there said the Russian Navy had shot down a drone near its Sevastopol Black Sea Fleet naval base, and vowed to continue attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure that have left millions without electricity and water at the start of winter. In Crimea,...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens­kyy said an attack on December 7 on the town of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine killed 10 people, while the chief of Ukrenerho said Russian forces have fired more than 1,000 rockets and missiles at Ukraine’s power grid since the start of the war. Mr. Zelenskyy said in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has not ruled out that the fighting in Ukraine could turn into a “lengthy process,” while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will not leave any of its citizens under Russian occupation. The two presidents made the comments on December 7 as they addressed separate human rights organizations. Putin,...

Air-raid alerts were issued across all regions of Ukraine in the early afternoon on December 1 as fighting raged in the eastern region of Donetsk while in the south heavy Russian bombardment knocked out power again in the regional capital of Kherson, where power had only started to be restored after Russian troops fled the...

Ukrainian forces have repelled more Russian military attacks in the east as Moscow pounded civilian settlements in central and southern Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure, the military and regional officials said as millions of people faced power and heating shortages at the onset of winter. Five people were killed in the eastern Donetsk region in shelling...

Stoltenberg accuses Russia of using cold weather as a weapon North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have pledged to help Ukraine repair energy infrastructure that has been heavily damaged by Russian attacks after Kyiv urged its Western partners to supply it with specific electrical transmission equipment to rebuild its power grid. NATO vowed to “further...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the German parliament for recognizing the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor, as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. “Germany recognized the 1932-1933 Holodomor as a genocide. I thank the members of the Bundestag for this historic decision. The truth always wins,” Mr. Zelenskyy said on Twitter....

Russia pummeled Ukraine’s power infrastructure with multiple missile strikes on November 23, with authorities in Kyiv saying three people were killed by a rocket that hit a two-story building, while several Ukrainian regions and neighboring Moldova reported electricity outages. “As a result of the attack, a two-story residential building was damaged. Three people died and...

Security agents in Ukraine have conducted a “counterintelligence” operation at Kyiv’s historic, sprawling 11th century Monastery of the Caves, or Pecherska Lavra, and other facilities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) as part of a probe into suspected pro-Russia activity. The monastery and UNESCO World Heritage site is the seat of the UOC, a branch...

Ukrainian forces have recaptured 12 settlements in the south, advancing seven kilometers in two directions in a period of 24 hours, Ukrainian Army chief Valeriy Zaluzhniy said on November 10 as Russia ordered one of the war’s biggest retreats. Mr. Zaluzhniy said Kyiv could not yet confirm whether Russia was indeed pulling out from the...