12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (320+ words) Ukraine’s parliament appointed former special forces operative Yevhenii Khmara as defence minister after Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections. Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian lawmakers appointed former special forces operative Yevhenii Khmara as defence minister on Wednesday, hours after his ousted predecessor…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago   (373+ words) Ukrainian lawmakers appointed Yevhenii Khmara as defence minister as former minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for a mechanism to hold elections during the war. Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian lawmakers appointed Yevhenii Khmara as defence minister on Wednesday, hours after his predecessor Mykhailo…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (308+ words) Ukraine has sent Russia an offer through a third party to halt attacks on civilian targets in the Black Sea, pending a response from Moscow. Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine has sent Russia an offer proposing that both countries halt attacks on…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (401+ words) Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday and later struck other Ukrainian regions, killing two people, Ukrainian authorities said. Russia said four civilians were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian-occupied…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (445+ words) Russia is facing fuel shortages following repeated strikes on refineries. At least one attack caused panic in Moscow, with residents seeking shelter after explosions, while reports also described “black rain.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had been forced to…...

2+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (401+ words) Zelenskiy said every democratic nation in Europe deserved to be in the EU and that Ukraine merited membership because it had paid more than any other country for its right to be free, independent and European. He acknowledged that not…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (361+ words) Kyiv, Ukraine. The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had completed the first review of Ukraine’s $8.1 billion loan programme, paving the way for the country to receive a second tranche of $690 million despite missing a key condition. The IMF…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Ukraine’s police chief has accused Russia of recruiting teenage Ukrainian girls to kill Ukrainian military personnel, after police detained a 17-year-old suspected of murdering a serviceman on the instructions of a Russian operative. In an interview published on…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (343+ words) Heavy smoke billows after Ukrainian drones hit infrastructure in St Petersburg, Russia Kyiv, Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s intensified strikes deep inside Russia would allow Kyiv to negotiate an end to the war on equal footing. He made the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (354+ words) Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian drones struck energy targets across several Russian regions overnight, including an oil pipeline pumping station and an oil refinery, according to Russian and Ukrainian authorities. Russia’s Defence Ministry said it downed 216 drones overnight. Ukraine’s General Staff said…...