3+ hour, 22+ min ago   (324+ words) A Ukrainian strike on a passenger bus in occupied eastern Ukraine killed nine people on Wednesday, Russian-installed authorities in the Moscow-controlled Lugansk region said. The war in Ukraine crossed the 4.5-year mark this month, with both sides escalating attacks and…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (436+ words) Ukraine has sanctioned Russian hit children’s cartoon “Masha and the Bear” and its producers in a step towards banning the series, Kyiv’s culture minister said Friday, slamming it as a Russian “propaganda” tool. The cartoon about a mischievous little girl…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (237+ words) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga and his Belgian counterpart Maxime Prevot were on Tuesday forced to hold talks in an underground shelter as an air alert blared out in Kyiv. “Due to Russian drones attacking our capital, we held our…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (275+ words) Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday ordered almost 2,200 children with their guardians to leave settlements in the country’s centre-east Dnipropetrovsk region amid ramped up Russian strikes and Moscow’s troops inching forward. Mandatory evacuation has been announced for 16 settlements located east of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (480+ words) The number of civilians killed in Ukraine in July jumped to its highest level since the first months of the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Thursday, as Moscow intensified its long-range missile strikes. Russia fired a record number of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (461+ words) Ukraine needs five percent of the United States’ Patriot interceptor missiles to get through the winter and 10 percent to destroy all of Russia’s ballistic projectiles, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview published on Thursday. Russia has recently been firing…...

1+ mon, 45+ min ago   (393+ words) Ukrainian strikes on Moscow-occupied territory and a Russian border village killed six people Sunday, as this summer sees a significant rise in civilian deaths in the more than four-year war. A Russian attack on a residential building in Ukraine’s Kharkiv…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (871+ words) Down a country lane on Ireland’s west coast, a sign outside Europe’s largest alumina refinery greets visitors in English, Irish — and Russian. The Aughinish Alumina industrial complex, on the river Shannon estuary in County Limerick, employs some 500 people, and is…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (386+ words) A Ukrainian drone strike on a bus in Russia’s Belgorod border region killed five people, including a child, on Monday, the region’s acting governor said. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Kyiv has intensified its retaliatory strikes on Russia…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (491+ words) Russia said Tuesday it was looking for “alternative shipping routes” and could limit traffic in the Azov Sea due to intensifying strikes by Ukraine which claims to have hit over 110 vessels there in nine days. The Azov Sea lies between…...