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Ukraine to seek clarity from US on Russian ceasefire proposal
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (640+ words) Ukraine will seek clarification from US President Donald Trump's team on details of a Russian proposal for a brief ceasefire next week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday. Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and told reporters…...
Forty years after nuclear disaster, Ukraine's Chornobyl plant is haunted by war
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (731+ words) Chornobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine Reuters Denys Khomenko betrays no emotion recalling the night last year when a Russian strike drone tore into the protective arc covering the part of the Chornobyl nuclear plant that suffered the world's worst nuclear…...
Russian attack on Ukraine's Odesa kills married couple, officials say
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (361+ words) A Russian drone attack overnight on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa killed an elderly married couple and wounded more than a dozen others, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. The strike wrecked two two-storey buildings and hit another two-storey one where…...
Russia has taken 1, 700 square kilometres of Ukraine this year, top general says
1+ week, 2+ day ago (466+ words) Russian forces have taken 1, 700 square kilometres of territory in Ukraine this year and are advancing on its so-called fortress belt in Donbas, Moscow's top general said while inspecting his forces." Russia has since its 2022 invasion been seeking to take the…...
Cost of conflict: After years of war with Russia, Ukraine's farmers are hit by Iran conflict
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1118+ words) PAVEL POLITYUK, of Reuters, reports on the impact the turmoil in the Middle East is having on farmers in Ukraine" Mykola Maliienko, who farms the rich, black soil of central Ukraine and exports crops to Europe, is sowing 100 fewer hectares…...
Russian vast daytime drone attack kills three, wounds dozens in Ukraine
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (724+ words) A rare Russian daytime drone attack on Ukraine killed three people, wounded several dozen and set a building in the historic centre of the western city of Lviv aflame on Tuesday, officials said, following an overnight bombardment that killed five....
Russia strikes Kyiv in rare daytime drone attack, debris crashes on main square
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (413+ words) Russia launched a rare daylight attack on Kyiv on Monday using drones that appeared upgraded, Ukrainian officials said, with multiple explosions ripping through the city and drone debris crashing onto the capital's main square. Ukrainian air defence units downed 194 out…...
Ukraine seeks more talks, but Kyiv's partners focused on Iran, Zelenskiy says
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (518+ words) Ukraine is ready for new US-backed peace talks with Russia "at any moment, but its partners" attention is currently focused on the Iran conflict, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, saying that the US had asked to postpone an upcoming…...
Zelenskiy visits eastern front as Ukraine and Russia exchange POWs
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (430+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that he had visited the eastern front line on Friday as Ukraine and Russia completed a two-day prisoner-of-war swap, exchanging 500 soldiers each. Zelenskiy gave awards to troops defending the positions near Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka, cities…...
Ukraine, Russia exchange 200 POWs each in latest swap
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (233+ words) Ukraine and Russia exchanged 200 prisoners of war each on Thursday in their latest swap, officials on both sides said, despite a deadlock in US-backed negotiations to end the four-year conflict. Freed Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) react while they leave…...