KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drones targeted Kyiv Sunday as the British Defense Ministry said there were “few immediate prospects” for major change along the Ukrainian front line as the war enters its second winter. Russia launched 20 Iranian-made Shahed drones overnight, targeting the Ukrainian capital and the Cherkasy and Poltava regions, according to a military … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as part of an overnight bombardment felt across the country, local officials said Saturday, while drones that Russian officials blamed on the Ukrainian military targeted areas around Moscow and the region of Smolensk. A ballistic missile was shot down as it approached the Ukrainian capital, said … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials reported intense combat as Russian forces relentlessly assaulted the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka for a fifth consecutive day Saturday. City leader Vitalii Barabash reported that Moscow was deploying additional forces to encircle the strategically important city in the eastern Donetsk region, situated just north of the Russian-held regional capital, … Read more
Foreign ministers of several European Union nations gathered in Kyiv in a meeting that the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, lauded as “historic.” The event culminated in Borrell’s proposing up to 5 billion euros, or about $5.2 billion, in additional aid to Ukraine. It was a stark contrast from recent developments in Washington, where … Read more
Comment on this storyComment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. A delegation of top European foreign ministers was in Kyiv on Monday in a show of … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Monday led a delegation of top diplomats on an unannounced visit to Kyiv and dismissed concerns about political tension in the bloc over its long-term support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Though largely symbolic, the informal meeting between EU and Ukrainian diplomats demonstrated the EU’s … Read more
Ukraine on Saturday waged another attack on Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean Peninsula, according to a Kremlin-installed official, one day after a Ukrainian strike on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Russian air defenses intercepted missiles headed toward the city, the largest on the peninsula, governor Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram. The same day, … Read more
September 16, 2023 at 10:56 a.m. EDT St. Sophia’s Cathedral at dawn in Kyiv on Feb. 15, 2022. (Ethan Swope/Bloomberg Information)Touch upon this storyComment The United Nations has named historic areas within the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv as World Heritage websites which can be categorized as “in peril” due to Russia’s battle in … Read more
Up to date September 6, 2023 at 11:26 a.m. EDT|Printed September 6, 2023 at 2:11 a.m. EDT Paramedics carry an injured manafter a Russian rocket assault on market in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on Sept. 6. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP) A Russian strike on a market in Kostiantynivka, in Ukraine’s jap Donetsk area, left no less than 17 folks … Read more
August 30, 2023 at 2:24 a.m. EDT Smoke rises over Kyiv early Wednesday after drone and missile strikes hit town. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters) At the very least two folks had been killed in Kyiv because the Ukrainian capital was hit by a deluge of drone assaults and missile strikes early Wednesday, in keeping with metropolis officers. … Read more