Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine Thursday. Kiev has confirmed war has broken out between Russia and Ukraine, and Moscow has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has claimed that Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk region. This marks the first time Kyiv has announced the capture of soldiers from North Korea alive since their entry into the war last autumn.
US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming special envoy has stated that he hopes to mediate a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict within 100 days, starting on Inauguration Day on January 20.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's public trust rating in the country has dropped from 90% at the start of the war between Moscow and Kiev in early 2022 to 52% in December 2024.
A draft resolution to recognize Russia’s war against Ukraine as genocidal was among the first bills submitted to the new US Congress, according to the Congress’ website.
The Donald Trump administration's Ukraine peace envoy, Keith Kellogg, has postponed a visit to Kyiv until after the president-elect is inaugurated on Jan. 20, Reuters reported, citing four sources with knowledge of the trip.
Ukrainian soldiers repelled 94 Russian ground attacks in Russia's Kursk Oblast over the past day, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces has reported amid escalating hostilities in the region.
Roderich Kiesewetter, the defense spokesperson for Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has stated that Chancellor Olaf Scholz could meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin before Germany's parliamentary elections on Feb. 23.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that Russian and North Korean forces suffered significant losses during recent clashes in the Kursk region.
Washington supplied “a lot of weapons” to Kiev in the months before the start of war between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed.
China may have talked Russian President Vladimir Putin out of deploying nuclear weapons amid Moscow's war against Kyiv, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated in an interview with the Financial Times.
In 2024, the Russian military sustained its highest-ever losses in manpower and equipment since the onset of the war in Ukraine. Kiev has announced that over the course of the year, Ukrainian forces neutralized 430,790 Russian troops.
Russia has officially stopped gas transit through Ukraine as of 8am Moscow time on January 1, confirming the expected end of contracts that have been in place since 2019. Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced the halt after negotiations to extend the transit agreements with Ukrainian companies Naftogaz and the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine fell through.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated Moscow will not agree to a mere postponement of Kiev’s NATO membership, or to the deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine – two ideas reportedly proposed by advisers of US President-elect Donald Trump, as part of a potential peace deal.
Kiev's stockpiles of Washington-supplied long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) are running low, the New York Times has reported, citing senior US officials.
Ukrainian troops are exhausted from three years of war and increasingly want to see a negotiated end to the conflict with Russia, the Washington Post has reported, citing sources in the country’s military.
Almost one in five of the world’s children live in areas affected by conflicts, with more than 473 million children suffering from the worst levels of violence since the second world war, according to figures published by the UN humanitarian aid organisation for children, UNICEF on Saturday.
It is not likely that EU member states will send peacekeepers to Ukraine, especially without US participation, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
US President Joe Biden has directed the Pentagon to "continue its surge" of weapons and military equipment deliveries to Ukraine in response to Russia's mass attack on the country on Christmas Day.
Russia has accused the West of “stealing” its assets after the US transferred $1 billion from Moscow’s frozen central bank funds to Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated that Noscow could take legal action in response.
Pope Francis has urged the world “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions” in his traditional Christmas message, using his address to call for peace in West Asia, Ukraine and Sudan. He has also expressed concern over the “extremely grave” humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
