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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pushed for more air defense systems and long-range strike capabilities during a meeting Friday with the US and Western leaders. He made the plea as Russia continues to pound Ukraine with missiles and drones.
High casualties inflicted upon the Ukrainian military since Kiev launched its incursion in Kursk Region could render its armed forces useless, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that Kyiv intends to indefinitely hold the Russian land it seized in its surprise incursion last month.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba tendered his resignation to the national parliament on Wednesday, according to Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk. It comes after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky initiated an apparent purge of senior officials, sacking the deputy head of his office and accepting resignation letters from three ministers, as well as the country’s deputy prime minister.
Washington is “close” to approving the shipment of long-range cruise missiles to Kiev despite repeated warnings from Moscow, Reuters has reported, citing officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The weapons in question – Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) – could be integrated into US-designed F-16 warplanes supplied to Ukraine by its Western sponsors.
A Russian strike against a military educational facility in central Ukraine has killed 49 people and injured at least 219 others, according to a Ukrainian regional military official, in one of the deadliest single attacks since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Ukraine has threatened Mongolia with “consequences” for not arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival in Ulaanbaatar on Monday and handing him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Russia has launched another massive attack on Kyiv, firing more than 20 missiles at Ukraine’s capital the night before the beginning of the new school term.
Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Region has failed to achieve its intended goal of halting the advance of Moscow’s soldiers in Donbass, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
Washington has made it “clear” that it cannot provide Kiev with any significant number of MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in the foreseeable future, CNN has reported, citing an unnamed American official.
The European Union's military aid to Kiev has reached 43.5 billion euros, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said at a press conference in Brussels.
Russia’s investigative committee has launched a terrorism probe into a Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod, believed to have involved cluster munitions, which claimed the lives of five civilians and injured several others.
Mongolia should detain Russian President Vladimir Putin, for war crimes committed in the Ukraine war, because it is a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a spokesman for the Hague-based body has stated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that he had fired his air force commander, making the decision just days after a pilot crashed an American-made F-16 in Ukraine.
The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied Ukraine's claims that an Iranian officer was training Russian soldiers in Moscow's war on Kiev.
A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential building and a playground, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more, local authorities have confirmed.
Ukraine's Foreign Minster Dmytro Kuleba has urged EU states to take "bold decisions" and allow Ukraine to use donated arms to strike deep into Russian territory.
Russia does not see any way to hold peace talks with Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told journalists, commenting on the recent trip to Kiev by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Ukrainian Air Force deployed US-made F-16 warplanes for the first time to intercept Russian missiles on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed. He added, however, that the number of F-16s provided by the West so far is insufficient.
Ukraine’s military incursion into Kursk aims to create a “buffer zone” to prevent cross-border attacks by Moscow's forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday, as his troops blew up a second bridge in the Russian border region.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has warned that the safety at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was “deteriorating” after a nearby drone strike.
The Ukrainian military used Western-made munitions to target civilian infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk Region for the first time on Friday, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow claimed Saturday.
Ukrainian soldiers involved in the incursion by Kiev’s forces into Russia’s Kursk Region, were trained by British military specialists in the weeks before the surprise attack, The Times daily has reported.
Ukraine’s lightning offensive into several Russian border regions is designed to persuade Moscow to engage in “fair” negotiations about its war in Ukraine, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated.
