Tag: RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

EU leaders decry Russian brutality in visit to Ukraine

IRPIN, Ukraine — Four European leaders made a high-profile visit to show their support for Ukraine on Thursday, denouncing the brutality of the Russian invasion as they surveyed the ruins of a Kyiv suburb that was the scene of intense fighting early in the war and where many civilians were […]

In Ukraine, mines take lives even after fighting moves on

MAKARIV, Ukraine — The truck driver had the radio on, his daughter’s stuffed toy keeping him company, and was bouncing his lumbering vehicle down one of the innumerable dirt tracks in Ukraine that are vital thoroughfares in the country’s vast agricultural heartlands. Then the right rear wheel hit […]

Russians control 80% of contested city in eastern Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern Ukrainian city of Sieverodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of the city but Ukrainian authorities are still trying to evacuate some wounded residents, a regional official said Tuesday. Serhiy Haidai, governor of […]

The battle of Donbas could prove decisive in Ukraine war

Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor. With the conflict now in its fourth month, it’s a high-stakes campaign that could dictate the course of the […]

Ukraine: Russia said to be using more deadly weapons in war

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian and British officials warned Saturday that Russian forces are relying on weapons able to cause mass casualties as they try to make headway in capturing eastern Ukraine and fierce, prolonged fighting depletes resources on both sides. Russian bombers have likely been launching heavy 1960s-era anti-ship missiles […]

Ukraine says troops holding on to Sievierodonetsk, advance in south

Summary Sievierodonetsk battle key to eastern Donbas -Zelenskiy Ukraine claims advances in southern Kherson region Rising concern over food crisis as Russia blockades ports KYIV/SLOVIANSK, Ukraine, June 9 – Ukrainian forces claimed on Thursday to have pushed forward in intense street fighting in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, […]

Russian army base sees scramble for war supplies, locals and soldiers say

June 8 – The town of Valuyki in western Russia has become a crucial staging post in the latest phase of Russia’s war over the nearby border in Ukraine. Throughout last month, helicopters buzzed overhead, military vehicles clogged the roads, and soldiers prepared for combat at a huge military […]

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

June 6 – Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive. read more FIGHTING * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed for more weapons to arrive faster, saying things could become […]

Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia took aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine’s government with early Sunday airstrikes in Kyiv that it said destroyed tanks donated from abroad, a claim denied by a Ukrainian official. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to […]

As Ukraine loses troops, how long can it keep up the fight?

ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine — As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won’t stay that way for long. Col. Oleksandr […]

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