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Russian strikes killed eight civilians and wounded dozens of other people in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia. Ukraine is under mounting pressure from Russia’s...

Russian forces have launched ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing at least 16 people and wounding 33, officials said. Explosions rang out across several districts of Kyiv early on Thursday, shaking buildings and setting off car alarms, according to the Kyiv Independent, a...

The intensifying use of drones against civilians and humanitarian workers is a dangerous obstacle for aid operations in Ukraine, the UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, said on Wednesday. Fletcher spoke to The Associated Press in an interview after a visit to the southern city of Kherson, where...

Ukraine’s former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections in the biggest internal challenge President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has faced since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022. In a bombshell address posted on YouTube on Tuesday, Fedorov said democracy in Ukraine...

Russian forces have killed at least six people in Ukraine, according to officials, after launching ballistic missile attacks on the capital, Kyiv, and strikes on other regions, including a supermarket in the northern city of Chernihiv. The attacks on Sunday came as Russian officials said that Moscow...

Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 17 civilians and injuring scores more in what Moscow said was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities that have caused severe fuel shortages and put pressure on President...

A cathedral in one of the oldest and most sacred landmarks in Eastern Orthodox Christianity was set ablaze early Monday as Russia bombarded Ukraine’s biggest cities, killing 11 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Five were killed in Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, where at least 30 others...

Hundreds of Ukrainians marched through the capital on Friday, demanding that the government veto a bill that families of missing soldiers say could lead to their loved ones being prematurely declared dead. The protesters gathered to oppose Bill No. 13646, which addresses the legal status of missing...

The war in Ukraine, now well into its fifth year, “is becoming deadlier by the day”, a senior UN official warned in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. “In the last week alone, we witnessed one of the largest aerial bombardments of Ukraine since the Russian Federation’s full-scale...

The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building rose Friday to 24, including three teenagers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he led the mourning for one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war. The cruise missile hit the...