Ukraine

As Russian troops rolled toward Kyiv in February 2022, millions of Ukrainians fled, but many of those who stayed rushed to protect the country’s cultural heritage. Statues were encased in sandbags, monuments boarded up, sculptures wrapped, and framed paintings taped over.Nearly 2½ years later, away from the front lines but still under constant…

KYIV — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the European Union’s most prominent critic of providing Ukraine with military aid, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in his first visit since Russia’s invasion more than two years ago.His meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky came just a day after Hungary took over the six-month rotating presidency of…

Image source, Marek Berezowski/Project KonstantinImage caption, Peter Fouché died while working as a combat medic, Project Konstantin saidArticle informationAuthor, Jess WarrenRole, BBC News1 hour agoThe British founder of a charitable organisation providing support to frontline soldiers in Ukraine has died "like a hero in the…

A Ladoga.Via TankPorn In the late 1970s, Soviet authorities asked the Kirovsky Design Bureau in Saint Petersburg to develop a nuclear reconnaissance and command vehicle. And not just any nuclear reconnaissance and command vehicle, but the best protected, most comfortable nuke vehicle imaginable. A sealed, self-contained and thickly armored…

They first appeared as a cloud of dust on the horizon. A few seconds later, the motorcycles carrying Russian soldiers sped into view, zigzagging across a field, kicking up dust, attempting a noisy, dangerous run at a Ukrainian trench.“They moved fast, they spread out and they swerved,” said Lt. Mykhailo Hubitsky, describing the Russian…

In the lead-up to Euro 2024, both pundits and the tournament’s organizers expected the ongoing war in Ukraine, which has been stuck in a bloody stalemate for over a year, to be at the center of the conversation. Public support for Ukraine is on the wane in Europe—far-right parties are ascendent in many countries, and several are pro-Russia, or…

He didn’t have any documents.Or money.Or even a phone.He was wrapped in bandages and 2,500 miles from his village in the Himalayas.But as he lay in a Russian military hospital, wounded in battle and surrounded by people speaking an alien language, Krishna Bahadur Shahi, an out-of-work engineer from Nepal who had committed the mistake of joining…

Zelensky says China trying to undermine Ukraine peace summitFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsVladimir Putin’s troops have launched around 100 deadly glide bombs and dozens of drones across the border with Ukraine over the past day.Russia…

The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna has denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media postJune 25, 2024, 11:52 AM ET• 2 min readTALLINN, Estonia -- The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna on Tuesday denounced an extension to the…

Image caption, People lay flowers as tribute to the victims of Sunday's attack on a memorial bearing the word Sevastopol in MoscowArticle informationAuthor, Matt Murphy Role, BBC News24 June 2024, 13:15 BSTUpdated 2 hours agoRussia has blamed the US and vowed "consequences" for a Ukrainian missile strike on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea on…