Ukraine

On a recent May afternoon, a Russian train trundles through the country’s southwestern regions near the border with Ukraine. The train’s dining car is packed with Russian soldiers. Some are heading to the front lines in Ukraine, where their country has been waging war for over two years, while others are returning…

A Ukrainian police officer who was captured by Russian forces sobbed when finally freed last week after two years in captivity, where she had been allegedly “starved, beaten and abused.” Mariana Checheliuk, 24, an investigator for the National Police of Ukraine, was released Friday during the 52nd prisoner of war exchange between…

Euronews Romania interviewed the country's Prime Minister about the possibility of supplying Ukraine with a Patriot system. ADVERTISEMENTRomanian officials are discussing the idea of supplying Ukraine with a state-of-the-art Patriot defence system.  However, the Romanian president said it must be approved by the Supreme Council of…

Image source, SERGEY KOZLOV/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Image caption, Russian forces have attacked the Kharkiv region, seizing several border villagesArticle informationAuthor, Paul KirbyRole, BBC News31 May 2024, 14:08 BSTUpdated 33 minutes agoRussia has accused Nato and the US of "provoking a new level of tension" after the US and Germany…

Top Ukrainian military officials have warned that Russia is building up troops near northeastern Ukraine, raising fears that a new offensive push could be imminent in a region that has become a pressure point on strained Ukrainian forces.Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s commander in chief, said on Thursday that Moscow was redeploying troops…

In a warehouse off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in an industrial area outside Dallas, the future of American military ammunition production is coming online.Here, in the Pentagon’s first new major arms plant built since Russia invaded Ukraine, Turkish workers in orange hard hats are busy unpacking wood crates stenciled with the name Repkon, a…

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participated in a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union with EU Defence Ministers on Tuesday (28 May 2024) to discuss continued support to Ukraine and the need to increase defence production.…

Image source, Getty ImagesArticle informationAuthor, Matt MurphyRole, BBC NewsReporting from London 2 hours agoUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Western leaders to pressure Russia into peace using "all means" necessary. Speaking in Spain, Mr Zelensky said there needed to be "tangible coercion of Russia" , which was seeking to…

AS UKRAINE COMES under mounting pressure on the battlefield, Europe is desperately  scrambling to boost its puny production of artillery shells and missiles. In January the EU admitted that it had fallen well short of its pledge to provide Ukraine with one million shells by March 2024. On March 15th it allocated €500m ($542m) to ramp up…

To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browserVideo caption, Watch: BBC's Jeremy Bowen on what new Russian strikes mean for UkraineArticle informationAuthor, Ido VockRole, BBC News25 May 2024, 15:58 BSTUpdated 25 minutes agoAt least two people have been killed and 35 others wounded after Russian forces hit a…