Ukraine

As much as $300 billion in Russian assets, frozen in the West since the invasion of Ukraine, is piling up profits and interest income by the day. Now, Europe and the United States are considering how to use those gains to aid the Ukrainian military as it wages a grueling battle against Russian forces.There has been a debate for months about…

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. A Ukrainian BM 21 "Grad" MLRS firing at a Russian position near the town of Kupyansk, Kharkiv, on April 18, 2024. ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images Russia is exploiting Ukraine's manpower shortage, a war analyst told The New York Times.Franz-Stefan Gady told the…

12 May 2024, 13:12 BSTUpdated 48 minutes agoTo play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browserVideo caption, Watch: Russian apartments collapse after explosionRussia is blaming a Ukrainian strike after an entire section of an apartment building collapsed following an explosion in Belgorod. CCTV from the scene shows a…

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. A Russian Su-34 fighter jet. Artyom Anikeev/Stocktrek Images In early May, reports circulated that Russia had accidentally bombed its own territory in Belgorod.It's not the first time Russian forces have made such an error.UK intelligence said such instances…

Image source, REUTERS/Vyacheslav MadiyevskyyImage caption, Three children were hurt in a separate attack on the regional capital KharkivArticle informationAuthor, James Waterhouse & Paul KirbyRole, BBC News in Kyiv and London10 May 2024, 11:58 BSTUpdated 4 hours agoUkraine says it has repelled a Russian armoured attack in the north-eastern…

Mariia Vysochanska of Ukraine, accompanied by 27 EU athletes and paraathletes, participates in the Olympic torch relay in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, May 9, 2024. Torchbearers are to carry the Olympic flame through the streets of France’ s southern port city of Marseille, one day after it arrived on a majestic…

As the West struggles to define its strategy in Ukraine, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have long insisted that the only path to a “just and lasting peace” is to support Ukraine until Russia unconditionally admits defeat. They dismiss calls for a negotiated settlement as naive, dangerous and futile, claiming that…

President Xi Jinping of China, on a two-day visit to France, spoke out firmly against criticism of his country for its close relationship with Russia during the war in Ukraine, saying that “we oppose the crisis being used to cast responsibility on a third country, sully its image and incite a new cold war.”Flanked by the French president,…

Russia said on Monday that it would hold military exercises with troops based near Ukraine to practice for the possible use of battlefield nuclear weapons, ratcheting up tensions with the West after two European leaders raised the prospect of more direct Western intervention in the war.Such weapons, often referred to as “tactical,” are designed…

The bodies of the two Ukrainian soldiers lay motionless in a field for months. Around them were bloodstains and their rifles.The soldiers’ relatives identified their bodies from aerial footage gathered by drone. Though excruciating to watch, it seemed clear: The two men — Pvt. Serhiy Matsiuk and Pvt. Andriy Zaretsky — were dead. Yet more than…