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Child injured, homes damaged amid latest Russian attack on Ukraine's capital
A child in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district was injured during a mass Russian attack on the capital on Nov. 29, local authorities reported. Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground said they heard explosions and saw drones as authorities warned of a combined drone and missile strike.
Putin hosts Orban in Moscow for talks on energy, Ukraine
Orban reiterated his readiness to hold the peace talks on Ukraine in Hungary, even as plans for a summit in Budapest between Putin and Trump have been scrapped.
Belarusian soldier fighting for Ukraine sentenced to 13 years in prison
Vasyl Verameichyk, a Belarusian soldier who volunteered to fight for Ukraine, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Belarus, independent outlet Belsat reported on Nov. 28.
Ukraine war latest: Unmanned Systems Forces blow up $60m worth of Russian air defense systems in 3 days
Hello, this is Kateryna Hodunova reporting from Kyiv on day 1,374 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces took out $60 million worth of Russian air defense systems over the course of three days, it claimed in a social media post on Nov. 28. "The Buk-M1, Buk-M2, and Tor-M2 air defense systems were hit. The total cost of these weapons is estimated at $60 million," it said. "These complexes are key elements of the enemy's air defense syst
Zelensky's chief of staff Yermak resigns amid Ukraine's biggest corruption scandal
Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office, submitted his resignation following searches by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) at his premises earlier on Nov. 28, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
Alla Horska’s life and death in Ukraine’s struggle against Russian annihilation
Editor's Note: This story was originally published in The Kyiv Independent's first-ever print edition, titled "The Power Within." You can order a copy in our e-store. Carrying a portrait of Ukrainian artist Alla Horska at her funeral, poet Vasyl Stus, who would himself perish in a Russian labor camp 15 years later, did not shy away from calling her death a murder. On that mournful day, when it fell to Stus to speak, he delivered a poem written in Horska’s memory. Its stark opening line — “Toda
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