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'Nothing like this has ever happened here' — Kyiv Oblast village reels from deadly drone strike
In the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war, parts of Ukraine are still facing devastating firsts. On Oct. 22, tragedy struck the village of Pohreby in Kyiv Oblast — a Russian drone hit a house where 38-year-old Antonina Zaichenko, her six-month-old daughter Adelina, and her 12-year-old niece, Nastya Nehoda, were sleeping. All three were killed. "Nothing like this has ever happened here. We all know one another. It’s a tragedy for the whole community," Vitalii Krupenko, the village head, to
After scandal erupts, controversial Ukrainian colonel denies sharing 'classified' front-line maps on TikTok
The map allegedly showed the front in southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
French court rejects extradition request for Ukrainian billionaire in bribery case
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) charged Ukrainian billionaire Kostiantyn Zhevago in 2023 with bribing Vsevolod Kniazev, former head of the Supreme Court.
Court sets bail for Ukraine's ex-grid operator chief at $325,000. He calls the case against him 'political'
At the hearing, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi's lawyer, Mykola Hrabyk, called the allegations "unfounded," saying that the case materials contain no evidence of criminal wrongdoing on his part.
US to cut some troops on NATO's eastern flank, Romania says
"The American decision involves halting the rotation in Europe of a brigade that had units in several NATO countries," the Romanian Defense Ministry said.
Is Russia’s ‘flying Chornobyl’ a real threat?
On Oct. 21, Russia announced a successful test of Burevestnik, a nuclear-powered cruise missile with a claimed “unlimited range.” Does this "super-weapon’ pose a new threat?
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After two and a half months of intense fighting, the red rabbit-ear-looking shape on the battlefield map of Donetsk Oblast is gone for good. With the liberation of two more villages, Sukhetske and Kucheriv Yar, announced by the Ukrainian military over the weekend, the operation to clear the major Russian breach of Ukrainian lines near the city of Dobropillia is all but over. Compared to the dramatic alarm of mid-August, when hundreds of Russian troops pierced through a porous and chaotic defen
