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Crime, shifting allegiances, and a Russian passport — How Odesa's longtime mayor fell from grace
ODESA, Ukraine — Hennadiy Trukhanov's day-to-day is not what it used to be. Once the all-powerful mayor is now under house arrest, his passport stripped by presidential decree, he invites the Kyiv Independent to his guest house and pleads his innocence. Trukhanov admits that his political career is over. "For now," he adds. "And then we'll see. I have no doubt I'll get my Ukrainian citizenship back." Trukhanov, 60, has led Ukraine's largest port city, Odesa, for 11 years. Throughout his entir
As Ukraine reparation loan talks drag on, EU provides billions to cover Kyiv's financial needs
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission on Wednesday delivered another tranche of short-term financial relief to Kyiv as talks over a much larger reparations loan based on frozen Russian assets remain mired in political deadlock. The European Commission on Nov. 13 announced that Ukraine received 5.9 billion euros from existing European initiatives. Similarly, the European Investment Bank on the same day announced over 200 million euros in new grants to support critical infrastructure, inclu
Brazilian foreign fighters in Ukraine sound alarm about infiltration by South American gangs
At first glance, a YouTube interview with Philippe Marques Pinto looks like one of dozens of others in Ukraine’s long-running campaign to recruit South American soldiers to bolster its ranks in the fight against Russia. “I worked as a private security guard in Brazil, and when I arrived here, I got training, and it was just a question of adaptation,” Pinto says in an April 25, 2025, video for the Foreign Recruitment Center, a channel run by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. But according to police i
Ukraine war latest live: 'Nobody is pushing them to die for the sake of ruins,' Zelensky says of Pokrovsk defense
Hello, this is Chris York reporting from Kyiv on day 1,358 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: President Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted that Ukrainian soldiers are not being "pushed to die for the sake of ruins" in the defense of Pokrovsk, as concerns mount over the fate of the embattled city. Russian troops have encircled Pokrovsk on three sides, leaving only a roughly 15-kilometer (nine-mile) corridor for Ukrainian forces to bring in reinforcements and sup
Georgia's imprisoned ex-leader asks Zelensky for status of 'civilian captive' in Russia-Ukraine war
Saakashvili requested the status "with the corresponding legal consequences," adding that "Ukrainians never abandon their own." Kyiv has previously managed to free civilian Ukrainian captives during exchanges with Moscow.
Corruption investigation reveals startling link between defense company Fire Point, Zelensky's associate Mindich
Ihor Fursenko, one of the key members of the group allegedly laundering money from the scheme, was formally employed at Fire Point to save him from mobilization and allow him to travel outside of Ukraine, according to a snippet of dialogue released in the trial.
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