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Child injured, homes damaged amid latest Russian attack on Kyiv

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.

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

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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The Kyiv Independent delivers reliable news, context, and on-the-ground reporting from Ukraine. The largest country located entirely in Europe, Ukrainian territory covers 603,628 square kilometers (233,062 square miles), and is bordered by bordered by seven countries, namely Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova. Ukraine traces its history back to the medieval state of Kyivan Rus.

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