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Ukraine liberated 590 square kilometers of territory this year, 'forcing Russia toward diplomacy,' Zelensky says
"We continue to increase the rate at which Russian personnel are being eliminated," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Trump's intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard resigns
Tulsi Gabbard said she is resigning to support her husband, who is battling "an extremely rare form of bone cancer."
Ukraine war latest: Russia claims deadly Ukrainian drone strike hit dormitory in occupied Luhansk Oblast, Kyiv calls it 'misleading information'
Key developments on May 22: * Ukraine denies Russian claim that drone strike killed civilians in occupied Luhansk Oblast * Ukraine strikes Russia's Yaroslavl Oil Refinery 4 times in month, Zelensky confirms * Russia offers university admission boost for students who pass drone piloting exam * Russian attacks kill 5, injure 52 across Ukraine as Dnipro drone strike leaves dozens wounded Ukraine's General Staff on May 22 rejected Russian claims that an overnight Ukrainian drone strike killed
Ukraine denies Russian claim that drone strike killed civilians in occupied Luhansk Oblast
The Ukrainian General Staff called the Russian claim "misleading information," stressing that it strictly adheres to the international humanitarian law and strikes military infrastructure and facilities used for military purposes.
Field report: Training at Russia's doorstep, NATO readies for a drone-ruled battlefield
VORU COUNTY, Estonia — In southeast Estonia lies a lake-studded, woodland region locals call Missomaa, which makes up the country's three-way borderland with Latvia and Russia. Its innocuous-looking woods are overlaid by cameras and sensors feeding data to a British unit stationed nearby, informing their first-person-view (FPV) drone operators about an "enemy" vehicle closing in. Corey, an operator of the British 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 Scots), simulates a strike by doing
Killing Ukrainian artists is Russia's century-old tradition
On May 22, 1979, thousands gathered in Lviv to bid farewell to Volodymyr Ivasyuk, one of the most influential figures in modern Ukrainian music. Weeks earlier, the composer had disappeared under mysterious circumstances before being found dead in a forest near the city of Lviv, in what Soviet authorities declared a suicide. Yet for Ukrainians, Ivasyuk's death became inseparable from the broader machinery of Soviet repression aimed at silencing Ukrainian culture and identity. His funeral transf
About Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The Kyiv Independent's news and on-the-ground reporting from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which covers 31,974 square kilometers (12,348 square miles) in central-eastern Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's population is approximately 3.2 million, and its administrative center is Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city and major economic hub. Ukrainian forces use the region as a logistics base for operations in the eastern and southern fronts.
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Kyiv will have to improve its revenue collection and how efficiently it spends money, the European Commission said in a press release on May 20, if it wants to access more than $8 billion of the loan.
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