In the morning on Jan. 18, a helicopter carrying Ukraine's Interior Ministry top officials crashed next to a kindergarten and an apartment building in Brovary, a city just east of Kyiv, claiming the lives of 14 people, including all 10 people onboard. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky was the most senior
Key developments on Jan. 19: * Zelensky pressures allies to send heavy tanks to Ukraine ahead of Ramstein * Poland says it could supply German-made Leopard tanks regardless of Berlin's approval * European Council President Charles Michel visits Kyiv, meets Zelensky * European Parliament seeks to create special tribunal court to prosecute for Russian
U.S. tech giant Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, no longer designates Ukraine’s Azov Regiment as a “dangerous organization.” This means that Azov Regiment members will be allowed to have accounts on Meta platforms, while content posted by other users about Azov Regiment will no longer
Nine European nations have signed a joint statement known as the Tallinn Pledge, committing to providing Ukraine with the support that it needs to liberate all its territory currently occupied by Russia. The United Kingdom, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were represented by their respective defense ministers at the meeting
DNIPRO – Rushing to the hospital shortly after a Russian missile hit an apartment building in Dnipro on Jan. 14, Mykyta Pavlovskyi prayed that his mother's injury wasn't fatal. "We drove to the hospital hoping that everything will be alright with my mom," the 23-year-old graduate student told the Kyiv Independent.
A Russian missile killed 46 people after smashing straight into an apartment building in the city of Dnipro on Jan. 14. It was one of the deadliest single Russian attacks on Ukraine and the deadliest one for Dnipro, a central Ukrainian city with a pre-war population of nearly 1 million.
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Key developments on Jan. 18: * Emergency service: At least 14 killed, including Interior Minister, in helicopter crash near Kyiv * PM: Special task force to oversee investigation into helicopter crash that killed minister, child * Putin claims he has 'no doubt' that Russia will win war against Ukraine A helicopter carrying state
BROVARY, Kyiv Oblast —The smell of smoke was still in the air in Brovary, a city just east of Kyiv, hours after a helicopter crashed on a local kindergarten on the morning of Jan. 18. First responders and law enforcement were bustling around the charred building, where just recently preschoolers
The Jan. 18 helicopter crash in Brovary killed the leadership of the interior ministry, including minister Denys Monastyrsky, his first deputy, Yevhen Yenin, and the ministry’s secretary, Yuriy Lubkovych. The three officials, along with three other people from the interior ministry and three emergency service personnel, had been en
The crash of a State Emergency Service helicopter in Brovary, a city just east of Kyiv, killed 16 people, including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy, Yevhen Yenin, and the ministry's secretary Yuriy Lubkovych, as well as two children, National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko said on Jan. 18.
On Dec. 18, Kyiv resident Tetiana Venhlinska was without power at home for 10 hours straight. The blackout was imposed following another large-scale missile strike in a series of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. For most Kyiv residents, the long power outage was likely a mere annoying inconvenience.
Key developments on Jan. 17: * Controversial advisor to Zelensky resigns after false claims on Dnipro missile attack * UK Defense Ministry backs claims that Moscow used inaccurate missile for Dnipro strike * 19 people are still missing, but the State Emergency Service doesn't expect to find more survivors. Three days after a
DNIPRO – Standing outside a hospital morgue in Dnipro, Yevhen Frantsev, 61, waited for his son to confirm that his missing daughter and grandchildren were killed by Russia. Frantsev's daughter Oksana, 39, was at home with her two daughters – Mykhailyna and Leila, aged three and 13 – when a Russian missile slammed
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Russia brought down a section of a large residential building in Dnipro on Jan. 14, burying people under the rubble. At least 40 civilians were killed and 76 were wounded. Thirty remain missing, as of publication time. As brutal as Russia’s war in Ukraine has been, it’s not
Key developments on Jan. 16: * UN: Russia's war has killed over 7,000 civilians in Ukraine since Feb. 24 * Moscow likely preparing 'decisive action' in next 6 months to 'regain initiative,' Institute for the Study of War says * Russian, Belarusian air forces start joint military exercises along Ukrainian border
Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in our op-ed section are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the views of the Kyiv Independent. When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began almost a year ago, the issue of Ukraine’s very existence and survival came to
Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Independent does not publish the last names of all interviewees to protect their identity. DNIPRO – With dark purple bruises around her eyes, 81-year-old Lidiia packed whatever she could fit into a plastic shopping bag and left home in a hurry on Jan. 15. A day
Key developments on Jan. 14-15: * Death toll in missile strike on Dnipro currently at 30 as first responders continue to rescue civilians from rubble * Energy Minister: Russia's Jan. 14 mass missile strike hits energy infrastructure in 6 oblasts * UK announces Challenger 2 tanks and 155mm artillery in major new military
Russia unleashed its 10th mass missile strike targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure in the afternoon of Jan. 14. The nationwide attack damaged critical infrastructure in several oblasts, according to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. The hits caused emergency blackouts in multiple regions. The strike also hit a nine-story apartment building in Dnipro
Russia launched a missile strike targeting Kyiv early on Jan. 14, the third attack on the capital in 2023. Authorities say the Russian attack damaged "infrastructure" in the capital and a residential building in Kyiv Oblast. Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko reported that Russia was targeting Ukraine's
Key developments on Jan. 13: * Russia shells Bakhmut area in eastern Donetsk Oblast over 200 times in past 24 hours * Clashes between Russia's regular army and private mercenaries reflect a rift, says Danilov * Russia tries to build 2-million strong army through waves of mobilization, Ukraine's intelligence says * Defense Minister Reznikov
Belarus prepares to host a joint military aviation exercise with Russia as echelons of Moscow’s military personnel continue to move into the country. Belarus claims that such efforts are “not directed against third parties.” Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko signed an amendment to the country’s citizenship law, allowing the
Key developments on Jan. 12: * Russia will likely try to reach the "administrative borders" of Donetsk Oblast soon, General Staff believes * Ukrainian military says strike kills over 100 Russian soldiers in Soledar * Satellite imagery shows magnitude of destruction in salt-mining town near Bakhmut. As fierce fighting in and around Bakhmut
For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used his intelligence, including the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU), to try and understand Europe — what they are thinking, how they would react to a crisis of war. The failure
Key developments on Jan. 11: * Zelensky denies Russia captured Soledar, says fighting ‘ongoing’ and front line ‘holding * ’Moscow says Soledar blocked from north and south; Wagner Group founder boasts capturing the town * Poland to deliver Leopard tanks to Ukraine; Lithuania vows to send more air defense systems * Russia’s Defense
Polish President Andrzej Duda made the announcement at a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nauseda in Lviv on Jan. 11 as part of the “Lublin Triangle” format, the regional partnership established by the three in July 2020.
Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko claimed that the fight was unfolding in the western and northern parts of the town, including inside the salt mine. No evacuation or humanitarian aid convoys have been allowed to enter Soledar since Jan. 6 for safety reasons, Kyrylenko said. Some 550 civilians currently remain in Soledar without heating in subzero weather, according to him.
Key developments on Jan. 10: * Russia digs in on Soledar, Donetsk Oblast * German Foreign Minister visits Kharkiv's worst-hit residential district * Kuleba confident Germany will supply Ukraine with Leopard tanks * Canada vows to buy NASAMS air defense system for Ukraine Russian militants in eastern Ukraine said late on Jan. 10 that
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The small salt-mining town of Soledar is on the verge of being occupied by Russian troops after months of heavy fighting. Occupying the "practically destroyed" town would constitute the Kremlin's largest success since July, potentially endangering Ukraine's positions in neighboring Bakhmut. It will, however, have little impact on the war's
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