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Russia-Ukraine War

National Police of Ukraine’s White Angels unit in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on June 19, 2025.
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What the fall of Pokrovsk would mean for Ukraine — and Russia

by Asami Terajima

With Russia throwing enormous forces into Pokrovsk to finally capture the eastern coal-mine city, questions are rising over what will happen next and whether Ukraine is ready. Taking advantage of foggy weather that hampers drones to ramp up the offensive, Russian troops are trying to end the more than a yearlong battle. After capturing what’s left of Pokrovsk, Russian troops would likely push toward the town of Dobropillia to the north, according to Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with the Finland-b

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Ukraine war latest live: Kyiv repatriates 1,000 bodies that Russia claims are fallen Ukrainian soldiers

Hello, this is Chris York reporting from Kyiv on day 1,366 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Ukraine has received the bodies of 1,000 soldiers which Russia claims are Ukrainian soldiers, it was announced on Nov. 20. According to Ukraine, Russia has repeatedly attempted to hand over bodies of its own killed soldiers passed off as Ukrainians, attempting to hide the scale of its losses from the Russian public. "Repatriation measures were carried out today. On

Why I won’t encourage my Ukrainian child to speak Russian

As a foreigner in Ukraine, I often hesitate to speak on certain social issues. Despite living here for nearly a decade, I know that my American upbringing still limits how deeply I can feel what my Ukrainian friends and colleagues experience, no matter how much I sympathize. Still, now that I have given birth to a Ukrainian citizen, I feel I have the right to say at least this: I will never allow my child to believe there isn't a difference between speaking Ukrainian and Russian. Recently, I w

Women and children visit a makeshift memorial at the site of a missile attack in Sumy, Ukraine, on April 14, 2025.

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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

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