Key developments on Feb. 20: * Biden meets Zelensky in Kyiv on EuroMaidan bloodshed anniversary; * As Biden visits Kyiv, China's top diplomat heads to Moscow; * Pentagon announces $460 million military aid package for Ukraine. Just days before the one-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden
Key developments on Feb. 13: * Russia has already started new offensive in Ukraine, says Stoltenberg * Moscow's attacks on liberated Kherson kill 4 people * Russia strengthens its defenses in Zaporizhzhia Oblast despite focus on Donbas, UK defense ministry reports. On Feb. 13, Ukraine denied Russia's earlier claim that it had seized
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
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
Key developments on Jan. 6: * Luhansk governor reports 14 instances of Russian fire in the first hours of Putin's 'Christmas ceasefire'. * Russia's shelling kills in 1 Kherson, 1 in Donetsk Oblast during the 'truce'. * US to provide $3 billion military aid package to Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin's unilateral ceasefire
Key developments on Jan. 5: * Putin says he wants 'Orthodox Christmas ceasefire.' * Zelensky, Biden express skepticism over truce offer. * General Staff says Russian troops focus efforts on capturing Donetsk Oblast. * Russian troops continue arriving in Belarus, the country's Defense Ministry reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he ordered his
Key developments on Dec. 23: * Russia doesn’t want peace, but pause for regrouping, says NATO chief * Russia’s attacks across 7 Ukrainian oblasts kill 5, injure 14 over past day * 54 Russian torture chambers discovered in liberated areas NATO chief skeptical about Russia-Ukraine peace talks In an op-ed for
Key developments on Dec. 22: * Associated Press discovers over 10,000 new graves in Russian-occupied Mariupol * Zelensky meets with Polish President in Rzeszów on return from historic trip to US * US Congress approves amendment to transfer seized assets of Russian oligarchs to Ukraine * Putin calls Patriot missile systems 'outdated' after
Key developments on Dec. 19: * Russia receives 250 more Iranian-made kamikaze drones, says Zelensky * Russia attacks Kyiv with 35 drones, air defense downs 30 * "Very high" risk of new Russian offensive towards occupied Transnistria, says Moldovan intelligence Russia launched another attack on Ukraine using Iranian-made kamikaze drones before sunrise on
Key developments on Nov. 18: * Ukraine repels Russian advances near 9 settlements in east * Zelensky discusses grain deal with Erdogan after the Turkish president spoke with Putin * Nord Stream explosions came as a result of ‘gross sabotage,’ Swedish Security Service says * Nearly 30% of Ukrainian territory is mined, according to
NOVOVORONTSOVKA, Kherson Oblast – Volodymyr Bebekh finished watering his garden in the evening and decided to wash up in his outdoor shower. As he went to turn on the water, a Russian rocket flew right into his neighbor’s home. “Instead of a shower, I got covered in dirt,” Bebekh said.
VINNYTSIA – Of the more than 100 people who sought medical attention at the local hospital after Russian missiles struck the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on July 14, Tetyana Drobotyn was looking for just one, her husband. “It was just a mess. Doctors were performing CPR right in the hallway,
Ukraine has pushed Russian forces to abandon the Snake Island, a small but strategic outpost in the Black Sea, the Operation Command South said on June 30. According to the Ukrainian military, "the enemy hastily evacuated the remnants of the garrison in two speedboats and probably left the island." Russia's
Ukrainian troops were ordered to withdraw from Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai said on June 24. The city has been the scene of fierce fighting for the past several months, with Russian troops controlling most of it. According to the Kyiv Independent's sources in the military, as well as
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