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Ukraine war latest live: 'Nobody is pushing them to die for the sake of ruins,' Zelensky says of Pokrovsk defense
Hello, this is Chris York reporting from Kyiv on day 1,358 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: President Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted that Ukrainian soldiers are not being "pushed to die for the sake of ruins" in the defense of Pokrovsk, as concerns mount over the fate of the embattled city. Russian troops have encircled Pokrovsk on three sides, leaving only a roughly 15-kilometer (nine-mile) corridor for Ukrainian forces to bring in reinforcements and sup
From Rio’s favelas to Ukraine’s front line — soldiers sound alarm over Brazilian gang-linked fighter
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
Corruption investigation reveals startling link between defense company Fire Point, Zelensky's associate Mindich
Ihor Fursenko, one of the key members of the group allegedly laundering money from the scheme, was formally employed at Fire Point to save him from mobilization and allow him to travel outside of Ukraine, according to a snippet of dialogue released in the trial.
US sanctions Ukrainian firms accused of helping supply parts for Iran’s Shahed drones used by Russia
The two Ukrainian companies targeted were Ekofera and Imperative Ukraine, which the U.S Treasury says are Ukrainian front corporations.
EU provides Kyiv with 6 billion euros to cover financial needs as talks on Ukraine reparation loan drag out
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission on Wednesday delivered another tranche of short-term financial relief to Kyiv as talks over a much larger reparations loan based on frozen Russian assets remain mired in political deadlock. The European Commission on Nov. 13 announced that Ukraine received 5.9 billion euros from existing European initiatives. Similarly, the European Investment Bank on the same day announced over 200 million euros in new grants to support critical infrastructure, inclu
Rubio says Hungary received only 1-year sanctions waiver on Russian oil, gas
Rubio also confirmed that the U.S. is not interfering in the expansion of a Hungarian nuclear power plant by a Russian company. "We want them to be able to complete it because we want them (Hungary) to be energy independent," he said.
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Get more news like this directly to your inbox every week by subscribing to our Ukraine Business Roundup newsletter. A London court ordered Ukrainian oligarchs Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholyubov to pay more than $3 billion in damages and costs on Nov. 10, marking a major milestone in an almost decade-long saga revolving around once Ukraine's most powerful oligarch. The decision concerns a case involving Ukraine's largest bank, PrivatBank, which the two oligarchs owned before it was nation
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