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Ukrainian strikes in Russia

A Ukrainian-made Neptune missile being fired on April 5, 2019.

Opinion: Ukraine needs to rethink its long-range strike strategy

by Peter Layton

In 2022, Russia launched long-range strikes deep into Ukraine, confident that Ukraine could not retaliate in kind. By 2023, that situation changed. Ukraine received medium-range HIMARS rockets from the U.S., Storm Shadow and SCALP cruise missiles from the U.K. and France, and developed long-range attack drones of its

Zelensky (L), U.S. Biden (C), and UK’s Starmer (R) pose at an event during the UN Assembly in New York on Sep. 25, 2024.

Opinion: Shifting the paradigm in Ukraine

by Marci Shore

Last month, a Russian missile blew apart an apartment building in the center of Lviv. I sent a message to a friend who lives there: Was everyone okay? “Yes, we were lucky,” he replied. “Our friends who live just next to us, a young woman and her three daughters, are

Ukraine war latest: Ukraine strikes Russian airfield in Voronezh Oblast, source says

Ukraine war latest: Ukraine strikes Russian airfield in Voronezh Oblast, source says

by The Kyiv Independent news desk

Key developments on Oct. 3: * Ukrainian drones strike Russian airfield in Voronezh Oblast, SBU source says * Zelensky calls for jointly intercepting Russian missiles during NATO chief Rutte's visit to Kyiv * Russia attacking Kursk Oblast settlements with no Ukrainian troops present, Kyiv's military claims * Ukraine receives Patriot air defense system from

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Ukraine troops in Kursk Oblast must surrender, Putin claims.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 14 that Ukrainian soldiers must surrender in Kursk Oblast after U.S. President Donald Trump's request to "spare" the troops he claimed are surrounded. Ukraine denied claims that the country's troops are surrounded at any part of the front.
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