Ukraine war

Approximately 150,000 Russians killed in Moscow’s invasion in 2024, making it the deadliest year of the conflict so far, claims Kyiv.

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least four people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

Ukrainian police conducted nationwide raids on draft dodger gangs on Friday as the country battles to generate enough conscript soldiers.

UK says it will hand over a rapidly and secretly developed launcher which repurposes stocks of surplus air-to-air missiles to a ground role.

Polish leader Tusk vowed to use country´s EU presidency to push Ukraine´s membership quest as the two sides reported progress.

Ukraine says it launched its “most massive” attack of the war yet, launching over a dozen Western cruise missiles deep inside Russia.

Ukrainian President says he again discussed deploying Western troops to face down future Russian aggression in a call with Macron

Russia going around vital logistics hub, taking aim at highway that leads to Dnipro instead, Major Viktor Trehubov says.

An attempt was made to destroy the final working pipeline carrying Russian gas energy into Europe, Moscow claims.

Ukraine’s forces have captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops in Russia´s Kursk border region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

For the West, the incidents are a test of resolve in the face of what are believed to be widespread sabotage attacks linked to Moscow.

Donald Trump can’t see the “bigger picture”, a top Eurocrat says, as Zelensky calls for Western troops to “force Russia into peace”.

Ukraine said it struck a fuel depot deep inside Russia, causing a huge blaze at the facility that supplies an important air base.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday urged Ukraine to have “realistic” expectations on territory as its fight against the Russian invasion heads into a fourth year, saying he saw no “quick and easy solution” to the conflict.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will again call on allies to boost its air defenses at this week’s meeting in Germany, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes over later this month with a vow to end the almost three-year war quickly.

Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency on Saturday, as oil was detected on the shores of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city.

President-elect Donald Trump is “capable of stopping” Russian President Vladimir Putin and he will be a driving force delivering an expeditious outcome to the war in Eastern Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday in a domestic television interview.

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Despite nearly three years of war Russian energy has continued to transit unimpeded through Ukrainian territory until now.

Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones.

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk, a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has offered up his country as a potential venue for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine just days after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

A cross country survey in Europe has found that support for a forever war in Ukraine is falling, perhaps not coincidentally given President-Elect Donald Trump’s demands that the Europeans pay for their own defence. 

A major electricity interconnector unexpectedly went offline on Christmas day, with officials saying they are not ruling out sabotage.

Zelensky decried Russia’s massive airstrike against power infrastructure, accusing them of trying to cause a Christmas Day power cut. 

Sweden said China had denied a request for prosecutors to conduct an investigation on a Chinese ship linked to two severed Baltic Sea cables.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has developed a habit of biting the hand that feeds, the NATO Secretary General cautions. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in the Kremlin on Sunday with Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to Moscow by an EU leader since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

More than 7,500 people, many of them volunteers, raced to rescue wildlife and clean up shorelines blighted by mazut, a heavy, low-quality oil product, according to Russian news reports.

Ukrainian drones struck a major Russian fuel depot for the second time in just over a week on Sunday, according to a senior Russian regional official, as part of a “massive” cross-border attack on fuel and energy facilities that Kyiv says supply Moscow’s military.

Ukraine brought the war into the heart of Russia Saturday morning with drone attacks that local authorities said damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan in the Tatarstan region, over 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the front line.

A Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Friday killed at least one person and injured nine others, officials said. Moscow claimed it was in response to a Ukrainian strike on Russian soil using American-made weapons.

French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly leading efforts to deploy a European force of up to 100,000 troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers in the event of ceasefire deal brokered by incoming President Donald Trump.

The head of Russia’s nuclear and chemical forces was killed by a bomb blast in Moscow early Tuesday, officials said.

A Ukrainian drone struck a campus belonging to Russia´s National Guard Sunday in the Russian region of Chechnya.

The U.S. plans to introduce sanctions against Serbia´s main gas supplier that is controlled by Russia, Serbia´s president said Saturday.