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Russian and Ukrainian attacks kill at least 13, officials say
Reuters | Posted July 16 - 6:30 p.m.
Russian and Ukrainian attacks on civilian areas in towns and cities, many on the front line of the more than four-year-old war, killed at least 13 people on Thursday, local officials said.
Zelenskyy taps new defense chief in bid to quell political crisis
Yuliia Dysa, Max Hunder and Dan Peleschuk, Reuters | Posted July 16 - 2:31 p.m.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy moved to extinguish a political crisis on Thursday sparked by his dismissal of a reformist defense minister by tapping a security official for the post.
Russian anti-war politician says Kremlin is bent on stopping his election run
Reuters | Posted July 14 - 9:51 a.m.
Boris Nadezhdin, an anti-war Russian politician, accused authorities of trying to sabotage his campaign, after he was designated a "foreign agent" and questioned by police.
Is Russia returning to the Olympics?
Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News | Posted July 9 - 7:02 a.m.
Restrictions against Russia's participation in the Olympics, including those put in place after the country's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, have now been lifted by the International Olympic Committee.
Russian strikes kill 28 in Kyiv area, exposing Ukraine air-defense shortages
Valentyn Ogirenko and Vladyslav Smilianets, Reuters | Posted July 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Russia hammered Kyiv and the surrounding region with missiles and drones early on Monday, killing at least 28 people and exposing Ukraine's critical shortage of U.S.-made air-defense interceptors, officials said.
Russia bombards Kyiv in deadliest strike this year, killing at least 27 people
Gleb Garanich and Olena Harmash, Reuters | Posted July 2 - 5:08 p.m.
Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine's capital Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, killing at least 27 people, wounding scores more and damaging around 130 buildings.
G7 leaders express optimism for peace after Trump's 'very good' Zelenskyy meeting
Andreas Rinke, Michel Rose and Steve Holland, Reuters | Posted June 16 - 4:00 p.m.
President Donald Trump said Russia should make peace with Ukraine after a "very good" meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday, in comments that sparked cautious optimism.
Nearly three dozen injured, historic monastery on fire as Ukraine faces major Russian attacks
Jekaterina Golubkova, Reuters | Posted June 14 - 9:45 p.m.
Twenty people were injured and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and cultural history, caught fire following a major Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital.
Ukrainian refugee living in Utah finds hope through art
Daniel Woodruff, KSL | Posted June 13 - 10:34 p.m.
Olha Svieshnikova, a Ukrainian refugee living here in Utah, is getting attention for her artwork.
Ukraine police chief says Russia recruits teen girls to kill Ukrainian servicemen
Anna Pruchnicka, Reuters | Posted June 12 - 8:37 a.m.
Ukraine's police chief has accused Russia of recruiting teenage Ukrainian girls to kill Ukrainian military personnel, after the arrest of a 17-year-old suspected of murdering a serviceman.
Zelenskyy, in open letter, invites Putin to talks to end the war
Yuliia Dysa, Reuters | Posted June 4 - 10:03 p.m.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a letter to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday proposing to meet to agree an end to over four years of war.
4 dead as Russia launches major attack across Ukraine, authorities say
Reuters | Posted June 1 - 7:56 p.m.
Russian attacks across Ukraine killed four people in Dnipro and damaged two apartment buildings in the capital Kyiv early on Tuesday, authorities said, after days of warnings that Moscow was planning a major assault.
Macron says French Navy, backed by the UK, intercepted a sanctioned tanker from Russia
John Leicester, Associated Press | Posted June 1 - 8:36 a.m.
The French Navy, with UK support, intercepted another Russia-linked oil tanker under international sanctions. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia "considers such actions illegal."
Russia pounds Ukraine in heaviest wartime drone attack over 2 days
Olena Harmash and Yurii Kovalenko, Reuters | Posted May 14 - 8:40 a.m.
Russia carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities with hundreds of drones, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.
EU imposes sanctions over helping Russia abduct thousands of Ukrainian children
Lorne Cook, Associated Press | Posted May 11 - 12:37 p.m.
The European Union imposed sanctions on 16 officials accused of helping Russia abduct tens of thousands of Ukrainian children and force many to change their identities or face adoption.
Trump hopes for extension to agreed 3-day Ukraine-Russia ceasefire
Guy Faulconbridge, Mark Trevelyan and Steve Holland, Reuters | Posted May 9 - 4:18 p.m.
Russia and Ukraine confirmed Friday that they had agreed to a U.S.-brokered three-day ceasefire that will run from May 9 to May 11, and President Donald Trump said he hoped it would be extended.
Russia and Ukraine agree on 3-day US-mediated ceasefire
Guy Faulconbridge, Mark Trevelyan and Steve Holland, Reuters | Posted May 8 - 8:02 p.m.
Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that they had agreed to a three-day ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump that will run from May 9 to May 11.
Russia continues to violate Kyiv-proposed ceasefire, Zelenskyy says
Reuters | Posted May 7 - 9:30 a.m.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia continued to flout a Kyiv-proposed ceasefire on Thursday, adding that Ukraine would continue its long-range strikes if Russia carried on with its assaults.
Ukraine marks 40th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster under cloud of war
Dan Peleschuk, Reuters | Posted April 25 - 10:30 p.m.
Ukraine marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia's 4-year-old war could spark a repeat of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
EU approves a $106B loan package to help Ukraine after Hungary lifts its veto
Lorne Cook, Justin Spike And Karel Janicek, Associated Press | Posted April 23 - 12:04 p.m.
The European Union has approved a $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for the next two years.
President Zelenskyy accepts Roosevelt award for Ukraine's fight for freedom
Anthony Deutsch, Reuters | Posted April 16 - 5:33 p.m.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday held a moment of silence for victims of extensive overnight Russian air attacks as he accepted the International Four Freedoms Award.
Russian strikes kill 17 across Ukraine in worst attack this year
Anna Voitenko and Anna Pruchnicka, Reuters | Posted April 16 - 7:18 a.m.
Russia unleashed its deadliest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing at least 17 people.
Russian attacks on Ukraine's southeast kill seven, hit city bus
Reuters | Posted April 7 - 7:38 a.m.
Russian attacks on two cities in Ukraine's southeast on Tuesday killed seven people and injured more than two dozen others, officials said.
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of 'Easter escalation' as massive daytime attack kills 2
Yuliia Dysa and Max Hunder, Reuters | Posted April 3 - 10:16 p.m.
A large-scale daytime Russian strike killed at least two people in Ukraine on Friday, officials said, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced as an "Easter escalation."
