Donetsk is one of four regions of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed when the invasion first escalated in 2022, making it one of the key battlegrounds for the war.

Russian troops appeared to have made inroads into Ukranian territory on Christmas Eve, as well as striking the city of Kharkiv.

Human Rights First has been documenting human rights issues in Ukraine since Russia’s 2014 invasion. Since the full-scale ...

In December 2024, Ukraine signed memorandums to receive tranches of a loan backed by Russian immobilized assets (ERA loan) and received financial aid from the EU, IMF and the US through the World Bank ...

2:15 Putin says Russia should have invaded Ukraine ‘earlier’ Russia launched a massive missile and drone barrage targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Wednesday, striking a thermal ...

Meanwhile, Ukraine says more Russian drones attacked after a Christmas Day offensive. 'Truce is path to nowhere', Lavrov says Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has just been speaking to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed to bring more "destruction" to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone attack on the central Russian city of Kazan a day earlier. Russia accused Ukraine ...

After close to three years of war, the situation has flipped. Felos says she has nothing to return to in Ukraine. Originally from a Russian-speaking area of eastern Ukraine, the war broke up what ...

RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

Here are the key developments on the 1,036th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Moscow again struck Ukraine’s energy ...

THE LONG, thin pulsejet engine comes to life with a thunderous racket, prompting everyone in the garage to take a step back. The missile is called the Trembita, after the Ukrainian alpine horn. It ...