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Hundreds of Ukrainians marched through the capital on Friday, demanding that the government veto a bill that families of missing soldiers say could lead to their loved ones being prematurely declared dead. The protesters gathered to oppose Bill No. 13646, which addresses the legal status of missing...

The war in Ukraine, now well into its fifth year, “is becoming deadlier by the day”, a senior UN official warned in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. “In the last week alone, we witnessed one of the largest aerial bombardments of Ukraine since the Russian Federation’s full-scale...

The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building rose Friday to 24, including three teenagers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he led the mourning for one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war. The cruise missile hit the...

Thirty-four European states plus Australia, Costa Rica and the European Union said, on Friday, May 15, that they would join a future special tribunal for Ukraine to prosecute Russia over its invasion of the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed an accord with the Council of Europe...

Russia resumed strikes on Ukraine as a three-day truce expired on Tuesday, May 12, attacking the capital with drones and killing one person in the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian authorities said. The Russian military, meanwhile, said it had shot down 27 Ukrainian drones after the...

Russian attacks killed 21 people in cities across Ukraine on Tuesday, May 5, as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Moscow's "utter cynicism" for launching deadly strikes while seeking a truce to stage its May 9 patriotic parade. The attacks—hitting the cities of Zaporizhzhia, Kramatorsk and...

Russia on Monday, May 4, declared a unilateral ceasefire with Ukraine between May 8-9, when Moscow marks its annual World War II Victory Day commemorations, and threatened a "massive missile strike" on Kyiv if Ukraine violated it. Ukraine responded by declaring its own truce from May 6, saying it...

Ukraine's military command accused Russia of repeatedly violating a truce to mark the Orthodox Easter Saturday, April 11, with nearly 470 incidents ranging from air strikes and drone attacks to shelling. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the ceasefire on Thursday, more than a week after...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has announced a 32-hour ceasefire for Orthodox Easter, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirming that Ukraine will honor it. The Kremlin said on Thursday that the pause in fighting will begin at 4 pm Moscow time on Saturday and run until midnight on Sunday...

Cameroon said on Monday that Russia has confirmed the deaths of 16 soldiers in Ukraine, according to a memo addressed to the Russian Embassy in the central African country. In the memo addressed to the embassy, the country’s foreign affairs ministry acknowledged the death of the Cameroonian soldiers...