Crimea

Valerii Zaluzhnyi predicts that there will be no progress for at least a year and has compared the situation at the front to World War I

With schools demolished by shelling and students evacuated, educators continue to give classes from basements or air raid shelters to provide a small sense of normalcy

Russia targeted Ukraine with drones in another major attack early Thursday as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy traveled to Spain to rally support from Western allies at a summit of around 50 European leaders

Last July, Russia broke the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement signed in summer 2022 with Turkey and the UN that allowed Ukrainian grain to be exported to international markets

Kyiv’s forces are making the most of newly added long-range weapons to periodically punish Russian positions in the Black Sea peninsula

Kyiv’s Special Operation Forces said on the Telegram messaging app that its strike on the main building of the Russian navy in the port city of Sevastopol had wounded 105 people

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have intensified their operations against the invader’s positions in the illegally annexed territory

Russia says Ukraine has launched another missile attack on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet

Images posted on social media showed large plumes of smoke over the headquarters in the port city of Sevastopol

Populist and far-right parties are capitalizing on the discontent and fatigue of their citizens in the middle of electoral periods in Slovakia and Poland

The Ukrainian military has confirmed a change in tactics in their advance to reduce the number of casualties. Officers are asking for more time to obtain results in the counteroffensive

The Ukrainian military has few alternatives to the SpaceX communication system but concerns have been raised after the billionaire acknowledged he had refused to sanction its use over Crimea

Kyiv is producing a new generation of weapons, including cruise missiles, to strike beyond its borders and reduce dependence on its international allies

The attack early Wednesday was in the port city of Sevastopol, which serves as the main base for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. It took place as Moscow launched drones against southern Ukraine’s Odesa region

The Kyiv security services claim responsibility for the sabotage, operations that demonstrate their ability to infiltrate enemy territory

Almost 18 months after the start of the war, a humanitarian corridor between the Russian city of Belgorod and Sumi in northeastern Ukraine opens a window of opportunity for trapped citizens

The city of Lviv has launched an innovative idea to welcome pregnant women or women with young children fleeing the east of the country. The objective is to keep them away from violence in their first months of motherhood

The Center for Civil Liberties has documented 4,000 people arrested during the invasion, a number the Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, puts as high as 20,000

The strike on Novorossiysk marks the first time a commercial Russian port has been targeted in the nearly 18-month-old conflict

For both Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, backing off Crimea is hardly an option

The latest model of the attack aircraft, which has been deployed amid heavy fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region, has been upgraded with weapons capable of evading anti-missile defenses

Russian forces meanwhile struck port infrastructure on the Danube River in southern Ukraine with exploding drones early Monday

The Kremlin-appointed head of the illegally annexed territory said there were no immediate reports of casualties from Saturday’s strike

A decade ago, 75% of visitors to the Black Sea commercial and tourist capital were Russian. Now the city is the main target of Moscow’s bombs

Moscow has launched attacks on grain infrastructure in Odesa after ending export pact and as ‘retaliation’ for latest strike on the Kerch Bridge, a key element in Russia’s supply lines

The Russian Defense Ministry said it destroyed facilities preparing ‘terror attacks’ against Russia involving maritime drones, as well as Ukrainian fuel depots

Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the strike was carried out by two Ukrainian maritime drones. The attack was the second major strike on the bridge since October, when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections