Kiev

Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in 2022. EL PAÍS visited the exclusion zone and heard the stories of those who resist there

The Russian invasion has devastated the Ukrainian economy, and the budget for 2026 anticipates additional borrowing for this year equivalent to 18% of GDP

Kyiv’s military personnel are operating drones from Libya to sink ships carrying Russian fuel and to support anti-Kremlin governments in Africa

Russia has carried out nearly 5,000 attacks targeting Ukraine’s railway system and caused damage to more than 25,000 pieces of infrastructure

The Public Prosecutor’s Office estimates that the country will face more than 216,000 potential cases, while some experts warn of a lack of human and material resources

The main obstacle facing Kyiv is that it has a territory roughly 30 times larger than the Jewish State

Under the Russian invasion, Kyiv has positioned itself at the forefront of the use and downing of drones like those now employed by Iran to respond to attacks by the US and Israel

Police and family members explain how, desperate during the occupation by Putin’s troops, this man went out to get fuel and ended up being shot twice in the infamous massacre in the Ukrainian town four years ago

New technologies help calculate the number of casualties, estimated at up to nearly two million, despite attempts by Kyiv and Moscow to conceal them

The mass production of these unmanned attack aircraft, which cost far less than the missiles that intercept them, gives the Islamic Republic’s army a difficult weapon to counter

The Franco-German political scientist, who heads the Research Division of the Atlantic Alliance, has the mission of anticipating conflicts in order to try to prevent them

Ksenia Koldin, having just turned 18, managed to recover her brother after he had been in a re-education camp and was taken in by a Russian family

The full-scale invasion marks its fourth anniversary with a stalemate on the battlefield and Washington pushing for a ceasefire agreement

The battlefield has become a ‘transparent’ zone, populated by sensors and modern devices, where everything is visible and the intensive use of drones increases casualties

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the politician calls on the EU to do more for Ukraine and to reassess its relationship with Cuba

‘Life is divided into a before and an after,’ says one of the thousands of soldiers who return without legs or arms and who has founded a rehabilitation center

A resident with a 39-degree fever, another who won’t move from under several layers of blankets, apartments at 2ºC... This is how people survive in the worst winter since the start of the Russian invasion

The countries of northern and western Europe now account for 95% of support for Kyiv

The veteran politician, who is preparing his bid for the State Duma after being barred from the 2024 presidential elections, seeks to ‘overcome the post-imperial syndrome and bring Russia back into Europe’

Troieshchyna is the hardest-hit Kyiv neighborhood in the latest wave of Russian strikes that has left millions without basic resources in the depths of winter

Since 2022, life in the Ukrainian capital has been changing at the pace set by Russian troops and missiles

Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ marks 1,418 days on January 12

Signs of US hostility, such as threats to Greenland, sanctions against prominent figures, and the new national security strategy, are causing disquiet in a continent still dependent on Washington

The weapon used against Ukraine is capable of firing six projectiles with conventional or nuclear warheads

Kyiv faked the death of a Russian far-right activist fighting in its ranks against the Kremlin in order to expose several enemy agents

Volodymyr Zelenskiy is hoping the US president will run out of patience with Vladimir Putin as his military prepares for a prolonged war