Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to push ahead with reforms to meet European standards on the eve of a major summit, but some member states are cool on Kyiv’s full accession
Estimates of casualties on both sides during fierce fighting for the city have increased hugely since January as Kyiv’s allies urge abandoning its defense for a fresh counter-offensive in the south
Ukrainian crews are to receive an accelerated training course using simulators and real combat vehicles at a military facility in Zaragoza
Bucharest and Budapest have called for changes to a law limiting minority language teaching in schools and pointed out Kyiv’s EU membership bid rests on ethnic tolerance
Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz are attempting to align on energy and military matters but cracks are beginning to show on the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty
Having convinced Germany and the US to transfer Leopard and Abrams tanks, Kyiv has now turned attention to its depleted and outgunned Air Force
The supply of Leopard 2s and Abrams, until now considered a red line, could pave the way for the future transfer of further equipment such as fighter jets
The decision comes after Germany agreed to send 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from its own stocks
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described German and US intentions as ‘a rather disastrous plan’
Several senior Ukrainian officials lost their jobs Tuesday in a corruption scandal plaguing President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government as it grapples with the nearly 11-month-old Russian invasion
The country has become a leading advocate in the European Union for giving military aid to help Ukraine prevail 11 months after the Kremlin’s forces invaded
The Ukrainian president held an emotional meeting Saturday morning with the families of those who died when the aircraft slammed into a kindergarten building
Ukrainian officers and soldiers on the eastern front say it is impossible to liberate more Russian-occupied territory without German Leopards and American Abrams
Pressure is mounting on Germany to unlock delivery of its Leopard 2 tanks while defense officials meet to discuss taking military aid to the next level
One child was killed and 11 more injured when the aircraft hit a kindergarten in the Brovary suburb of the capital. An investigation has been launched by the security services
The government in Kyiv insists that the future of the war against Russia depends on NATO sending more potent weaponry
At least 73 people were wounded and 39 people had been rescued as of Sunday afternoon. The city government in Dnipro said 43 people were reported missing
Ukraine’s officials have expressed mistrust of Moscow’s proposal for a 36-hour cessation of hostilities, but not observing a truce could play against the country in international public opinion
The Russian leader issued the instruction after a petition from Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, but Kyiv has dismissed it as ‘a cynical trap and an element of propaganda’
Kyiv is using less expensive mobile units – rather than surface-to-air missile systems – in order to stop the bombardment by Russia’s unmanned devices
Estimates of the number of Russian fatalities range from 63 to 400. Reports suggest the HIMARS attack targeted a concentration of cellphone signals at a temporary barracks
In one of the biggest coordinated air strikes of the war, Moscow sent a barrage of missiles and drones against civilian targets, cutting power to 90% of Lviv and 40% of Kyiv
For the first time the Orthodox Church has permitted its faithful to celebrate on December 25, in addition to the traditional January 7, signaling a move away from the Moscow Patriarchate
Moscow says Washington’s decision to provide the advanced missile system to Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government is a ‘provocation’ and described them as ‘legitimate targets’
A Ukrainian soldier – protecting a power station that supplies Kyiv – used the limited means at his disposal to shoot down one of the Kremlin’s devastating projectiles
The Kremlin has flatly refused any discussion of a truce after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Moscow to withdraw its troops at a G7 conference
Representatives of the invaded country on Wednesday accepted the European Parliament’s highest honorary award in the name of citizens ‘who are not just fighting a war of independence but fighting a war of values’
