President Zelenskyi announced Friday the firing of all the heads of regional military draft boards, part of his crackdown on corruption since the outbreak of Moscow’s war in more than 17 months ago
That charge Tuesday came as the death toll from two Russian missile strikes that slammed into the downtown area of a Ukrainian city climbed to seven
The deadly attack came just a day after officials from around 40 countries gathered in Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement for the war in Ukraine
Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative puts the Ukrainian agricultural sector on the ropes. The crops are piling up in the silos that Moscow bombs, while the price of transporting goods by land has multiplied
The Russian barrage came after a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian tanker in the Black Sea near Crimea late Friday
Officials from each side denounce devious plots being prepared by the enemy, which never materialize. They claim victories that can’t be confirmed and stay quiet about defeats
The strike on Novorossiysk marks the first time a commercial Russian port has been targeted in the nearly 18-month-old conflict
The capital of western Ukraine, a short distance from NATO territory, is still reeling from the July 6 air strike, which killed 10 people and wounded 48
For both Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, backing off Crimea is hardly an option
The Ukrainian president said the dead included a 10-year-old girl and her mother. The attack left 75 people wounded
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
EL PAÍS visits the network of medical stations that mark out the Zaporizhzhia front, where hundreds of wounded soldiers are operated on every day
The meeting will be held in August, and Moscow is not invited to participate
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a law moving the holiday, citing ‘the desire of all Ukrainians to live their lives with their own tradition’
EL PAÍS accompanied the 35th Ukrainian Marine Artillery Brigade, shortly before its soldiers retook the town on the southern front of the Donetsk province
This week, Russia has attacked Ukrainian ports key to sending grain to the world and declared large swaths of the Black Sea dangerous for shipping
Kremlin’s forces are expanding their targets following three days of bombardment of the region’s Black Sea port infrastructure
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
Near the Russian trenches in the east of the country, there’s a lake with a beach where civilians and soldiers try to forget the war
It’s the end of an accord that the U.N. and Turkey brokered to allow food to leave the Black Sea region after Russia invaded its neighbor
Zelenskyy wanted firmer commitments on his country’s path toward NATO membership, but Biden didn’t want to take that step at this stage of Ukraine’s war with Russia.
Zelenskiy charges that the allies’ agreement is undefined and warns it could benefit Russia
The initiative, which is supported by France, Germany and the United Kingdom, involves a commitment to continue to supply Kyiv with weapons, but does not set down a concrete timetable for the country’s accession into the Alliance, which is still a source of division
Speaking in a video from Snake Island released Saturday, Zelenskyy honored the Ukrainian soldiers who fought for the island and all other defenders of the country
The Wagner militias’ uprising has torn the veil and broken the power vertical. The president now appears to be weak and fragile, a discredited loser, fodder for a coup d’état, and even an assassination
The victim’s colleagues say the best way to honor her legacy is by investigating the crimes committed by the Russian invaders