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Routed Ukrainian soldiers and panicked civilians were nearly impossible to find just west of the battleground town of Soledar on Sunday. Nevertheless, Russian state media claimed that the town’s capture had delivered the Kremlin a decisive victory and ripped a gaping hole in Ukrainian defenses. Kyiv Post reporters travelled through a chain of villages near Soledar, […]

The European Parliament called for imposing sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik over his destabilizing role in the country. President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik attends on parade in East Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jan. 9, 2023. (EPA Photo) “The EP reiterates its call for the adoption of targeted sanctions against destabilizing actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina […]

Saudi Arabia handed over command of an international naval task force to the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy on Wednesday. The Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) has been under the command of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces since July. Royal Saudi Naval Force mine-countermeasures vessel Al-Shaqra (MCMV 422) participates in a photo op during a 60-nation […]

Denys Monastyrsky, Yevheny Yenin, Yuriy Lubkovich. Design by Kyiv Post On early Wednesday morning, Jan. 18, in the Kyiv suburb of Brovary, a helicopter carrying nine people crashed. It fell near a residential building and a kindergarten. According to preliminary data, 17 people died, including 4 children. Among the dead are Minister of Internal Affairs […]

The death toll from a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Dnipro on Saturday, Jan. 14, has risen to 23, with dozens more wounded and unaccounted for. The dead includes a 15-year-old girl. Seven children, one just three-years-old, are among the wounded. Rescuers works on a residential building destroyed after a missile strike, […]

Polish President Andrzej Duda has announced the delivery of a company of modern German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. A new Leopard 2 A7V heavy battle tank stands during a visit by German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht to the Bundeswehr Army training grounds on February 07, 2022, in Munster, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) […]

Russia has once again replaced its top commander in Ukraine, putting army Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov in charge of its forces in the conflict, the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. Valery Gerasimov.Sergei Fadeichev / TASS   “Army General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, has been appointed Commander […]

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) appear to still be fighting in Ukraine’s eastern city of Soledar. They are reportedly battling to hold the city’s central district and supply routes to the west and south, contradicting the Kremlin’s claims that Ukrainian forces in the sector had been killed, surrounded or put to flight. Soledar pictured on Wednesday. Credit – Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov […]

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were withstanding “new and even tougher assaults” on Soledar on Monday, near the eastern city of Bakhmut that Moscow has been trying to capture for months. Read FRANCE 24’s live blog for the latest developments. All times are Paris time [GMT + 1]. Smoke rises after shelling in Ukraine’s […]

Key developments on Jan. 9: General Staff: Russia trying to advance in Donetsk Oblast, conducts offensive in Bakhmut direction Russian attack on Shevchenkove village kills 2, injures 6 people 15 injured, including 2-year-old child, in attack on Ochakiv in southern Ukraine Iran ‘may be contributing’ to Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine, says US A Ukrainian […]