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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 […]

50 service members – 33 officers and 17 privates and sergeants – have been returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity. “Another successful prisoner swap. We returned 50 service members home. These are guys from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Territorial Defense Forces, National Guard, Border Guard Service, Navy, Special Operations Forces,” Head of the President’s […]

TEHRAN – The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, met with a group of prominent Iranian women on Wednesday and addressed a variety of issues related to women. At the beginning of his speech, Ayatollah Khamenei expressed satisfaction with the holding of a meeting that is exclusively for women. “God willing, the […]

Boris Bondarev, a former member of Russia’s delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, now lives modestly in Switzerland with his wife and their kitten — and spends a lot of time on Twitter. Boris Bondarev.Courtesy photo The ex-diplomat is unable to return to Russia after publicly quitting his job in May when he said the invasion […]