President Zelensky has been pushing for this moment for months. When it finally came, he was a little coy. Strikes are not made with words, he said in his nightly address: “Such things are not announced, missiles speak for themselves”. President Biden has given Ukraine permission to use long range missiles supplied by Washington to
Much of the world is following the U.S. presidential election, but probably nowhere more closely than in Ukraine. Ukrainians worry what a change in the White House would mean for their survival.
The Biden administration says it is tracking thousands of North Korean troops in Russia and, according to U.S. intelligence reports, those troops could be involved in combat with Ukrainians soon.
BBC Budva is a popular holiday destination on the Adriatic coast “Our people respect the Russian and Ukrainian people,” says Savvo Dobrovic. “I simply haven’t noticed any bad relations.” It sounds like a recipe for tension and confrontation: tens of thousands of people from opposing sides in a bitter, protracted war descending on a small
Ukraine’s Kursk incursion was aimed at forcing Russia to divert troops from the frontline, Kyiv’s top commander admitted. However, Moscow didn’t take the bait offered by Kyiv, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said. “Of course, the enemy understands this, so it continues to focus its main efforts on the Pokrovsk direction,” the top general added.Syrskyi described
SERGEY BOBOK/AFP Workers salvage a sculpture of Hryhoriy Skovoroda from his destroyed museum It was late at night on 7 May 2022 when a Russian missile hit a museum that was once home to Ukraine’s 18th-Century poet and philosopher Hryhory Skovoroda. “The roof was completely blown off, the walls are burnt and only Skovoroda’s statue
Some Ukrainians are fleeing an unpopular conscription drive for troops. Ukrainian guards are on their trail. NPR’s Joanna Kakissis takes us to one escape route along a river in Western Ukraine. (Image credit: Florent Vergnes)
A new law has come into force in Hungary which threatens to push thousands of Ukrainian refugees on to the streets or back to Ukraine. The regulation restricts state support for Ukrainians to those who come from parts of Ukraine directly affected by the fighting caused by Russia’s invasion. Thirteen regions in Ukraine are on