• Sweden, Estonia, and Finland pledge to increase spending on weapons purchases from US – Europe live
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte said he expected further pledges, noting that $2bn already had been committed through the mechanism Sergiy Petrovich Lysak has been appointed as the head of the Odesa city military administration, as...
  • Ukraine war briefing: Poland minister shows Shahed drone and warns of ‘deep’ Russian threat
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in London, urges drone wall and three-year plan to back Ukraine; Odesa mayor’s ‘citizenship suspended’. What we know on day 1,330 Continue reading...
  • Lecornu backs delaying rise in French retirement age until after 2027 presidential election – as it happened
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    PM says that law increasing age to 64 will be put on pause in bid to stave off losing a no-confidence vote that would bring down his government French PM suspends Macron’s pension plan before no-confidence vote The Kremlin said on...
  • Ukraine war briefing: Crimea oil depot burns as Russia feels effects on fuel supply
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Glide bombs knock out power supply and hit hospital in Kharkiv; Zelenskyy lining up Trump meeting with Tomahawks hot topic. What we know on day 1,329 An oil terminal at Feodosia in the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula was burning on...
  • ‘After the reading, the poets hold each other’: what happens when Ukraine’s largest literary festival comes under Russian attack
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Fiona Benson was invited to Lviv’s BookForum by Ukrainian poet-soldier Artur Dron’. She recounts falling in love with the city and its thriving literary culture, before an air raid siren sounds I had been working on Exeter University’s...
  • French political crisis continues as Macron blames rivals for ‘sense of disorder’– as it happened
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    President, attending Gaza summit in Egypt, reiterates he will not step down as opponents lodge no-confidence motions in the government. This live blog is closed National Assembly president Yaël Braun-Pivet has welcomed the appointment of...
  • Ukraine war briefing: Moscow voices ‘extreme concern’ at Trump threat to send Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv
    Monday, October 13, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    US president says he may warn Russian counterpart ‘look, if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks’. What we know on day 1,328 Donald Trump has threatened to send longe-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine...
  • Ukraine war briefing: Latest refinery strike shows ‘no safe places in Russia’s deep rear’
    Sunday, October 12, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Bashneft oil refinery in Ufa is 1,400km from Ukrainian border; Zelenskyy says Trump can repeat Middle East peace success in Ukraine. What we know on day 1,327 Ukrainian drones have struck Russia’s Bashneft oil refinery in Ufa, 1,400km...
  • Zelenskyy urges Trump to use Gaza ceasefire momentum to broker peace in Ukraine
    Saturday, October 11, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Ukrainian leader discussed request for Tomahawk cruise missiles in phone call with US president Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, urged Donald Trump to use the momentum of the Gaza ceasefire to broker peace in Ukraine, as the two...
  • ‘Our job is to maximise their losses’: how Ukraine’s forces attempt to claw back against Russian advances
    Saturday, October 11, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Along Donetsk’s frontline, a small counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops aims to help change perceptions about the war among Kyiv’s western allies As Donald Trump prepared to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska in August, Russia launched an...
  • Ukraine war briefing: Power restored to Kyiv after Russia drone attacks
    Saturday, October 11, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Zelenskyy says attacks targeted energy infrastructure as winter looms; boy killed as drones and missiles hit Zaporizhzhia. What we know on day 1,326 Power was restored to 270,000 consumers in Kyiv after attacks from Russia knocked it...
  • The week around the world in 20 pictures
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    The ceasefire deal, Russian strikes on Kyiv, protests in Madagascar and Paris fashion week: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading...
  • Melania Trump says eight Ukrainian children seized by Russians have been reunited with their families
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    First lady had pleaded for children in letter that Donald Trump delivered to Russian president at meeting in Alaska Melania Trump said on Friday that eight Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families after ongoing talks...
  • The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine?
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Exclusive: Leaked files offer a glimpse of the ex-prime minister’s relationship with Christopher Harborne As he boarded the night train to Ukraine, Boris Johnson had the usual entourage of aides and bodyguards – plus the man who had...
  • ‘Massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine capital causes widespread blackout
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    At least 20 injured after hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles target energy infrastructure in Kyiv A massive Russian drone and missile strike has wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, plunging Ukraine’s capital into darkness early on...
  • Russian strike on energy sites plunges Kyiv into darkness – video
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Power cuts were triggered in districts across Ukraine's capital by "massive attack", as Russia pummelled the city's infrastructure, cutting off water and energy supplies and triggering a fire in a high-rise apartment building. Nine...
  • Ukraine war briefing: 23 children and adolescents brought out of Russian-occupied areas
    Friday, October 10, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Rescue was carried out under Zelenskyy’s ‘Bring Kids Back UA’ programme; Trump ‘stepping up pressure’ to end war. What we know on day 1,325 Twenty-three Ukrainian children and adolescents have been brought out of Russian-occupied areas...
  • Truly, madly, deeply: Trump’s desire for a Nobel peace prize is driving diplomacy
    Thursday, October 9, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    The US president’s fervid pursuit of the award is believed to have been a key motivator in brokering peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize Never before has a Nobel peace...
  • Zelenskyy says he will nominate Trump for Nobel peace prize if he secures Ukraine ceasefire – as it happened
    Thursday, October 9, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    This blog is now closed, you can read more of our European news coverage here Below is a video published by the Guardian showing Ukrainian firefighters tackling blazes in burning shipping containers after a Russian drone attack injured...
  • Ukrainian firefighters tackle blaze after Russian drone attack in Odesa – video
    Thursday, October 9, 2025 from World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com
    Ukrainian emergency services released footage showing firefighters tackling blazes in shipping containers after Russian drone strikes injured at least five people in Odesa. The attack cut power to 30,000 people and damaged the city’s...
  • “My Dream is for the Empire to Disintegrate”: Wartime Theater in Lviv
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    Theater, like everything in Ukraine, has been transformed as a result of the war. At first, performances were abandoned in order to house refugees. Inevitably the artists began to create performances unique to a culture literally...
  • OPEC+ Agrees to Keep Output Levels Unchanged
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    Major oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed Sunday to maintain their current output levels in a climate of uncertainty and ahead of fresh sanctions against Moscow coming into force next week. The representatives...
  • Microsoft Says Russia Will Intensify Cyber Attacks on Ukraine, Allies This Winter
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    This winter, Russia will boost its cyber activities in an attempt to influence countries that support Ukraine. That’s according to Bloomberg, which refers to Microsoft, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Moscow will...
  • More Than 500 Ukrainian Localities Without Power
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    More than 500 Ukrainian localities remained without power Sunday following weeks of Russian airstrikes on the electric grid, an interior ministry official said. “The enemy continues to attack the country’s essential...
  • Russian Propaganda Promoting Narratives of NATO Exhaustion
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    This week, through foreign speakers and media, Kremlin propaganda attempted to promote a narrative about the exhaustion of NATO Allies and the corresponding limited stockpile of weapons they could provide to Ukraine. The Center for...
  • Hot Dogs, Coffee, Bolster Fight in Eastern Ukraine
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    On the roads leading to the front in Ukraine’s war-torn east, every morning begins with a familiar scene — soldiers filling up trucks, sipping steaming coffee and catching up between bites of fresh hot dogs. Wrapped in buns,...
  • IAEA to Organize Missions to Khmelnytsky, Rivne NPPs Next Week
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) carried out a nuclear safety and security mission to the Pivdennoukrainska Nuclear Power Plant (PNPP) this week as it steps up its efforts to help prevent a nuclear accident during the...
  • Austin: Putin’s War is Cause, Not Result of NATO Expansion
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    The war started by Russian President Vladimir Putin is not the result, but the cause of NATO expansion, according to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. According to Ukrinform, he said this in his remarks at the Reagan National Defense...
  • Zelensky: Price Cap Level on Russian Oil ‘Not Serious’
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    A $60 price cap set on Russian oil agreed by the EU, G7 and Australia is not “serious” because it is “quite comfortable” for Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday. “Russia has already...
  • British Defence Intelligence Update Ukraine – 04 December 2022
    Sunday, December 4, 2022 from
    Recent polling suggests that Russian public support for the ‘special military operation’ is falling significantly. An independent Russian media outlet has claimed access to data collected by Russia’s Federal Protective...
  • Russian attack of all of Ukraine: live updates
    Thursday, February 24, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    Verified ways to help the Ukrainian Army 9 a.m. “Town of Shchastia (Luhansk region), which was attacked by the Russian aggressor, has been recaptured. Russian equipment was destroyed and about 50 enemies were killed” —...
  • This is an act of war: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on the new wave of Russian aggression
    Thursday, February 24, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has announced the beginning of a new wave of aggression against Ukraine. The purpose of Russia’s offensive military operation is to destroy the Ukrainian state, seize Ukrainian...
  • In speech parallel to UNSC meeting, Putin declares war on Ukraine
    Thursday, February 24, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    In an address aired simultaneously with the UNSC meeting convened by Ukraine in response to Putin’s proxy “republics” in Donbas appealing to Russia to help fight Ukraine, President Putin has announced the start of a...
  • Why Putin is setting Russia up to lose far more than Moscow did in 1991
    Thursday, February 24, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    For almost three decades, Vladimir Putin has been saying and many in Russia and the West have followed him in this that the Soviet Union came apart because the Bolsheviks set up union republics and gave them the right to leave, a right...
  • Putin’s Big Lie: the “Donbas genocide” and “impending Ukrainian attack”
    Thursday, February 24, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    The narrative of “genocide” The narrative of “genocide” and “Russophobia” in Ukraine is regularly reiterated to Russian audiences at political talk shows at state-owned TV and speeches of Russian...
  • Putin’s plan A failed, but there is the no less dangerous plan B: Kyiv defense experts
    Thursday, February 24, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    СDS experts highlight that Putin’s public position regarding Ukraine morphed from seeking a favorable agreement with Ukraine as a foreign country in 2020 to chauvinist claims in 2022 that Ukraine is a historical error that...
  • Daily review: Ukraine declares state of emergency, Russian proxies ask Russia to help fight Ukraine
    Thursday, February 24, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    Past 24 hours in the war zone On Feb 22 and the following night, the Russian occupation forces launched 112 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol sectors, including heavy artillery, reported JFO. 1 Ukrainian...
  • Russia’s Donbas proxies shelled Russian territory and their own civilians, SBU intercept claims
    Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has published a video claiming to show the “conversations between militants of the so-called L/DNR.” The audio records show that the Russian occupation forces keep shelling the Ukrainian...
  • In memoriam: Donbas dissident Dziuba, jailed by USSR for challenging Russian imperialism
    Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    Dziuba’s significance for Ukraine is immeasurable. Dissident, statesman, one of the main architects of Ukrainian Independence, co-founder of the People’s Movement of Ukraine, the second Minister of Culture of Ukraine,...
  • Ukraine to sanction Duma deputies for recognizing “LNR/DNR”
    Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from EUROMAIDAN PRESS
    The MPs proposed this batch of sanctions amid the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine and in connection with the appeal of the State Duma – Russia’s lower chamber of the parliament – to President...
  • Tariffs for heating, hot water not to increase until end of heating season - Zelensky
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    Tariffs for heating and hot water for the population will not increase until the end of the heating season, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said.
  • Experts of Venice Commission visit Kyiv to study provisions of draft law on transitional period - Kostin
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    Experts of the Venice Commission visited Kyiv to study the provisions of the draft law On the Foundations of State Policy for the Transition Period, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy and Ukraine's representative in the...
  • Public activists consider investigation of illegal imprisonment of Ukrainians during armed conflict in eastern Ukraine ineffective
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    KYIV. Sept 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The public organization Eastern-Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives believes that investigations of crimes related to the illegal imprisonment of Ukrainians during the armed conflict in eastern...
  • Razumkov's recall from post of Rada chairman not raised at Servant of People meetings - speaker of faction
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    The topic of dismissal the leadership of the parliament was not raised at the meetings of the Servant of the People faction, speaker of the faction Yulia Paliichuk wrote in her telegram channel.
  • Arakhamia requests signatures for removing Razumkov from post of Chairman of Verkhovna Rada
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    Head of the parliamentary faction "Servant of the People" David Arakhamia has requested signature lists to remove Dmytro Razumkov from the post of chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the speaker himself said.
  • Ukrainian soldier dies in Donbas on Thursday - JFO HQ
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    One Ukrainian serviceman was killed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday in shelling by Russia-led forces, according to a summary on the Joint Forces Operations page.
  • Press conference on the launch of an all-Ukrainian educational project to develop the capabilities of specialists in child affairs services
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    On Thursday, September 30, at 12.30, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host press conference on the launch of an all-Ukrainian educational project to develop the capabilities of specialists in child affairs...
  • High gas prices, tariffs shifted to local govts bring situation with heating closer to critical – Klitschko
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    Kyiv's heating infrastructure is technically ready for the beginning of the heating season, but high gas prices and tariffs shifted to local governments make the situation close to critical, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said during a...
  • Ukraine registers 11,757 new COVID-19 cases, 194 deaths in past 24 hours
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    Ukraine has registered 11,757 new cases of coronavrus (COVID-19) and 194 deaths in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Health Ministry's press service said in a statement on Thursday.
  • Seven years of impunity: what is wrong with case investigation of the Ukrainian prisoners in Donbas?
    Thursday, September 30, 2021 from Interfax-Ukraine
    On Thursday, September 30, at 11.00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host press conference entitled "Seven years of impunity: what is wrong with case investigation of the Ukrainian prisoners in Donbas?"...
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