Ukraine, US Peace Talks in Berlin End
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Ukraine’s gloves are off in its energy war with Russia. How much can it increase the pressure?
Ukraine said Thursday its long-range drones had struck a major offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea this week, signalling an expansion of its target list in a mounting campaign to cut off Russian energy revenues funding its war.
Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."
In the early months of the invasion, in 2022, the Russians tried to suffocate Ukraine’s economy by imposing a naval blockade of its ports. About 20 million tons of grain got stuck in the port city of Odesa, causing global food prices to spike and raising fears of famine in parts of Africa and the Middle East that rely on supplies from Ukraine.
The Kremlin says any peace deal must cede to Russia the entire eastern Donbas region, including territory Ukraine still controls — a nonstarter for Kyiv.
A US peace proposal that became public last month was criticised for being tilted heavily toward Moscow because it granted some of the Kremlin's core demands that Kyiv has rejected as nonstarters. , World News,
Persistent instability in Ukraine’s electrical grid continues to challenge nuclear safety during the military conflict, at times causing disruptions in the availability of off-site power for the country’s main nuclear sites,
Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are ongoing, and while those on the front lines are following negotiations closely, a Colorado Springs man said the focus of many has shifted toward survival.
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'Time to update' Ukraine's defense documents, Zelensky says after meeting top military, intelligence officials
President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov on Nov. 29 and ordered a revision of Ukraine's core defense documents. The move comes as Russia intensifies offensive operations in ...
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UPDATE 3-Ukraine offers bond swap on $3.2 billion GDP warrants in bid to emerge from default
The offer, which needs to be accepted by holders representing at least 75% of the warrants maturing in 2041, would see the instruments swapped for cash and new bonds, dubbed C Bonds, that will mature between 2030 and 2032,
Russia has launched one of the deadliest overnight aerial attacks of the war so far on Ukraine. It comes as US and Ukrainian officials meet in Florida for talks on ending the war. Follow the latest.
The attack on the tanker in the Black Sea marks the third sea drone strike in two weeks that Ukraine has carried out on the shadow fleet.