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Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman urged international organizations Sunday to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv had launched an incursion in August.

(AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced hope Friday that the war with Russia will end next year, speaking during a visit to Berlin to ask for sustained military support. As Ukraine faces a gruelling third winter at war, Zelensky

Emmanuel Macron inspected the training of Ukrainian troops at a military camp in eastern France amid growing domestic political issues.

Ukrainian recruiters are reportedly roaming the streets of the country in a desperate effort to bolster the ranks of the military as the war with Russia continues to sap the native population.

Ukrainian forces said they shot down a Russian fighter plane on Saturday while Russia claimed it made gains in Ukraine’s east.

Russian prosecutors asked for a seven-year sentence in the trial of a U.S. citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine against Russia, Russian news agencies reported Saturday.

Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding battle, military officials said Wednesday.

Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical center in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least nine people on Saturday morning, officials said.

Ukrainian troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat as they drove Russian forces out of a huge processing plant in the town of Vovchansk in Ukraine’s northeast that had been occupied for four months, officials said Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday will visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory before meeting with Kamala Harris.

Russian strikes hit high-rise apartment blocks in Ukraine´s city of Kharkiv, leaving dozens wounded in a second nighttime attack this week.

A blaze tore through a Russian arms depot deep inside the country, triggering explosions and the closure of a major highway, after Ukraine overnight launched over 100 drones at Russia and occupied Crimea, Russian news reports and the Defense Ministry said.

Two people died in a missile attack on Ukraine’s Odesa, local officials said, as Moscow and Kyiv exchanged drone and missile attacks.

The head of NATO’s military committee said Saturday that Ukraine has the solid legal and military right to strike deep inside Russia to gain combat advantage.

Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 158 Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over Moscow, the defense ministry said.

Ukrainian President Zelensky fired the commander of the air force Friday after a Russian bombardment destroyed an F-16 and killed the pilot.

Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure, killing at least three people.

Five people died in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday, while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine, leaving one journalist missing and two others injured.

Ukraine admitted that it is actively using American-made bombs to strike within Russia’s Kursk region amid its counter-invasion.

Czech President Petr Pavel said that attacking the partially German-owned Nord Stream pipelines would have been a “legitimate” target for Ukraine.

Some new Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire at the enemy. Others, according to commanders and fellow fighters, struggle to assemble weapons.

Moscow came under one of the largest attacks yet by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported.

Ukraine has destroyed a bridge in Russia’s Kursk region and struck a second one nearby, less than two weeks into its cross-border incursion.

Germany is planning to halt future aid to Ukraine amid Berlin’s budget struggles, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reports.

A Russian missile strike sparked a blaze in the Ukrainian city of Sumy Saturday, while Ukrainian forces continued to push into Russian territory.

Authorities in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk on Friday urged civilians to speed up their evacuation because the Russian army is quickly closing in.

Thousands of Ukrainian troops are taking part in a major incursion into Russian territory, aiming to destabilise the country.

Moscow on Saturday mounted a “counter-terror operation” to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict.

Ukraine’s newly arrived F-16 fighter jets were put on display by President Zelensky, who said the planes will boost the country’s war effort.

Ukraine has sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours amid a surge in long-range attacks on Russian targets.

Ukraine on Sunday said it struck an oil depot in southern Russia that supplies the Kremlin’s troops as Russia struck Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

The European Union, enraged over Viktor Orbán’s diplomatic efforts for peace in Ukraine, has punished Hungary by cancelling a series of meetings in Budapest

Vitali Klitschko suggested that Zelensky hold a referendum to secure “popular legitimacy” for either ending or continuing the war with Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his country’s thanks to President Joe Biden after he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race.

A Ukrainian former lawmaker, Iryna Farion, has died after being shot in the street by an unknown assailant in a suspected assassination.

At least six people were killed and three more injured in Ukraine after continued Russian missile strikes.