Its freight lines sustain Ukraine’s embattled industry in the east, ship cargo throughout the country and carry crucial grain exports to the border. Yet in recent months the number and accuracy of Russian strikes on the railway have surged.

America’s new national security strategy, published last week, has exploded into this already precarious situation and has sent shockwaves across the whole of Europe. It casts the European Union as more of a threat to US interests than Russia.

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.

Russians are starting to notice. In a recent survey, says Vladimir Zvonovsky, a sociologist in the Russian city of Samara, the number of those saying their well-being was deteriorating was triple those saying it was improving. It is now at the highest level since the start of the war.

Ukrainian drones — and the occasional missile — have been causing havoc across Russia for months. According to Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), nearly 160 successful strikes have been conducted in 2025 against oil extraction and refining facilities ...

Russia wants all of the Donbas, and more. Ukraine is loath to cede any land to Moscow, let alone areas Kyiv’s forces control. The US is pushing for an end to the war. Here’s a look at the tense issue of territorial control in Ukraine,

Yehor Cherniev, deputy chairman of Ukraine’s National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee, told Rudaw on Friday that Russia is pressing hard on the battlefield and is not negotiating in good faith,

Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.

Ukraine is working with Russia to resume prisoner exchanges that could bring home 1,2000 Ukrainian prisoners, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday. "We are working to ensure another start to negotiations, so that after all there is a prospect to ...

Ukraine has officially received French Mirage 2000 fighter jets, unlocking new air combat capabilities and a powerful new launch platform for Storm Shadow strikes. In this video, we break down what these jets bring to the battlefield—and why Russia’s air defenses are about to be tested like never before.