Volodymyr Zelensky

Both Ukraine and Russia are claiming front line advances as Kyiv pushes to recapture territory seized by Moscow throughout the war, updated maps show, nearly two months into the long anticipated counteroffensive. Ukraine's armed forces continued counteroffensive operations on at least three sectors of the front line and advanced on…

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Russia’s overnight attack against Odesa was the largest in a string of almost daily strikes on the Black Sea port city after Moscow pulled out of the UN-brokered Ukrainian grain export deal on 17 July. Russia aims to neutralise international efforts to renew the functioning of the grain corridor, Ukrainian…

Footage has been released that allegedly shows the aftermath of a renewed barrage of Russian missile strikes on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, which claims to have been targeted at an Orthodox cathedral overnight and injured nearly 20 people. On Sunday morning, Ukraine's air force said Russian forces had…

Updated July 22, 2023 at 12:51 p.m. EDT|Published July 22, 2023 at 2:27 a.m. EDT A person stands amid the debris of a farm storage building destroyed during a Russian attack on Ukraine's Odessa region on Friday. (Libkos/AP)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the Crimean Bridge linking the peninsula to…

The United Nations has warned of escalating military action in the Black Sea after Russia said its navy carried out a live fire exercise there, days after declaring that ships travelling to Ukraine would be considered potential military targets. Earlier, Moscow's forces struck the Black Sea port of Odesa for…

Speed Reads Vadym Prystaiko accused his boss of an ‘unhealthy sarcasm’ in response to British defence secretary Ben Wallace Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sacked his country’s ambassador to the UK after a row over the Ukrainian president’s perceived ingratitude towards the British government. The presidential order dismissing Vadym Prystaiko, who has…

CNN  —  Attending a NATO summit in Vilnius on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got huge support from adoring crowds and some concessions from the alliance’s leaders – but no clear timeline on when Ukraine could join the group. Zelensky signaled before the meeting that he wanted NATO to commit…

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s confrontational tweet this week challenging NATO leaders on the glacial pace of his war-torn country’s admission into the alliance so roiled the White House that U.S. officials involved with the process considered scaling back the “invitation” for Kyiv to join, according to six…

CNN  —  At last year’s NATO summit in Madrid, the alliance formally invited Sweden and Finland to join its ranks. At this year’s summit in Vilnius, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was hoping the alliance would extend his country the same favor. That was not to be. In its final communique,…