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Ukraine’s authorities announced on 20 March last year that Russian troops had bombed an art school where about 400 people were sheltering. The city’s administration said many of those ...
1 July: In an escalation of hostilities, the press center of the Ukrainian Joint Forces recorded 26 pro-Russian attacks on their positions. In the eastern area of operations, heavy shelling was reported around the stronghold of Avdiivka, where the Ukrainian garrison became the target of heavy machine guns, various grenade-launcher systems, 82 mm mortars, 120 mm mortars and 122 mm self ...
3 April: The press centre of the Ukrainian Joint Forces reported 16 attacks on their positions by pro-Russian troops. [34]7 April: Pro-Russian forces launched a drone strike on Ukrainian troops at Avdiivka, in the eastern area of operations; a civilian vehicle carrying journalists from a Ukrainian TV channel was also targeted.
31 March – Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the country of "provoking armed confrontation" with pro-Russian separatists in the war-torn eastern portion of the country. Putin also said that Ukraine failed to comply with the July 2020 ceasefire of the conflict, which has killed over 14,000 people since it broke out in 2014. [15]
The United Nations has added Russia to a global list of offenders for killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022.. Russian forces and affiliated groups “maimed 518 children and carried out 480 ...
With Russia wearing down Ukraine’s stretched forces and new US President Donald Trump pressuring the two sides to end their nearly 3-year-old war, Kyiv and some of its European allies are ...
According to an April 2023 investigative report by the Russian website Vertska, the banning of Medvedchuk's channels was the final catalyst for Putin deciding to take military action against Ukraine. The report further claimed that he made the decision in near-total secrecy between February and March 2021, with Russian businessman and close ...
From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia massed troops near Ukraine's borders and issued demands to the West including a ban on Ukraine ever joining the ...