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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Polish truckers extend Ukraine border blockade

      Protest spreads to main crossing with long queues forming as temperatures drop

      Polish truck drivers blockade the Dorohusk Polish-Ukrainian border crossing
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Polish truckers block Ukraine border crossings

      Kyiv envoy condemns wartime ‘stab in the back’ by protesters angry at rival drivers

      Trucks wait on a motorway that has been blocked by Polish vehicles in Dorohusk, Poland on the border with Ukraine
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Zelenskyy calls for discipline as cracks emerge in Kyiv’s unity

      Ukrainian president fires head of special forces and rebukes top commander who said war with Russia was at a ‘stalemate’

      Ukrainian soldiers in the Bakhmut district of Ukraine
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russian air strikes hit targets across Ukraine

      Drone and missile attacks come amid growing concerns in Kyiv about US financial and military assistance

      Firefighters work to extinguish a fire following an overnight Russian drone strike in Kharkiv
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine braced for attacks on its power grid as winter draws in

      Cities rush to protect energy infrastructure from Russian missile and drone strikes as temperatures drop

      Smoke billows from a power station following a Russian drone attack in the Kyiv region of Ukraine in December 2022
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      Military briefing: the advance of Ukraine’s ‘mosquito navy’

      Despite an essentially shipless maritime force, Kyiv has pushed back Russia’s Black Sea fleet and hit its bases

      A satellite image shows smoke billowing from the HQ of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol after a missile strike in September
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia targets eastern Ukrainian village in year’s deadliest attack

      More than 50 civilians killed in air strike on café and grocery store in Kharkiv region

      A firefighter at work following the deadly Russian air strike in the village of Hroza, eastern Ukraine
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Biden seeks to reassure Ukraine as war aid becomes US political battleground

      Support for Kyiv thrown into doubt as Republicans tie funding to border policies

      President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia pounds port of Odesa in latest air strikes against Ukraine

      Moscow continues attacks aimed at hobbling Kyiv’s grain exports

      The badly damaged Hotel Odesa
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Trade disputes
      Slovakia to drop ban on Ukrainian grain imports

      Agreement follows Kyiv’s rift with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over unilateral import restrictions

      Ukrainian grain stored in train wagons on the Polish-Ukrainian border
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia targets Ukrainian cities in pre-dawn missile attack

      Bombardment comes hours after Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged UN to back his peace plan to end ‘genocidal’ war

      Firefighters put out a fire at an industrial area of Kyiv after an overnight missile attack on Ukraine on Thursday
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Poland signals halt to Ukraine weapons transfers amid trade dispute

      Threat is latest salvo in spat that revolves around Warsaw’s refusal to accept Ukrainian grain imports

      Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Biden urges world leaders to stop Ukraine from being ‘carved up’

      US president presses allies to maintain support as Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares latest appeal to Washington

      Joe Biden addresses the UN General Assembly on Tuesday
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukrainian grain ship leaves Odesa despite Russian blockade

      The vessel is the first to dock in and set sail from Ukraine since Moscow reneged on international deal

      alau-flagged general cargo vessel Resilient Africa loaded with grain, leaves the sea port of Chornomorsk
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine intensifies efforts to break Russia’s Black Sea blockade

      Two vessels dock at Chornomorsk as Kyiv makes use of unilateral shipping corridor

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Zelenskyy turns to trusted ally Umerov for Ukraine defence clean-up

      Graft allegations and recruitment scandals have dogged ministry overseeing war with Russia

      Rustem Umerov
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine claims Russian drones crashed on Romanian territory

      Latest strikes targeting Danube river ports come before Putin-Erdoğan talks on restarting Black Sea grain deal

      A firefighter hoses down at a building hit by Russian drone attacks in Ukraine’s Odesa region
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Zelenskyy to replace Ukraine’s defence minister in wartime shake-up

      Biggest change to Kyiv government since invasion by Russia comes as counteroffensive grinds on

      Oleksiy Reznikov holds a military uniform during a news conference
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia launches drone strikes on Odesa region a day before grain talks

      Southern Ukrainian port area attacked as Erdoğan and Putin prepare to negotiate Black Sea exports

      The firefighter is silhouetted by flames in the background
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Igor Kolomoisky
      Ukrainian oligarch who backed Zelenskyy named as fraud probe suspect

      Igor Kolomoisky is also accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars as Kyiv tries to bolster its ant-graft campaign

      Igor Kolomoisky
    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukrainian pilot who led push for F-16s dies in training exercise

      Aviator codenamed ‘Juice’ played prominent role in pleading with western allies to give Ukraine jets

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukrainian troops carried out lethal raid on Crimean coast, says Kyiv

      Russian soldiers killed during alleged incursion into occupied peninsula, military intelligence claims

      Volodymyr Zelensky
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Netherlands and Denmark confirm plans to provide Kyiv with first F-16s

      Lengthy pilot training process means fighter jets are unlikely to arrive in time to bolster summer counteroffensive

    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      News in-depthUkraine military briefing
      Military briefing: Russia hunts Ukraine’s western missile stocks

      British Storm Shadows and French Scalps have helped Kyiv in its counteroffensive, but more are needed

      Volodymyr Zelensky signs ‘Glory to Ukraine’ onto a French Scalp cruise missile mounted on a Ukrainian jet
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