UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths announced Monday that he will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey this week to push for the creation of a “humanitarian contact group” involving Ukraine and Russia. Such a group wou...

According to the latest information as of April 18, four filtration camps were deployed by the Russian military around Mariupol, which forcibly housed locals before deporting them to Russia. This information was announced on Ukrainian television by P...

US President Joe Biden will convene a meeting of allies to discuss the Ukraine conflict Tuesday, the White House said, after Kyiv announced Russia had launched a major new offensive in the east of the country. The meeting, announced on Biden’s ...

Ukrainian officials on Tuesday, April 19, said a long-awaited Russian Federation (RF) offensive in the country’s eastern Donbas region has begun, with some claiming a chemical weapons strike may have taken place in the critical Izium sector. Ukrain...

– Eastern offensive begins – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia’s large-scale offensive in the eastern Donbas region has begun. “We can now confirm that Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbas, whic...

Massing Russian forces in the easternmost Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk have “begun the battle for Donbas,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said during his nightly address to the nation  minutes before midnight on April 18. “It can now...

Editor’s Note: The following is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s daily address to the nation in English as it appears on the presidential website:  Ukrainians! Our defenders! The 54th day of our defense against the Russian invasi...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a memorial to the Ukrainian city mayors, township and village heads whom invading Russian troops have kidnapped since Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of the country. The three-piece me...

Ukraine’s indomitable spirit was on full display over the weekend in Kharkiv, the nation’s second largest city, when the publication of a new book was presented in a bomb shelter amid interspersed Russian bombardment. A Ukrainian translation of t...

– Putin honours brigade accused of Bucha atrocities –   As strikes hit western Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday lauded a brigade accused by Ukraine of committing atrocities near the capital Kyiv as his forces pounded ta...