Ukraine

The UNESCO-listed city of Chersonesus (Greek: Χερσόνησος), located on the southwestern part of the Crimean peninsula—now part of Russia after its 2014 invasion of the area—was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago. Settlers from Heraclea Pontica in...

Next week, the German government will vote on a resolution to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. The Holodomor, known as the "Terror Famine" or "Great Famine" led to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians under the rule of...

Satellite images captured on November 24 show vast tracts of Ukraine in almost complete darkness. The satellite imagery shows the impact of recent Russian missile strikes against the the beleaguered nation’s energy grid. On Wednesday, Russia launched a wave of...

Powerful explosions were recorded at the Zaporizhzhia Russian-occupied nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Saturday night and on Sunday, shaking the area. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, more than a dozen blasts from apparent shelling caused damage to...

NATO announced on Wednesday that the missile that hit Poland on Tuesday night was "most probably" a stray fired from Ukraine rather than from Russia as originally thought. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference that the blast...

Two Russian missiles are reported to have missed their target in Ukraine and hit a farm in Poland instead. According to CNN, the projectiles landed at a small landholding in Przewodów near the Polish border with Ukraine. The news agency also...

The CIA chief met his Russian counterpart in Turkey on Monday. The Kremlin verified that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns met face-to-face with Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR RF), in the...

Ukraine celebrates the retaking of the strategic city of Kherson from Russia on Friday in a major setback in Vladimir Putin's military invasion. Ukrainian soldiers were welcomed into Kherson by jubilant residents after Russia said it had fully withdrawn from...

On Wednesday, top brass in the Russian military announced their forces' withdrawal from the strategically important Ukrainian city of Kherson. Russian forces now appear to have retreated to the east bank of the River Dnipro. The decision to pull back...

Around two hundred thousand soldiers from both sides have been killed in the Ukraine war, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated on Wednesday. The most senior US general said that military casualties are evenly...