Loud explosions were heard over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Saturday, as the authorities warned of incoming ballistic missiles. An air-raid alert had just ended when booms were heard throughout the city at 5:50 a.m. local time. Seconds later, air-raid sirens began to wail. The country’s air-defense systems were working, the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, […]

Loud explosions were heard over the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Saturday, as the authorities warned of incoming ballistic missiles. An air-raid alert had just ended when booms were heard throughout the city at 5:50 a.m. local time. Seconds later, air-raid sirens began to wail. The country’s air-defense systems were working, the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, […]

Ukraine’s national electricity operator introduced emergency power cuts on Wednesday after the country came under what the energy minister called a “massive” missile attack. Air-raid sirens wailed at around 5:45 a.m. in the capital, Kyiv, as most of the country was put on alert for missile launches. As people huddled in shelters into a third […]

Ukraine carried out “massive” drone strikes on several regions of Russia overnight, local officials there said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be one of the largest recent assaults in a Ukrainian campaign to cripple Russia’s war machine on its home turf. The attacks, mostly in southwestern Russia, were the latest in a series that […]

The Ukrainian authorities on Saturday announced the capture of two North Korean soldiers in Russia, saying they were the first to be taken alive since Pyongyang sent troops to assist Moscow’s war effort. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the two soldiers, who were wounded, were captured in the Kursk region of western Russia, where […]

It looks like a serene snapshot from Ukraine’s battlefield: A group of armor-clad soldiers huddled around a makeshift table scattered with food and playing cards. Some laugh or smoke, and one lounges on the ground, smiling as he scrolls through his phone. The photograph is unlike others of the Ukrainian front that have rallied people […]