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    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      ExplainerWar in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Moscow blames Kyiv as Russian military plane crash kills 74

      Defence ministry says 65 Ukrainian prisoners on board flight died when aircraft went down

      Footage shows a Russian military transport plane crashing in the in the Korochansky district of Russia’s Belgorod region on January 24
    • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Slovakia’s prime minister U-turns on Ukraine support during visit

      Russia-friendly Robert Fico pledges backing to Kyiv on his first trip to the war-torn country

      Robert Fico shaking hands with Denys Shmyhal
    • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine war is ‘battle for ammunition’, says Nato chief

      Kyiv’s troops forced to ration artillery rounds as Russia launches latest barrage

      A Ukrainian serviceman holds a howitzer shell
    • Monday, 22 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Poland’s PM pledges full support for Ukraine

      Donald Tusk’s visit to Kyiv comes after relations worsened during previous government

      Polish PM Donald Tusk, left, meets Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Monday
    • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      Missiles from Iran and North Korea boost Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine

      Moscow changes tactics with unprecedented barrages aiming ‘to crack the code’ of Ukrainian air defences

      A montage of missiles, a bomber and damaged buildings
    • Monday, 8 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Russia batters Ukraine in biggest air strikes since new year barrage

      President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges allies to help replenish depleting air defence stocks

      Emergency workers help an injured man near Kryviy Rih, Ukraine, on Monday
    • Sunday, 7 January, 2024
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      Military briefing: Russia has the upper hand in electronic warfare with Ukraine

      Both Kyiv and Moscow seek to bolster drone jamming capabilities as attacks mount

    • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Russia pounds Ukraine in new year’s second massive air strike

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges western allies to send more financial and military aid to bolster depleting air defences

      A fire burns after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine
    • Monday, 1 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Russia launches ‘record’ wave of drones against Ukraine

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledges retaliation for deadly air strikes that have killed or injured dozens

      Damage to buildings on the outskirts of Lviv following a Russian drone attack on New Year’s Eve
    • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukrainian army chiefs seek to mobilise 500,000 more troops

      President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says military wants more conscription to hold lines against Russia

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy  said he had instructed his military chiefs to develop a detailed plan explaining why so many new troops were needed
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine claims wife of country’s military intelligence chief was poisoned

      Several officers also undergoing medical treatment after contamination with heavy metal substances, say officers

      Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov and his wife Marianna
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Manpower becomes Ukraine’s latest challenge as it digs in for a long war

      Kyiv seeks to persuade younger recruits with better endurance and higher skills to join up

      A Ukrainian serviceman flies a drone to spot Russian positions
    • 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
    • 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
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