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Evacuees from the border area of Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine say they were pursued by Russian drones as they fled their homes. The area is next to the Kursk region, where Russian forces are retaking territory seized by Ukraine in a surprise 2024 incursion.
In a workshop run by Ukrainian specialists, engineers continuously improve the unmanned vehicles. The rapid advancement of drone warfare suggests that in the next six to twelve months, the landscape of military technology could change dramatically, making it a race to see which side adapts faster.
A Finnish court has convicted a Russian former far-right militia member of committing war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donbas region in 2014. The Helsinki court sentenced Voislav Torden, also known as Yan Petrovsky, to life in the unusual case.
A day after Ukraine agreed to a 30-day cease-fire deal, Ukrainians in Kyiv shared their doubts about whether Russia will sign on to -- and adhere to -- the proposed agreement. Moscow has not yet commented on the details of the U.S.-brokered deal, which Kyiv agreed to during talks in Saudi Arabia.
Cities and towns throughout Ukraine were hit by Russian drones on March 12 just hours after Ukraine agreed to a US proposal for a 30-day cease-fire. Military analysts told RFE/RL that they expect attacks to continue as Moscow considers its response.
Moscow witnessed the heaviest drone air strike since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on March 11, as talks between the United States in Kyiv officials began in Saudi Arabia. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak.
Frontline Ukrainian soldiers continue to defend a junction of the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions after the United States cut military aid and intelligence support for Ukraine. After months of frontline combat, one Ukrainian soldier said his unit will "keep fighting" despite depleting supplies.
Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region are under increasing military pressure and may have to abandon the territory, say analysts interviewed by RFE/RL. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had planned to trade the Kursk area for Ukrainian territory currently held by Russia.
Russian air strikes overnight in eastern Ukraine killed at least 20 people in the Donetsk region, according to local officials, with at least 11 deaths reported in the city of Dobropillya.
Analysts say Ukraine's own sources of intelligence -- and those of Western partners -- will help shore up any gaps caused by the cutoff of US intelligence sharing announced by the White House on March 5. But, they note, air defenses could be weakened without access to satellite data.
People living in Baltic countries have expressed concern that they'll be more exposed to pressure from Russia after the US froze military aid to Ukraine.
The Starlink satellite network owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk keeps Ukraine’s Chernihiv Region online amid Russian threats.
US President Donald Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last week. Current Time spoke to the independent Russian expert Yury Fedorov and to Volodymyr Fesenko, a Ukrainian political scientist.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the tense Oval Office meeting with US President Donald Trump last week was "regrettable," and that he is willing to work with Trump's "strong leadership" to achieve long-term peace.
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Washington to sign a deal with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, on granting the United States access to his country's mineral wealth, Russia's tightly controlled media have been scrambling to keep up with the Kremlin's shifting narrative.
The family of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov has exclusively shared with Current Time a final interview with his mother 10 years after the Russian politician was gunned down on a Moscow bridge. In the interview recorded by Nemtsov's family, his mother, Dina, describes her son's political awakening.
Trained in France, Ukraine’s 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade has been roiled by desertions, its commander arrested, its members complaining of lack of equipment. Now the unit is deployed in Pokrovsk, trying to defend the embattled city from Russian encirclement.
By the time the Ukrainian Army's new French-trained 155th Brigade got to the front, 1,700 soldiers had reportedly left the unit without permission. Now the brigade is fighting on the front line near Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
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