Donbas

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on May 26, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

May 26, 2022, 3:29 pm

Germany’s Scholz vows Putin ‘won’t win’ as Zelensky implores West for unlimited aid

Berlin faces accusations from Ukraine that it could do more to help; Russia presses its slow advance into neighbor’s east

By Charlotte Plantive, Dmitry Zaks and David Stout

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen on a screen as he addresses the audience from Kyiv during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, May 23, 2022. (AP/Markus Schreiber, File)

May 25, 2022, 5:29 pm

Zelensky demands Russian troops leave Ukraine as precondition to diplomacy

Addressing World Economic Forum via video link, president vows Ukraine will reclaim ‘all its territories’; Russian lawmakers scrap age cap of 40 for first-time army volunteers

By Ricardo Mazalan

Undertakers lower the coffin of Ukrainian serviceman Oleksander Matyukhin, 32, in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

May 24, 2022, 4:41 pm

Ukraine says 200 decomposing bodies uncovered in Mariupol basement

As war rages in east, UK says Russia achieved some ‘localized successes’ despite Ukrainian resistance; Kremlin-installed official asks Moscow to set up military base in Kherson

By Ricardo Mazalan, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and Elena Becatoros

Cars pass by destroyed Russian tanks in a recent battle against Ukrainians in the village of Dmytrivka, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, May 23, 2022. Three months after it invaded Ukraine hoping to overtake the country in a blitz, Russia has bogged down in what increasingly looks like a war of attrition with no end in sight. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

May 24, 2022, 11:53 am

3 months since invasion began, Russia embroiled in Ukraine war with no end in sight

Hardliners in Russia urge Kremlin to conduct a mass mobilization and concentrate its resources, as Russian troops remain bogged down outside Ukrainian cities

By AP

Patients rest at Pokrovsk hospital in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

May 23, 2022, 9:13 am

Ukraine defends eastern city from Russian bombardment

Poland’s President Duda travels to Kyiv, becoming first foreign leader to address Ukrainian parliament since beginning of war

By Elena Becatoros, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and Ricardo Mazalan

This photo released on May 10, 2022, by the Azov regiment shows an injured Ukrainian serviceman inside the Azovstal iron and steel works factory in Mariupol, Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion. (Dmytro 'Orest' Kozatskyi/various sources/AFP)

May 17, 2022, 3:44 pm

Ukraine says doing ‘everything necessary’ to extract last defenders of Mariupol mill

Kyiv hails fighters who have held out against Russians in Azovstal, saying they gave country ‘vital time to accumulate reserves, regroup and mobilize forces and receive assistance’

By David Stout, Patrick Fort and Dmitry Zaks

Screen grab of a video, which cannot be verified, that apparently shows the burning rubble at the site of the school in Bilohorivka, May 8, 2022. (Screen grab/twitter)

May 8, 2022, 3:24 pm

60 feared dead in Russian strike on school in eastern Ukraine

Local governor says around 90 people were sheltering at educational institute in Bilohorivka, with 30 survivors pulled from rubble; building caught fire after it was hit

By Elena Becatoros and Jon Gambrell

A view of the site of fire at an oil depot in Belgorod region, Russia, April 1, 2022. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

May 8, 2022, 11:37 am

Mimicking Israeli stance on alleged strikes, Ukraine keeps mum on Russia explosions

Questioned on fires at Russian factories and fuel depots, Zelensky adviser notes Israel doesn’t acknowledge covert attacks and assassinations

By Paul Handley

File: A Russian military convoy moves on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 16, 2022 (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)

May 2, 2022, 11:38 am

Russian general, 200 soldiers said killed in Ukrainian military strike

Reports say Kyiv attacked the position in Russian-controlled east shortly after it was visited by Russian military chief Gerasimov

By TOI staff

A woman stands next to three bodies in the courtyard of a house in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

April 28, 2022, 8:10 pm

Ukraine chief prosecutor says over 8,000 cases of suspected war crimes identified

Iryna Venediktova says alleged atrocities by Russian troops include ‘killing civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, torture and sexual crimes’

By AFP

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, April 27, 2022. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AP)

April 28, 2022, 10:40 am

‘Blackmail’: European leaders issue fiery response to Russia cutting gas supplies

Declaring the Kremlin’s move a ‘failure,’ EU’s von der Leyen predicts the end of the continent’s dependence on Russian energy, says Kremlin has failed in attempt to sow division

By YESICA FISCH, Jon Gambrell and Vanessa Gera

A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid the rubble of a building heavily damaged by multiple Russian bombardments near a frontline in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

April 26, 2022, 7:12 pm

Russia intensifies attacks in Ukraine’s Donbas as West scrambles to arm Kyiv

At least nine killed in Russian attacks on towns and cities in eastern and southern Ukraine; dozens of strikes pound Mariupol plant where last fighters holed up

By YESICA FISCH and Jon Gambrell

Ukrainian servicemen Vasyl, 51, and his son Denys, 22, (L) pose at a checkpoint near Barvinkove, eastern Ukraine, on April 25, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

April 26, 2022, 9:04 am

Ukrainian soldiers on hard-hit eastern front struggle to keep up morale

Servicemen lament military’s heavy losses and Moscow’s ‘psychological warfare’ as they battle back amid heavy shelling

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Russian military vehicles move on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

April 22, 2022, 1:02 pm

Top Putin general says Russia will seek conquest of entire Donbas, southern Ukraine

Maj. Gen. Rustam Minnekaev says full Russian control over area will allow for ‘land corridor’ to Crimea, help create ‘another way out to’ pro-Moscow separatist region in Moldova

By AFP

April 19, 2022, 10:17 am

Ukraine says Russia attacking ‘along nearly the entire’ eastern front

Local official says Russian troops ‘started leveling everything to the ground’ before capturing Kreminna; Zelensky: ‘We’ll defend ourselves’ no matter the size of invasion force

By Adam Schreck