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

Ukraine says 200 decomposing bodies uncovered in Mariupol basement

By Ricardo Mazalan, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and Elena Becatoros

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

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

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

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

People clear a residential area after a Russian airstrike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on May 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

May 7, 2022, 10:09 pm

Russia ramps up offensive in eastern Ukraine ahead of Victory Day parades

Kyiv says all women, children and elderly evacuated from besieged Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol; Biden announces another military aid package worth $150 million

By Joshua MELVIN and David Stout

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

Ukrainian soldiers sit on a armored military vehicle in the city of Severodonetsk, Donbas region, on April 7, 2022. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

April 11, 2022, 12:07 pm

Austrian chancellor to meet with Putin as Kyiv braces for eastern offensive

Karl Nehammer is 1st European leader to meet with Russian president since invasion’s onset; EU mulls further sanctions against Moscow; Ukraine FM Kuleba says still open for talks

By Hervé BAR

A Ukrainian serviceman walks on an abandoned Russian army tank in Andriivka, Ukraine, April 5, 2022 (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

April 7, 2022, 4:28 pm

Ukraine warns civilians of ‘last chance’ to flee Russian attacks in east

Zelensky says Russia preparing renewed offensive in Donbas; G7 calls for Moscow’s suspension from UN Human Rights Council; Kremlin vows response to latest US sanctions

By Agencies

A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

March 31, 2022, 8:52 pm

Russian troops leaving Chernobyl after getting radiation – Ukraine nuclear agency

Energoatom claims soldiers retreated after ‘becoming sick’ in highly radiated area; adds that Moscow signed off on document handing over control of the power plant

By Nebi Qena and YURAS KARMANAU

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during an interview with independent Russian news media from Kyiv, Ukraine, March 27, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

March 28, 2022, 5:26 pm

Zelensky says he’s willing to make concessions to achieve peace ‘without delay’

Ahead of talks in Turkey, Ukrainian leader says Kyiv ready to declare neutrality, offer security guarantees to Russia and potentially accept compromise on contested Donbas region

By AP and TOI staff

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

March 27, 2022, 7:08 pm

Zelensky says West ‘lacking courage’ in helping Ukraine fight

UK warns Russia is moving to encircle Ukrainian forces in Donbas region; Ukrainian military intel chief accuses Moscow of trying to split up country in a Korea-like scenario

By YURAS KARMANAU

Head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik. (Screenshot/Twitter)

March 27, 2022, 3:54 pm

Leader of east Ukraine separatist region says it may hold vote on joining Russia

Leonid Pasechnik announces ballot could take place ‘in near future’; when Moscow invaded Ukraine, it claimed it needed to defend Lugansk and Donetsk regions

By AFP

Firefighters extinguish flames outside an apartment house after a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy)

March 16, 2022, 2:31 pm

Russia says there’s ‘hope’ for a compromise as fighting intensifies in Kyiv suburbs

Ukraine rejects proposal for smaller, non-aligned military, says talks must focus on ‘security guarantees’; UK, US say Russian forces remain about 10 miles from center of capital

By Andrea Rosa

Ukrainian border guards stand at a checkpoint from territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists to the territory controlled by Ukrainian forces in Novotroitske, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 21, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

February 22, 2022, 3:21 pm

The story behind Ukraine’s separatist regions and their support from Russia

Since 2014 Moscow has thrown its weight behind an insurgency in the Donetsk and Luhansk border areas; a 2015 peace deal that grants them some self-rule has not been implemented

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Ukraine's Military Forces servicemen shop in the Donetsk region town of Avdiivka, on the eastern Ukraine front-line with Russia-backed separatists on February 21, 2022. (Aleksey Filippov / AFP)

February 22, 2022, 12:12 am

US slaps sanctions on Ukraine breakaway regions recognized by Putin

White House says move aimed at Lugansk and Donetsk regions is separate from threatened penalties ready to be imposed against Russia should it attack Ukraine

By AFP

A serviceman of the self-declared Luhansk republic poses for a photographer in a shelter on the territory controlled by pro-Russian militants at the frontline with Ukrainian government forces in Slavyanoserbsk, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, on February 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)

February 21, 2022, 11:02 pm

Putin recognizes Ukraine separatist territories as independent, defying West

Russian president claims Western countries threatening Russia; EU says sanctions on the table; 2 Ukrainian soldiers, 1 civilian killed in shelling

By LORNE COOK, YURAS KARMANAU and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV