Russian war on Ukraine

Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022. (Roman Hrytsyna/AP)

February 5, 2023, 9:17 pm

Report: Iranian officials visit Russia to scout out site for drone-building factory

Wall Street Journal says delegation was in Yelabuga last month to advance plans for facility that could produce 6,000 deadly UAVs

By ToI Staff

Screen grab from an unverified video circulating on social media said to show explosion at a defense facility in Iran's Isfahan after an alleged drone strike, January 28, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 30, 2023, 9:40 am

Mossad carried out Iran defense facility strike for Israel’s own interests — report

US officials tell NYT drone attack not aimed at stopping weapons exports to Russia; ex-PM Bennett says he intensified Iran strikes after plot to kill Israelis in Turkey, Cyprus

By ToI Staff

Image shows US Hawk anti-aircraft missiles in a Saudi Arabian desert, 1991. (AP Photo)

January 25, 2023, 10:23 pm

Israel said to rebuff US request for old anti-aircraft missiles to give to Ukraine

Defense official tells Biden administration Jerusalem has not changed policy against providing weapons to Kyiv, report says

By ToI Staff

Foreign Affairs minister Eli Cohen at the Foreign Affairs ministry in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023 (Courtesy Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

January 23, 2023, 1:06 pm

Daily Briefing Jan. 23: Some diplomacy with Kyiv; fusing insects with robots

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses Ukraine relations and a US official’s visit, as science writer Nathan Jeffay looks at robots with senses and medical clown research

By ToI Staff

From left to right: Composite photo showing CIA Director William Burns speaking at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, July 8, 2022. (AP/Susan Walsh); Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attending a news conference with European Council President Charles Michel after their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 19, 2023. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

January 20, 2023, 7:58 am

CIA chief Burns meets Ukraine’s Zelensky in Kyiv as Washington ups support

Spymaster also meets with other Ukrainian officials, while US gears up to deliver $2.5 billion in aid, including first Stryker armored vehicles

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

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Children and their companions from an orphanage in Odesa, Ukraine, wait for room allocation after their arrival at a hotel in Berlin, on Friday, March 4, 2022. More than 100 Jewish refugee children who were evacuated from a foster care home in war-torn Ukraine and made their way across Europe by bus have arrived in Berlin. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)

January 18, 2023, 8:13 pm

It’s winter and the Jewish children in Ukraine are freezing

As Russia ruthlessly attacks Ukraine, thousands have gone days without electricity, warm food & without a roof over their head. Together we can provide them with a home cooked meal

Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

January 15, 2023, 9:15 am

At least 23 dead in strike on Ukraine apartment tower; UK pledges tanks for Kyiv

Dozens missing as rescuers comb through rubble after Russian barrage on Dnipro building housing some 1,700 people; sides dispute who controls small mining town near Bakhmut

By Agencies

Rabbi Mordechai Bald and his wife, Sara, have distributed thousands of boxes of supplies to Jewish refugees from around Ukraine in Lviv – boxes of empty products that they have given out lie around outside the synagogue. (Jacob Judah/ JTA)

January 12, 2023, 4:13 pm

This year’s ‘Jewish Nobel’ is a group prize, going to Jewish activists in Ukraine

Though the $1 million Genesis Prize typically is awarded to an individual, ‘the extraordinary nature of events’ this year will see it go to NGOs ‘helping to alleviate suffering’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A building damaged by a Russian rocket attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, January 8, 2023. (Twitter photo screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 8, 2023, 4:32 pm

Russia claims to kill 600 Ukrainian troops in ‘retaliatory strike’ in Kramatorsk

Kremlin says 1,300 soldiers stationed in 2 buildings were targeted as revenge for Kyiv’s deadly New Year’s attack on Makiiva barracks

By AFP and ToI Staff

A destroyed Russian tank stands across the road from a church in the town of Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, January 6, 2023. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

January 7, 2023, 1:47 pm

Ukraine hails latest US military aid as Russia said to violate Christmas truce

Zelensky says tank-busting vehicles included in assistance are ‘exactly what is needed’ in the fight against Moscow’s forces

By ANDREW MELDRUM

Activists protest to raise awareness of sexual violence against Ukrainian women and children in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on April 20, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

January 4, 2023, 11:13 am

Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven

A harrowing examination reveals much abuse sliding under the authorities’ radar — or being willfully ignored — while the perpetrators remain free to commit further crimes

By Inna Lazareva

A serviceman stands at the bottom of a hotel, partially destroyed by a Russian strike, in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv on December 31, 2022 (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

December 31, 2022, 6:38 pm

Russia strikes Ukraine hours before New Year; Putin: Moral rightness on our side

Ukrainians prepare to celebrate December 31 despite ongoing war: ‘Our enemies can destroy our calm but they cannot destroy our spirit’

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

Illustrative: In this photo released by the Iranian Army on August 25, 2022, a drone is launched in a military drone drill in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

December 28, 2022, 6:45 pm

US in major effort to choke Iran’s drone program, end supply to Russia — NY Times

Report says Biden administration working closely with Israel on matter, but blocking regime from acquiring parts proving tricky

By ToI Staff

Iranians in Ukraine hold placards showing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as they protest against regimes in Moscow and Tehran, which have apparently stepped up defense ties amid Russia's war against Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 28, 2022. (AP/Andrew Kravchenko)

December 24, 2022, 5:02 pm

Kyiv calls for ‘liquidation’ of Iranian plants building weapons for Russia

Presidential adviser says Tehran gearing up to boost supplies to Moscow, ignoring international sanctions; Mossad chief also warns of increase in arms deliveries to Kremlin

By AFP and ToI Staff

Igor Yarmonov and Galina Gurina in their room in a communal flat in Ashdod, December 18, 2022. (Inna Lazareva/Times of Israel)

December 22, 2022, 10:54 am

Disabled world chess champion from Mariupol faces eviction from his Ashdod lodgings

Igor Yarmonov and his wife fled to Israel with the help of chess enthusiasts around the world. Now, with only a week to find new housing, their future is far from certain

By Inna Lazareva