Author: Oleksandr Stashevskyi

KYIV, Ukraine • Ukraine’s president says Russian troops intend to capture Zaporizhzhia, a large city in the country’s southeast, which would allow the Russian military to advance closer to the center of the country. Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that peace talks with Russia stood at “level zero,” and in the meantime “the most threatening situation”…

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine • Thirty-six years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Russian troops risked causing an accident with their “very, very dangerous” seizure of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Wearing a blue IAEA jacket and standing under an orange umbrella during rainfall outside…

KYIV, Ukraine • The presidents of four countries on Russia’s doorstep visited Ukraine on Wednesday and underscored their support for the embattled country, where they saw heavily damaged buildings and demanded accountability for what they called war crimes carried out by Russian forces. The visit by the presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia was…

YAHIDNE, Ukraine • The Russian soldiers forced more than 300 villagers into a school basement. Then, during weeks of stress and deprivation, some began to die. Residents of Yahidne, a village 87 miles from Kyiv, talked about being ordered into the basement at gunpoint after the Russians took control of the area around the northern…