Author: Susie Blann
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Trump says Zelenskyy ‘hasn’t read’ a US-authored proposal to end Russia-Ukraine war
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “hasn’t read” a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump was critical of Zelenskyy after U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators completed three days of talks on Saturday aimed at trying to narrow differences on the U.S. administration’s proposal. But…
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A blast rocks the Ukrainian city of Odesa during a visit by Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister
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The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged southern city Wednesday
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A woman clutching an infant is found in the rubble of Ukraine building after Russian drone strike
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Western allies to boost his country’s air defenses after a Russian drone strike destroyed an apartment block in the southern port city of Odesa and killed at least 11 people
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Ukraine official says Russia massing forces around a key city in the country’s east
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A Ukrainian official says Russia is accumulating large forces around Chasiv Yar as it seeks to make a push on the key eastern city to the west of Bakhmut, which fell to Moscow last May
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Ukraine says counteroffensive delayed; Britain sending cruise missiles to Kyiv
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KYIV, Ukraine • President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks broadcast Thursday that Kyiv is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces because Ukraine lacks enough Western weapons to succeed without suffering too many casualties. His remarks, in an interview with European broadcasters, were aired shortly before Britain said it has sent Ukraine air-launched cruise…
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Large explosions rock Russian military air base in Crimea
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KYIV, Ukraine • Powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea and sent towering clouds of smoke over the landscape Tuesday in what may mark an escalation of the war in Ukraine. At least one person was killed and several wounded, authorities said. Russia’s Defense Ministry denied the Saki base on the Black Sea…
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Russians shell city near Europe’s largest nuclear plant
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KYIV, Ukraine • Russian forces shelled a Ukrainian city close to Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant Thursday, reinforcing warnings from the U.N. nuclear chief that the fighting around the site could lead to a disastrous accident. Dnipropetrovsk’s regional governor said Russia fired 60 rockets at Nikopol, across the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant,…
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U.S. rocket system enables Ukraine to pummel key supply bridge
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KYIV, Ukraine • Ukrainian troops used American-supplied precision rocket launchers to knock out a strategic bridge used by Russia to supply its forces in southern Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region, officials said Wednesday. Ukraine also claimed to have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot, artillery pieces and other military equipment in the region, killing 51 members of…
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New Russian airstrikes target Black Sea regions of Ukraine
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KYIV, Ukraine • Russia targeted Ukraine’s southern Black Sea regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv with airstrikes Tuesday, hitting private buildings and port infrastructure with missiles fired from long-range bomber aircraft, the Ukrainian military said. In the Odesa region, buildings in coastal villages were hit and caught fire, Ukraine’s Operational Command South said on Facebook. A…
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‘Not my life’: An apartment block reflects the new Ukraine
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LVIV, Ukraine • The Soviet-era apartment blocks at the end of a tram line in this western Ukrainian city show an indifferent face to the world, blank and gray. But behind every lighted window is a story. There is the couple who lament that they may never live in the house being built for them…