The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

G7 allies set to announce security package for Ukraine at Vilnius Nato summit

The announcement comes after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky voiced his frustration that Nato has not offered a timeframe for Kyiv to join.

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2023

NATO stops short of Ukraine invitation, angering Zelenskyy

Military alliance says it will invite Ukraine to become a member only when ‘conditions are met’ but gives no timeline.

Al Jazeera · Jul 11, 2023

Huge ship where 1,000 Ukrainians lived leaves Edinburgh docks as refugees rehomed

Exactly a year after MS Victoria docked in Leith to house over a thousand of Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the huge ship is setting sale.

Edinburgh Live · Jul 11, 2023

Is NATO up to the challenge? Putin's war tests Alliance's resolve

NATO is no longer brain dead. Emmanuel Macron, who authored that quip back in 2019, can thank Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine for that. But now that it's back to its original mission of containing Russia, can the Alliance keep up?

France 24 · Jul 11, 2023

Bipartisan push forms in Congress to deny Ukraine cluster bombs

It's a rare break with Biden's policy on Ukraine from members of his own party.

Axios · Jul 11, 2023

Ukraine still has conditions to meet before it can join Nato, leaders say

Volodymyr Zelensky said the delay was providing Russia with the ‘motivation to continue its terror’.

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2023

In Ukraine, civilians train on survival skills to cope with dangers from Russia’s war

In a cramped municipal building in a residential area of the Ukrainian capital, a group of people take turns training to shoot from a replica of a machine gun with the help of a weapon’s training simulator relying on virtual reality

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2023

The invasion of Ukraine spurred NATO to revamp its defense plans against Russian attack

U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts have endorsed the biggest shakeup of the way the military alliance would respond to any attack on its territory by Russia since the Cold War

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2023

Georgia’s imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashivili says Nato must not hesitate to admit Ukraine

The former leader – who is serving a prison sentence decried as politically motivated – says the alliance cannot show the same weakness it did in the wake of a 2008 declaration saying Kyiv and Tbilisi could join but offering no path. Russia invaded Georgia months later

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2023

Top Russian official says Poland wants to seize parts of Ukraine

Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova touts theory often raised by Moscow without any evidence.

Al Jazeera · Jul 11, 2023