The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

A CS:GO pro player has died defending Ukraine

Family, friends, and fans morn the loss of CS:GO pro player Ostap '0ni' Onistrat who has been killed fighting Russian forces.

TechRadar · Jun 16, 2023

Head of Ukraine Football Association to be detained before fraud trial

Andriy Pavelko to be tried on money laundering charges relating to the construction of an artificial grass factory

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023

Putin touts Russian economy, says Ukraine's president is 'shame to Jewish people'

President Vladimir Putin is touting Russia’s prospects at the country’s main international economic forum despite heavy international sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

The Global South is forging a new foreign policy in the face of war in Ukraine, China-US tensions: Active nonalignment

What does the Ukraine war have to do with Brazil? On the face of it, perhaps not much.

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2023

150 Ukrainian children abducted by Russian forces, says National Resistance Centre

Russia has been accused of abducting almost 20,000 Ukrainian children since the war began

Evening Standard · Jun 16, 2023

21 year-old CS:GO pro dies in defense of Ukraine

Ostap 'Oni' Onistrat described by his peers as a national hero.

PC Gamer · Jun 16, 2023

Fears of environmental disaster mount after Ukraine dam break

An estimated 700,000 people are in need of clean water around the Nova Kakhovka dam as Kyiv speaks of ‘ecocide’.

Al Jazeera · Jun 16, 2023

'Democratic backsliding has accelerated': Council of Europe chief Pejcinovic Buric

Talking Europe interviews the head of the Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog. A former Croatian minister of foreign and European affairs, Marija Pejcinovic Buric was elected to lead the Council of Europe in 2019. The organisation started out with just 10 nations in 1949, and now numbers…

France 24 · Jun 16, 2023

African leaders prepare to meet Putin after Zelensky rules out talks

A high-level African delegation was preparing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, a day after its calls for talks between Moscow and Kyiv were rebuffed by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

Radio France Internationale · Jun 16, 2023

Ukraine: Explosions rock Kyiv as African leaders begin ‘peace mission’

The African leaders headed to Ukraine’s capital before talks with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Saturday

Evening Standard · Jun 16, 2023