The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

Russian-speaking Ukrainians want to shed ‘language of the oppressor’

Kharkiv on country’s eastern border has long had Russian-speaking majority but things are changing fast

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2023

A lost Ukraine: the photographs that show the calm before the carnage

Katherine Turczan grew up in the US listening to her family of Ukrainian exiles talk about home. In the 90s, she finally visited the country, taking gentle, bucolic pictures that now feel tragic

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2023

Russia switching to defensive positions in all areas of combat except Bakhmut, claims Ukraine intelligence – as it happened

Head of intelligence in Ukraine says Bakhmut is the only frontline area in which Russian troops are making any attempt to advance

The Guardian - AU · Apr 24, 2023

World military spending reaches all-time high of $2.24 trillion

Surge in spending reflects Russia-Ukraine war and ‘increasingly insecure world’, according to leading think tank.

Al Jazeera · Apr 24, 2023

EU's Borrell sees deal soon to buy ammunition for Ukraine

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell expressed confidence on Monday that the bloc would finalise a plan within days to buy ammunition for Ukraine after Kyiv expressed frustration at wrangling among EU member states.

Reuters · Apr 24, 2023

Analysts say Kyiv may be launching long-awaited counteroffensive as Ukraine war spurs record global spending on military

A new analysis gives rise to speculation that Kyiv is beginning a long-awaited counteroffensive, as new data shows global military expenditure increased by a record 3.7 per cent last year.

ABC News · Apr 24, 2023

World military spending rises to record as insecurity swells

Global military spending rose to a record last year, spurred by a policy U-turn in Europe where governments boosted capabilities by the most since the end of the Cold War in the wake of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

Tribune News Service · Apr 23, 2023

Defence spending in western and central Europe tops last year of cold war

Stockholm International Peace Institute’s annual report finds UK was region’s biggest spender in 2022 at $68.5bn

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2023

G7 Hiroshima Summit / Food sustainability, Kyiv support sought

MIYAZAKI -- The two-day G7 Agriculture Ministers' Meeting ended Sunday with a communique that confirmed the strengthening of cooperation on food security to expand production as well as support for agricultural production in Ukraine.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Apr 23, 2023

Ukraine war spurs record global spending on military, Stockholm think tank says

Global military spending rose to a record last year as Russia's war in Ukraine drove the biggest annual increase in expenditure in Europe since the end of the Cold War three decades ago, a leading conflict and armaments think tank said on Monday.

Reuters · Apr 23, 2023