The Latest Breaking News from Ukrainian Armed Forces

Ukraine army retreats from part of strategic Chasiv Yar as Russia advances

Fall of key Donetsk town, prized for elevated position, would bring Russia one step closer to seizing entire region.

Al Jazeera · Jul 4, 2024

Ukraine claims Russia is planning to attack Europe's biggest nuclear station TONIGHT

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station has been controlled by Russian troops for more than a year and now Ukraine has claimed the largest power plant in Europe could come under fresh attack

Daily Mirror · Jul 4, 2023

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine taking significant casualties and making slow progress towards Russian defence, say western officials – as it happened

Counteroffensive is still ‘going in the right direction’ says officials, in one of west’s first assessments of Ukrainian action launched on 4 June

The Guardian - AU · Jun 14, 2023

Ukrainian soldier reunites with family over Christmas call from east

Leonid Onyshchenko, a gruff-voiced 63-year-old Ukrainian soldier with a thick moustache, has spent many a Christmas away from his family, but hearing his little grandson Petro's voice over the phone from far away is as hard as ever.

Reuters · Dec 25, 2022

Russian missile barrage forces Ukraine to shut nuclear power plants

Russia unleashed a missile barrage across Ukraine on Wednesday, forcing shutdowns of nuclear power plants and killing at least six civilians as Moscow pursued a campaign to pitch Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as winter sets in.

Reuters · Nov 22, 2022

Explainer-Russia and North Korea forge closer ties amid shared isolation

The United States said this week it has information indicating North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a "significant" number of artillery shells, in what would be a further sign of deepening ties between the two pariah states.

Reuters · Nov 4, 2022

Heartbroken family pay tribute to 'courageous' Irishman, 23, killed in action fighting in Ukraine

Rory Mason, 23, from Dunboyne, Co Meath, was killed on Wednesday, September 28, whilst serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv Region, near the Russian border

Irish Mirror · Oct 5, 2022

Russia steps up attacks with Iranian drones, Ukraine plans defences - officials

Ukraine's president and security chiefs met on Monday to plan ways to counteract Russia's use of "new types of weapons" after Moscow stepped up attacks in Odesa region using Iranian combat drones, the president's office and a regional official said.

Reuters · Sep 26, 2022

U.S. warns of catastrophic consequences if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine

The United States warned on Sunday of "catastrophic consequences" if Moscow uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, after Russia's foreign minister said regions holding widely criticised referendums would get full protection if annexed by Moscow.

Reuters · Sep 25, 2022

Ukrainian ex-serviceman claims Russians tortured him in eastern city of Izium

Alexander Glushko says he spent the last fortnight of the Russian occupation of his hometown of Izium in northeast Ukraine jailed by Russian soldiers in the dank ruins of a police station where he was tortured with electric wires.

Reuters · Sep 21, 2022