
Russian airstrikes kill 2 and wound 8 in southern Ukraine as war enters 20th month
KYIV, Ukraine Russian airstrikes on Sunday killed two people and wounded eight others in southern Ukraine s Kherson province, the region s governor reported Sunday as the war in Ukraine entered its

Russia says southeast Ukraine is now the main focus of fighting in the war
KYIV, Ukraine The Zaporizhzhia region of southeast Ukraine has become the most recent hot spot for battles in the 18-month war, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday, as Kyiv s forces

Russians press Ukraine in the northeast to distract from more important battles in counteroffensive
LYMAN, Ukraine Concealed under pine branches in the forests of northeast Ukraine, the muzzle of a Soviet-era howitzer rises, aiming for a group of approaching Russian infantrymen many kilometers awa

‘Exhaust them’: Why Ukraine has fought Russia for every inch of Bakhmut, despite high cost
KYIV, Ukraine The nine-month battle for Bakhmut has destroyed the 400-year-old city in eastern Ukraine and killed tens of thousands of people in a mutually devastating demonstration of Ukraine s str

Ukraine says it has retaken territory near embattled eastern city of Bakhmut
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Ukrainian military commanders said Friday that their troops had recaptured more territory from Russian forces at the scene of the war s longest and bloodiest battle, for the easte

As Ukraine marks year of war, leader vows to secure victory
KYIV, Ukraine Ukraine s leader pledged Friday to push for victory in 2023 as he and other Ukrainians marked the somber anniversary of the Russian invasion that upended their lives and Europe s secur

Along Ukraine-Belarus border, a war of nerves — and drones
BELARUS BORDER, Ukraine The reconnaissance drones fly several times a day from Ukrainian positions deep inside the thick forest that marches across the border into Belarus, a close Russian ally, sco

Russians gone, fear and hardship remain
KALYNIVSKE, Ukraine When night falls in Tatiana Trofimenko s village in southern Ukraine, she pours sunflower oil that aid groups gave her into a jar and seals it with a wick-fitted lid. A flick of

New barrage of Russian strikes in Ukraine kills at least 11
KYIV, Ukraine Russia fired more missiles and self-exploding drones at nearly a dozen Ukrainian provinces early Thursday, causing the first war-related death in Kyiv this year and killing at least 11

Queen Elizabeth II mourned by Britain and world at funeral
LONDON Britain and the world said a final goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II at a state funeral Monday that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers and crowds who thronged the streets of

Bomb at Kabul mosque kills 5 civilians, Taliban say
KABUL, Afghanistan At least five civilians were killed in a bomb blast outside a Kabul mosque Sunday, a Taliban official said. It was the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since U.S. forces lef