Russia-Ukraine War

Investigators work near a scooter at the place where Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov were killed by an explosive device planted close to a residential apartment's block in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo)

Russia arrests 4 suspects accused of plotting to kill top military officers on Ukraine’s orders

Russia’s top security agency says that it has arrested several suspects accused of involvement in an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate senior military officers.

In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, a "Grad" self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher fires toward Ukrainian position in the Russian - Ukrainian border area in the Kursk region, Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP)

A couple hundred North Korean troops killed, wounded in battles with Ukrainian forces

In this image made from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressees the nation at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Putin touts Russia’s new missile and delivers a menacing warning to NATO

FILE - A Russian military robotic vehicle detonates a land mine on a mine clearing mission to defuse mines along the high voltage line in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, July 13, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)

The US is sending antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine. Here’s what it means

In this photo provided by the Ukraine's 65th Mechanised Brigade press service on Nov. 19, 2024, Ukrainian soldiers attend a training in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. (Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine's 65th Mechanised Brigade via AP)

US will send Ukraine at least $275 million in new weapons in push to bolster Kyiv before Trump

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Oksana Halak poses for a portrait with her son Dmytro, 2, at the National Cancer Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Dmytro is one of 31 young patients battling cancer who were relocated to the hospital from Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital after it was struck by a Russian missile this week. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s largest hospital complicates treatment of kids with cancer

Oksana Femeniuk, left, and her daughter Solomiia, receive presents from volunteers, a day after they survived a Russian missile strike on Okhmatdyt children's hospital, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. The toll of Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in almost four months — one of the deadliest of the war — shows the devastating human cost of Russia’s improved targeting tactics. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Chaos and horror at a Kyiv hospital as the city is hit with heaviest bombardment in months

A police officer covers a body of a man who was killed by a Russian attack on Nova Poshta delivery in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 30, 2024. One person was killed and several were injured. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Zelenskyy appeals to West to relax targeting limits for Ukraine as glide bombs hammer front line

North Korean ambassador to the United Natiopns Song Kim finishes speaking during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Research expert tells UN it has ‘irrefutably’ established missile debris in Ukraine is North Korean

FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a press conference at the Ukraine peace summit in Obbürgen, Switzerland, on June 16, 2024.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signaled Wednesday, June 26, 2024 he is getting tough on officials he suspects are shirking their duties in the war with Russia that is now in its third year.Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region who have weathered fierce Russian ground and air assaults in recent months. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy visits front-line troops under pressure from Russia’s onslaught in eastern areas

FILE - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, gestures as he speaks to Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov prior to a meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin with the top military brass in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday, June 25, 2024 for Russia’s former defense minister and its military chief of staff for attacking civilian targets in Ukraine. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

International court seeks arrest of Russian officials over attacks on Ukrainian power plants

FILE - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view, March 27, 2008, in Washington. The U.S. is expected to announce Tuesday, June 25, 2024, it is sending an additional $150 million in critically needed munitions to Ukraine. This is according to two U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to provide details that have not yet been made public. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

US is expected to send Ukraine $150 million more in munitions to fight off Russia’s attacks

FILE - An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, on Oct. 11, 2022, one of the largest facilities for oil and petroleum products in southern Russia. The European Union on Monday slapped new sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine, targeting Moscow’s shadow fleet of tankers moving liquefied natural gas through Europe as well as several companies. (AP Photo, File)

The EU targets Russia’s LNG ghost fleet with sanctions as concern mounts about hybrid attacks

FILE - In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers, from the 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade out of Fort Bragg N.C., conduct live fire testing at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on Dec. 14, 2021, of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile System. Ukraine is having some success in halting Russia's new push along the northeast front weeks after the decision allowing the country to use U.S.-supplied weapons for limited strikes in Russian territory. But commanders say their hands are tied without the ability to use long-range guided missiles, such as ATACMS. (John Hamilton/U.S. Army via AP, File)

As U.S.-supplied weapons show impact inside Russia, Ukrainian soldiers hope for deeper strikes

In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, June 21, 2024, Russian soldiers fire an anti-aircraft gun at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Ukraine claims three oil refinery strikes inside Russia as Moscow says naval attack thwarted

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis exits a voting cabin during European and local elections in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, June 9, 2024. Voters across the European Union are going to the polls on the final day of voting for the European parliamentary elections to choose their representatives for the next five-year term. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

NATO member Romania to send a Patriot missile system to neighboring Ukraine

EU envoys agree on more Russia sanctions. LNG imports are among the targets.

A Ukrainian soldier from the 57th Brigade waits for an order for his artillery vehicle to open fire on Russian positions at the front line in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine employs a flexible defense while waiting for new Western ammo to get to the front

FILE - A Patriot missile mobile launcher is displayed outside the Fort Sill Army Post near Lawton, Okla., on March 21, 2023. Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system. It answers Kyiv's desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles against an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy, File)

US will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system after Kyiv’s desperate calls for air defenses

FILE - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks during her press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, April 2, 2019. Russia has put former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on its wanted list, Russian state media reported on Saturday, June 8, 2024, citing the Interior Ministry’s database. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, file)

Russia puts former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on its wanted list

President Joe Biden delivers a speech during a commemorative ceremony to mark D-Day 80th anniversary, Thursday, June 6, 2024 at the US cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy. Normandy is hosting various events to officially commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that took place on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, Pool)

US to send new $225 million military aid package to Ukraine, officials say.

A Ukrainian serviceman reacts after returning from captivity during POWs exchange in Sumy region, Ukraine, Friday, May 31, 2024. Ukraine returned 75 prisoners, including four civilians, in the latest exchange of POWs with Russia. It's the fourth prisoner swap this year, and 52nd since Russia invaded Ukraine. In all, 3 210 Ukrainian servicemen and civilians were returned since the outbreak of the war. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped

Captured Russian soldiers walk to shelters during an air raid alarm at the prisoner of war detention center in Ukraine's Lviv region, Thursday, April 25, 2024. AP visited the center as part of a small group of journalists on the condition that its exact location be withheld. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian POWs get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don’t. A growing movement wants that to change

EU seals a deal on using profits from frozen Russian assets to help arm Ukraine

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. take part in a press briefing at the Pentagon on Monday, May 20, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Pentagon vows to keep weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces a renewed assault by Russia

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Belbek air base, near Sevastopol, in Crimea, Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Ukraine says it has checked Russia’s offensive in a key town, but Moscow says it will keep pushing

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko sits for an interview at the Urban League of Philadelphia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Yushchenko said the long delay by the U.S. Congress in approving military aid for his country was “a colossal waste of time,” that sent a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to inflict more suffering in the two-year invasion and would only prolong the war. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)

Ex-Ukrainian president says US delay in war aid was ‘colossal’ waste, let Putin inflict more damage

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Police, police evacuate elderly people following the Russian attack around the town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, May 10, 2024. (Ukrainian Police via AP)

Ukraine says Russia is trying to break through its defenses in the northeastern Kharkiv region

A Russian soldier walks past a Leopard 2A6 tank that belonged to the Ukrainian army is seen on display in Moscow. Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The Russian military put some of the equipment captured from Ukrainian forces on display in Moscow. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Kremlin parades Western equipment captured from Ukrainian army at Moscow exhibition

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a press briefing on Friday, April 26, 2024 at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

US announces new Patriot missiles for Ukraine as part of new $6 billion aid package

FILE - Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth looks over the latest version of the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank as she tours the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center, Feb. 16, 2023, in Lima, Ohio. Two U.S. officials say Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia. This is in part because Russian drone warfare has made it too difficult for them to operate without detection or coming under attack. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Ukraine pulls US-provided Abrams tanks from the front lines over Russian drone threats

CORRECTS LOCATION TO BAKHMUT IN PHOTO DETAILS - A Ukrainian serviceman from Code 9.2 unit known by call sign Mamay attaches drop bomb to a drone in the trenches at the frontline, few kilometres from Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Ukraine is putting pressure on fighting-age men outside the country as it tries to replenish forces

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Sgt. Ian Ketterling, gunner for Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade, prepares the crane for loading the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) on to the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in Queensland, Australia, July 26, 2023. U.S. officials say Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles, called ATACMS, striking a Russian military airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in another occupied area overnight. (Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Dickson/U.S. Army via AP)

Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by US to hit Russian-held areas, officials say

Honour guards carry the coffin of Ukrainian army paramedic Nazarii Lavrovskyi, 31, killed in the war, during his funeral ceremony at Independence square in Kyiv, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Lavrovskyi, who served in the 244th battalion of the 112th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade, was killed April 18 while helping to evacuate wounded troops from the frontline in the Kharkiv area of eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Ukraine thanks the US for billions in new military aid to help stop Russia’s advance

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Commander of Ukraine's Ground Forces Col.-Gen. Oleksandr Syrski, right, look at a map during their visit to the front line city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Nov. 30, 2023. Ukraine’s commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrski, said Russia’s top military leadership ordered its soldiers to capture the town of Chasiv Yar by May 9, Russia’s Victory Day, a holiday that marks the defeat of Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Biden will send Ukraine air defense weapons, artillery once Senate approves, Zelenskyy says