Russia-Ukraine War

FILE - An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Russia grinds deeper into Ukraine after 1,000 days of grueling war

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the conventional wisdom was that the capital, Kyiv, would soon fall and the rest of the country wouldn’t last long against a much larger enemy. Instead, it was that narrative that quickly collapsed.

Flames and smoke rise from a residential building after the attack of Russian drones in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Investigation reveals a Russian factory’s plan to mix decoys with a new deadly weapon in Ukraine

A central streets covered in debris from destroyed residential buildings after Russian bombing in Kurakhove, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka)

Drones strike Moscow as top UK official highlights Russian casualties in Ukraine

A man rides on a bike in front of the mail office which was destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Kurakhove, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka)

As Russian forces close in on Kurakhove, hundreds of residents remain in the front-line city

A dog reacts as self-propelled artillery howitzer "Gvozdika" fires towards Russian positions on the frontline in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

The Pentagon is letting a small number of U.S. defense contractors fix weapons in Ukraine

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Ukrainian servicemen pass the scene of a building damaged by Russian attack in Dnipro, Ukraine, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Ukraine claims it shot down a Russian strategic bomber as Moscow’s missiles kill 8 Ukrainians

Firefighters work on a building that was partially destroyed after a Russian bombardment in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 17 people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Russia reports downing 5 Ukrainian military balloons in Kyiv’s latest apparent war innovation

FILE - The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Officials at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant said that the site was attacked Sunday April 7, 2024, by Ukrainian military drones, including a strike on the dome of the plant’s sixth power unit. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

IAEA warns that attacks on a nuclear plant in Russian-controlled Ukraine put the world at risk

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 11, 2024. (Alexei Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin says 2022 draft document could serve as starting point for future Ukraine peace talks

A Russian officer who goes by Yevgeny speaks during an interview at his apartment in Astana, Kazakhstan, in late 2023. He had a friend shoot him in the leg so he could get out off the frontline in Ukraine. "Many of my friends have died. And these were really good guys who didn't want to fight," he said. "But there was no way out for them." (AP Photo)

Russian soldiers who quit Putin’s war get no hero’s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. NATO foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Wednesday to debate plans to provide more predictable, longer-term support to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO weighs a plan to provide long-term military help to Ukraine as Russian troops assert control

A worker assembles mortar shells at a factory in Ukraine, on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine ramps up spending on homemade weapons to help repel Russia

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, March 18, 2024. European Union foreign ministers on monday will discuss Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Belarus, and the situation in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

European Union pushes ahead with a plan to buy weapons for Ukraine with frozen Russian asset profits

A couple walk past billboards which promote the upcoming presidential election with words in Russian: "Your voice is important" in a street in Luhansk, the capital of Russian-controlled Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday called on people in Ukraine's occupied regions to vote, telling them and Russians that participation in the elections is "manifestation of patriotic feeling," Presidential elections are scheduled in Russia for March 17. (AP Photo)

Ukrainians living under Russian occupation are coerced to vote for Putin

Members of the Bundestag debate during the 157th session of the Bundestag, in Berlin Thursday, March 14, 2024. Topics include the vote on the delivery of the Taurus cruise missile to Ukraine and a debate on the Citizens' Council's recommendations on food policy, the election of a federal police commissioner and the reform of the Federal Police Act. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)

Germany’s parliament rejects a new opposition call to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz answers questions from lawmakers at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany’s Scholz defends his refusal to send Ukraine Taurus missiles, says prudence is a virtue

FILE - Ukrainian soldiers from The 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade prepare to fire a multiple launch rocket system based on a pickup truck towards Russian positions at the front line, near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 5, 2024. Senior U.S. defense officials said Tuesday, March 12, that the Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second from left, and Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, third from left, walk in a residential area damaged by Russian attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece's prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged southern city Wednesday. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

A blast rocks the Ukrainian city of Odesa during a visit by Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister

FILE - Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks during his interview with The Associated Press, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. The U.N. atomic watchdog agency’s director has arrived in Russia for talks on nuclear safety in Ukraine, where a nuclear power plant is at risk amid fighting, Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti reported Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

UN watchdog’s head in Russia to discuss safety of Ukrainian nuclear plant caught in crossfire

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius gives a press statement on the status of an investigation into the German military audio that was leaked by Russia, in Berlin, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. The German government has vehemently rejected allegations that Russia’s leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication Berlin was preparing for war against Russia. The government is at the same time trying to contain the domestic fallout from the leak and promising a quick investigation. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

A German military officer used an unsecured line for a conference call. Russia hacked and leaked it

A Ukrainian officer from The 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade fires a multiple launch rocket system based on a pickup truck towards Russian positions at the front line, near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine claims it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers his speech at the PES congress after main candidate to the next European elections Nicolas Schmit has been elected, in Rome, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Germany investigates after a recording of its officers discussing aid to Ukraine is leaked in Russia

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre right, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, centre left, look at apartment houses damage in the Russian missile attacks in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 1, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine official says Russia massing forces around a key city in the country’s east

Oleksandr, an injured Ukrainian serviceman, lies on a bed inside a medical bus of volunteer battalion "Hospitallers" during evacuation to safe area, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Russian onslaught targets more Ukrainian towns and villages as Ukraine says it shot down 3 warplanes

FILE -In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, a Taurus missile flies during a drill off the country's western coast in South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The German government on Monday vehemently rejected allegations that Russia's leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication that Germany was preparing a war against Russia, while at the same time it sought to contain the domestic fallout from the leak and promised a quick investigation into how it was possible that a conversation by top German military personnel could be intercepted and published. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)

Germany’s Scholz explains his reluctance to send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrives to take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden on Defender of the Fatherland Day, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Ukraine claims it downed another Russian early warning and control plane in a major blow to Moscow

Flowers and toys lie on the ground at a makeshift memorial commemorating victims of a Dec. 30 missile attack by Ukraine in Belgorod, Russia, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Belgorod has come under repeated Ukrainian shelling, and hundreds of bus stops in the city near the border with Ukraine have been reinforced with blocks of concrete and sandbags to protect them from rocket strikes. (AP Photo/Kirill Zarubin)

Russia’s forces turn their focus on Ukraine’s northeast in what may be an ambitious new push

Newly recruited soldiers shout slogans as they celebrate the end of their training at a military base close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. As the third year of war begins, the most sensitive and urgent challenge pressing on Ukraine is whether it can muster enough new soldiers to repel – and eventually drive out – an enemy with far more fighters at its disposal. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Desperate for soldiers, Ukraine weighs unpopular plan to expand the draft

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shakes hand with a soldier during his visit to the front line city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

The humanitarian appeal for Ukraine is only 10% funded for 2024, UN envoy says

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at a news conference following a meeting of the State Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. Putin, who is all but certain to win another six-year term in the March 15-17 presidential election, has sought to consolidate public support by casting the conflict as a fight against the expansionist West that has armed Ukraine in a bid to weaken Russia. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

As the Ukraine war enters a third year, Putin waits for Western support for Kyiv to wither

FILE - A Russian ship named Caesar Kunikov passes through the Dardanelles strait in Turkey en route to the Mediterranean Sea, on Oct. 4, 2015. Ukraine's military said Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024 it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea using naval drones, a report that has not been confirmed by Russian forces. The Caesar Kunikov amphibious ship sank near Alupka, a city on the southern edge of the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014, Ukraine’s General Staff said. It said the ship can carry 87 crew members. (Burak Gezen/DHA via AP, File)

Ukrainian military says it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea

A 71-year-old Ukrainian accused of espionage has died in a Russian prison

This 2023 photo provided by a 32-year-old professional soldier from Medellín, Colombia who goes by the call sign Checho shows him in his combat gear in Donbas, eastern Ukraine. Checho says he was struck by fire from a drone during a rescue operation to save a wounded colleague on the front line after three days of heavy fighting with Russian forces. At the hospital in the Kyiv region, Checho found himself with more than fifty other Colombians, most with light injuries sustained while fighting Russian occupation forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. They are among hundreds of Colombian veterans who have made the journey to Ukraine to help its forces fight the Russians. (Courtesy of Checho via AP)

Ukraine needs more troops fighting Russia. Hardened professionals from Colombia are helping

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks to the media at a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 5., 2024.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

France’s foreign ministry has summoned Russia’s ambassador over French aid workers killed in Ukraine

In this handout photo taken from validated UGC video show flames rising from the scene of a warplane crashed at a residential area near Yablonovo, Belgorod region, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Ukraine claimed Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 it used sea drones to sink a Russian corvette in the Black Sea, while Russian investigators alleged that two Patriot missiles fired by Kyiv’s forces brought down a Russian military transport plane last month. (Validated UGC video via AP)

Ukraine claims its sea drones sank a Russian warship. Moscow says Patriot missiles downed its plane