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Ukrainian authorities say Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks across 10 of Ukraine’s 24 regions.

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Ukrainian officials have reported intense combat as Russian forces relentlessly assault the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka.

A Russian missile attack in Ukraine has killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother.

Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for it after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

Ukraine is marking its second Independence Day since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

A German shepherd that was injured during a rocket attack in northeastern Ukraine is now training with the police department in Hungary's capital.

Officials say Ukrainian air defenses have shot down more than 30 Russian cruise missiles and drones in Moscow’s sixth air attack in six days on Kyiv.

There is activity at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, but it’s not what scientists at this cutting-edge nuclear laboratory trained for.

Ukrainian authorities say weekend shelling by Russian forces killed at least seven civilians.

Ukraine’s president has made his third visit in two days to areas that have felt the brunt of Russia’s invasion.

The Pentagon's inspector general says his office has found no evidence yet that any of the billions of dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine has been lost to corruption or diverted into the wrong hands.

The anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women who gave birth and men who became fathers a year ago, on Feb. 24, 2022, as bombs began to fall.

Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s invasion, more than 100 young circus performers still hold intensive daily training sessions in Budapest while waiting to see what an uncertain future holds.

The Ukrainian presidential office says Russian shelling has killed at least five people and wounded 13 others over the past 24 hours.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to provide tanks and artillery systems to Ukraine amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting multiple Ukrainian cities for the first time in nearly two weeks.

Russian missiles struck Ukraine in the biggest wave of strikes in weeks, hitting power stations and other critical infrastructure Thursday during freezing winter weather.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Moscow is ready for talks to end the war in Ukraine.

Just a year ago, Sophia Square in Kyiv was all about the big Christmas tree and thousands of lights spreading over the plaza.

The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar “cemetery,” one that recalls some of the worst damage done since the Russian invasion: the debris of rockets used against this town and its people.

As temperatures drop below freezing in eastern Ukraine, those who haven’t already fled from the heavy fighting and months of Russian occupation are now facing a brutal winter.

A series of explosions have rocked the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv, sending towering plumes of illuminated smoke in the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions.

Seven Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine say they were beaten and tortured for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region.

Only now are Ukrainian soldiers able to retrieve the bodies of dead soldiers from a region near the Russian border that was the scene of fierce fighting for months over the summer.

Izium, in far eastern Ukraine, was among the first cities taken by Russian forces after the war started on Feb. 24 and became a command center for the occupying forces.

Pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin has mounted on the battlefield and in the halls of global power.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a rare foray outside Ukraine's capital and highlighted Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Ukrainian troops are piling pressure on retreating Russian forces, pressing deeper into occupied territory and sending more Kremlin troops fleeing ahead of their counteroffensive.

Ukraine's counteroffensive in the northeastern part of the country seemed to catch Russia by surprise in the nearly 7-month-old war.

Fear forms the backdrop of life among the boarded-up windows and blast-scarred buildings of Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Ukrainian troops expanded their territorial gains by pushing all the way back to the country’s northeastern border in places.

Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure, causing widespread outages across Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces pressed a swift counteroffensive that has driven Moscow’s troops out of swaths of territory it had occupied in the northeast.

As the war in Ukraine marks 200 days, the country has reclaimed broad swaths of the south and east in a long-anticipated counteroffensive, dealing a heavy blow to Russia.

Russia’s Defense Ministry says it's pulling back forces from two areas in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made significant advances in the past week.

Defense officials say that as other nations see the impact of U.S. weapons in the Ukraine war, the Pentagon is getting more requests for them.

Ukrainian forces are claiming new success in their counteroffensive against Russian forces in the east, taking control of a sizeable village and pushing toward an important transport junction.

Ukrainian firefighters known for rescuing people from buildings shelled in war helped a small, furry survivor this weekend — a gray-and-white kitten.

A Ukrainian paramedic who won praise for his bravery in the siege of Mariupol now works to save soldiers on the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia.

Ukraine’s health care system already was struggling due to corruption, mismanagement and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Russian military has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s Kaliningrad region.

Russian forces have fired missiles and shells at cities and towns across Ukraine, attacks that Ukrainian officials say killed at least 17 more civilians.

Ukrainian authorities say Russian missile strikes in the southern city of Mykolaiv have killed at least five people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded a fast-track procedure to give Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians.

A woman in eastern Ukraine had gone out to feed the cats when the shelling began in a residential neighborhood.

Foreign analysts say Russia may be temporarily easing its offensive in Ukraine as it attempts to reconstitute its forces for a renewed assault.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds into its fifth month, some residents close to the front lines remain in shattered and nearly abandoned neighborhoods.

Russia has redoubled its push for Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, with the Ukrainian military claiming to have repelled some advances.

Ukraine's national police chief says authorities are investigating the killings of more than 12,000 Ukrainians nationwide in the war since the Russian invasion in February.

Russian and Ukrainian troops are trading blows in fierce close-quarter combat in an eastern Ukraine city.

The mayor of Sievierodonetsk says the Ukrainian city is holding out, although a Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group went into a city hotel.

The city of Mariupol looks like it will be in Russian hands shortly after hundreds of the remaining Ukrainian soldiers were ordered to evacuate.

Ukrainian officials say the regiment that doggedly defended a steel mill as Ukraine’s last stronghold in the port city of Mariupol has completed its mission.

Nearly three months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Ukraine says Russian forces are withdrawing from around Ukraine’s second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks.

Dozens of Ukrainians are feared dead after a Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in eastern Ukraine.

Many Ukrainian scientists are continuing their research and teaching even amid Russia's war.

The war in Ukraine has wracked the country’s southern coast as Russian forces fire cruise missiles at the city of Odesa and bombard a steel mill in the port of Mariupol where Ukrainian civilians and fighters had sought safety.

The outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are beginning to have the feel of an open-air morgue.

Ukrainian authorities are cracking down on anyone suspected of aiding Russian troops under laws enacted by Ukraine’s parliament and signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Feb. 24 invasion.

The United Nations is working doggedly to broker an evacuation of civilians suffering in the ruins of Mariupol.

Russia mounted attacks across a wide area of Ukraine on Thursday, bombarding Kyiv during a visit by the head of the United Nations.

The mother and grandmother of a 15-year-old boy have wept over the teen’s body in the partially blockaded Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Russian shelling has increased in recent days.

Russia has resumed scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond after warning that it planned to step up missile strikes on the capital.

Ukraine is sending top officials to Washington for next week’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

More than 900 bodies of civilians were discovered in the Kyiv region following the withdrawal of Russian forces.

President Joe Biden has called Russia’s war on Ukraine a genocide and he's accused Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes.

Millions of Ukrainians have fled their country, but Sasha Kaverina did just the opposite.

With its aspirations for a quick victory dashed by a stiff Ukrainian resistance, Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine’s military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of the country’s territory to end the war.

Around 100 young Ukrainian students of circus arts fled their country as Russian bombings made conditions there too dangerous to remain.

Alevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during World War II.

Vera Lytovchenko has become an internet icon of resilience as images of the accomplished violinist playing in a basement bomb shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have inspired an international audience via social media.

Annamaria Maslovska left her friends, her toys and her life in Ukraine and set off on a days-long journey with her mother toward safety in the West.

The U.N. refugee agency says 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded the country a week ago, setting off the swiftest exodus of refugees this century.

Thousands of Indians studying in Ukraine have suddenly found themselves in the midst of war after Russia invaded the country last week, with many hunkered inside bunkers and fearful of what lies ahead.

A hospital basement in Ukraine’s coastal city of Mariupol has transformed into a bomb shelter and maternity ward amid shelling during Russia’s invasion.

Last week, this group of friends were making dinner plans. This week, they’re spending their nights sleeping in a makeshift bomb shelter in their basement.

The dust, debris and the dead lying in Kharkiv’s central Freedom Square are showing Ukrainians what might become of other cities if Russia’s invasion isn’t countered in time.

Associated Press journalists are documenting military activity across Ukraine, where disinformation is spiking during a Russian ground and air offensive.

At dawn on Thursday, Ukrainians’ uneasy efforts at normality were shattered.

The U.S. Senate is sending a show of support for an independent Ukraine.

Some people in Ukraine's second-largest city are preparing to fight back if Russia invades.

Talks to stave off the threat of war in Eastern Europe moved to the United Nations Security Council.

Ukraine's president is pleading with citizens to get vaccinated as daily infections have soared to another all-time high.

In this TV grab released by Ukraine's Emergency Situation Ministry, an AN-26 military plane bursts into flames after it crashed in the town of Chuguyiv close to Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. (Emergency Situation Ministry via AP)MOSCOW – Searchers combing the area where a Ukrainian military aircraft crashed found two more bodies on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 26. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared Saturday to be a day of mourning for the crash victims and ordered that flights of An-26 planes be halted pending investigation of the crash cause. The An-26 is a transport plane used by both military and civilian operators. The age of the plane that crashed Friday was not immediately reported.