Jonathan Beale
Defence correspondent
Reporting fromSumy, Ukraine
Artem KariakinUntil just over a week ago, Artem Kariakin and his unit were making regular trips across Ukraine’s…
Category: 1. Ukraine
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Ukraine’s ‘chaotic’ withdrawal from Russia, in its soldiers’ words
Artem KariakinArtem and his unit would regularly cross into Russia – until last week -
EU plan to send more military aid to Ukraine in shambles – POLITICO
Kallas’ failure to push through her plan underlines the difficulty of corralling all 27 countries in a common direction.
The blow to Kallas’ authority is evident. “If you say everywhere, as she does and she’s right, that we need to…
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Putin is ruthlessly erasing Ukrainian identity in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Ukrainians living under Russian occupation to “legalize” their status by…
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Trump admin. halts funds for tracking abducted Ukrainian children : NPR
Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, is among a group of lawmakers who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking…
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Zelenskyy doubts Putin’s pledge after drone strikes and expects details of the Trump-Putin call
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia agreed in principle to a limited ceasefire after President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders this week, though it remains to be seen when it might…
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Ukrainians tortured, raped, executed by Russian captors, Human Rights Council hears
The Council – the UN’s foremost human rights forum – also heard updates on allegations of ongoing abuses in Belarus, North Korea and Myanmar.
According to the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, enforced disappearances of civilians committed…
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An open-source tool for mapping war destruction at scale in Ukraine using Sentinel-1 time series
Data
All the data used in this work can be found freely available online.
Reference damage assessments
To the best of our knowledge, the only public, georeferenced datasets that provide building-level damage information for Ukraine are the UNOSAT…
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Statement from Secretary Rubio and NSA Waltz on Call with Zelenskyy
Today, President Donald J. Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a fantastic phone conversation. President Zelenskyy thanked President Trump for a productive start for the work of the Ukrainian and American teams…
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Opinion | Why No One Should Trust This Trump-Putin Phone Call
Ever since President Trump returned to office and began trying to make good on his boast about ending the Ukraine war in days, thanks to his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, I’ve had this gnawing concern that something was…
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Trump, Putin agree to immediate ceasefire for energy infrastructure in Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a lengthy call Tuesday to an immediate pause in strikes against energy infrastructure in the Ukraine war, but…
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