Category: 1. Ukraine

As the war enters its 962nd day, these are the main developments.

Here is the situation on Monday, October 14, 2024:

Fighting

• Kyiv announced that its forces had destroyed a Russian Tu-134 transport aircraft stationed at a military airfield in the…

ON THE OUTSKIRTS of the eastern city of Pokrovsk two women stand waiting for their lift. Like most civilians in the city they have already fled elsewhere, but they have come back to collect some belongings. They are standing by a boarded-up…

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A leading expert on Russian foreign policy, James Nixey heads the Russia and Eurasia Program at Chatham House, a London-based research institute. In a recent interview with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service, Nixey, whose research focuses on the…

As Russia is likely to launch attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure this winter, Kyiv is currently in talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to place foreign observers near its nuclear power plants to protect the country’s…

Ukraine and its war with Russia have become a central and controversial topic in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. The brutal conflict, in which a million people have been killed or severely injured, shows no signs of ending. Kamala…

Volodymyr Zelensky’s situation room, where the Ukrainian President monitors developments in his country’s war with Russia, is a windowless chamber, largely taken up by a rectangular conference table and ringed by blackened screens, deep…