In Borodianka, a Ukrainian town in the Bucha district, northwest of Kyiv, 81-year-old Taisia Herasymenko says her son was shot dead by Russian soldiers. She is seeking justice and hopes a trial will come soon. The case is one of many that Ukrainian and i...

Estonia is banning Russian tourists from entering the country, and calling for the rest of Europe to follow. Some say the ban punishes ordinary Russians, while others argue it sends a powerful message.

There is "heavy fighting" in "almost the entire territory" of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson occupied by Russian troops, Ukraine's presidency said. The clashes were raging after Ukrainian troops on Monday launched a counter-offensive seeking to...

Some call it a second front in the Ukrainian war — the fight to control the narrative. While Zelenskyy has reached audiences around the world with his nightly speeches, Russia is also vying for attention with a well-funded propaganda campaign. DW's head o...

A Russian strike on a Ukrainian railway station killed 15 people and wounded 50 others, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech to the UN Security Council, meant to mark Ukraine's Independence Day and six months since the invasion began. "I have ju...

A series of blasts at military facilities have prompted residents and tourists to evacuate Crimea, an area of Ukraine that has been controlled by Russia since 2014. Here’s why the peninsula, a key base for Moscow’s forces, is a new front in this war.

Since March, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been under Russian occupation. Since late July, the largest nuclear plant in Europe...

Ukraine's governor of the Kharkiv Oblast, Oleh Synehubov, reported renewed dawn shelling of the city of Kharkiv on Thursday morning. "At the moment, there are 18 wounded, among them two children; one person died," Synehubov wrote on the Telegram social m...

An ammunitions depot has exploded in Crimea, a week after similar blasts rocked a Russian airbase on the annexed peninsula. The Russian Defence Ministry originally attributed the blasts to a fire at a military warehouse, but now says the damage is the res...

As Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine continues, we look at how Putin degenerated from a corrupt but measured autocrat, to a delusional tyrant at war the with West. In this video we look at 4 stages of degeneration Vladimir Putin went through as leader o...

Himars – long-range rocket launchers from the U.S. – have helped Ukraine target Russian ammunition stores, command posts and fuel depots, slowing down Moscow’s forces. As Washington sends more weapons, WSJ looks at why Kyiv is asking for other advanced to...

Russian weaponry is far behind the expectations that had been created. And it has proven in Ukraine to be a real disaster. But why? For years, Russia made the whole world believe that it had an enviable military industry. While we all know that the Russ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health has been a topic of global discussion after footage showed him coughing, walking stiffly and seemingly tired. WSJ looks at how his on-camera appearances are being scrutinized amid the war in Ukraine and questions...

As Europeans suffer high energy costs and the prospect of a rough winter, some have begun to ask if Western sanctions against Russia were in fact an own goal. On the face of it, Russia’s economy is not going through the meltdown once predicted and Moscow...

A strategic defeat for Russia is cataclysmic for Putin's hold on power in Russia." Russia "will be tempted to reach for the small nuclear weapons" if it senses it's lost the war in Ukraine, says General Sir Richard Barrons.