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Poland says it’s willing to provide Ukraine with German-made tanks, adding pressure on Berlin to agree. The president of Poland said on Wednesday that his country was prepared to send German-made Leopard II tanks to Ukra…

The prior military leader is now a deputy to the newly named chief. Russia has replaced its military chief in Ukraine with a Kremlin insider, dashing calls from Moscow ultranationalists for a radical overhaul of the lead…

Putin calls on government officials to improve living conditions in annexed areas of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday urged Russian government officials to work hard to improve living conditions in the regi…

Russia posts a $47 billion budget deficit for 2022, its second highest in the post-Soviet era. Strained by the need to finance its war machine, the Russian government said on Tuesday that it had posted a $47 billion budg…

Russian Mercenary Group Says It Has Taken Contested Ukrainian Town The head of a Russian mercenary group fighting in Ukraine claimed on Tuesday that his fighters had seized the town of Soledar, the site of brutal combat…

Soledar, a small city in eastern Ukraine, is the focus of fierce fighting. The small salt-mining city of Soledar in eastern Ukraine has become a focal point of fierce fighting, part of a broader push in the Bakhmut area…

Zelensky says Ukraine’s tough fighting in the east has allowed time for critical reinforcements. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine says he plans to send more troops and some of the newest weapons provided by allies…

Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut Russia and Ukraine are conducting one of the longest-running battles of the war in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Shell craters are ubiquitous; t…

The fight over Soledar underscores the divisions between Russia’s Army and a Russian mercenary force. Even as Russia engages in a grinding battle for territory in eastern Ukraine, there are signs of continued disarray an…

Heavy fighting and competing claims surround the key eastern city of Bakhmut. Fierce fighting was raging on Monday around the heavily contested city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian and Russian officials said, with claims and count…

Ukraine moves ‘step by step’ as the pace slows in carrying out offensives in the east. “We are moving forward little by little, step by step,” Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, said on Sunday in a post on…

Now Fighting for Ukraine: Volunteers Seeking Revenge Against Russia Ukraine’s military commanders have long said they do not lack soldiers for the war, but they have nonetheless welcomed to their ranks thousands of volun…

Ukrainians Celebrate Orthodox Christmas at a Holy Site Long Linked to Moscow Worshipers gathered at Ukraine’s most historically significant monastery on Saturday to celebrate Orthodox Christmas in much the same way that…

Ukrainians Celebrate Orthodox Christmas at a Holy Site Long Linked to Moscow Confronting the divide among the Orthodox faithful in Ukraine, the head of the church that is loyal to Kyiv delivered a Christmas sermon for th…

New Armored Vehicles Will Help Ukraine Take the Fight to Russia News Analysis: The three new types of armored vehicles that Washington, Paris and Berlin offered to Kiev this week seem to mark a policy shift among the Wes…

There’s no sign of a cease-fire on the war’s most hotly contested front. In the most intense battle now raging in Ukraine, the starting time of what Russia said would be a 36-hour cease-fire came and went on Friday. And…

The U.S. imposes sanctions on more Iranians over the drones Russia is using in Ukraine. The U.S. government on Friday announced sanctions against Iranians involved in building drones that Russia has used to strike Ukrain…

Battered and Strained by War, Ukraine’s Economy Adapts to Survive Despite major battlefield defeats in its invasion, the Kremlin’s relentless war effort has sown economic havoc atop a devastating humanitarian toll in Ukr…

Russia’s frontline attacks showed no signs of abating in the run-up to Putin’s cease-fire. A unilateral Russian cease-fire announced for Friday appeared to have little effect in its early hours, as fighting continued and…

Analysts and Ukrainian officials see Putin’s cease-fire order as a public relations ploy. The Russian president’s decision to order his troops to implement a brief cease-fire over an Orthodox Christian holiday was less l…

The U.S. and Germany pledge to send Ukraine armored fighting vehicles and another Patriot system. The announcement was the first pledge of Western-made infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine and a significant escalation o…

‘Fear Still Remains’: Ukraine Finds Sexual Crimes Where Russian Troops Ruled Ukraine says Russian troops used sexual crimes against civilians as a weapon of war where they ruled. Russian officials have denied the abuses.…

Citing a security stalemate, the U.N. disbands a fact-finding mission into a prison explosion in the east. A fact-finding mission to a notorious Russian prison camp in eastern Ukraine, where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners…

A senior Ukrainian official dismisses Russia’s call for a truce. President Vladimir Putin of Russia has ordered his Defense Ministry to implement a short cease-fire along the front line in Ukraine for the Russian Orthodo…

Russia issues the first pardons to prisoners who fought in Ukraine, state media reports. The head of Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group said that a first group of prisoners whom it recruited to fight in Ukraine have comp…

Putin says he is deploying hypersonic weapons by ship, but whether they work as Russia claims is uncertain. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday sent a frigate on a mission to the Atlantic Ocean that he said was equippe…

Ukraine Claims Heavy Russian Losses in Waves of Missile Strikes Ukraine has claimed a string of successful artillery attacks on Russian barracks in the first days of the year, asserting that it hit newly drafted men and…

Macron promises to send armored reconnaissance vehicles to Ukraine. France has promised to send Ukraine armored combat vehicles, in another sign of the West’s slow but steady escalation of support for Kyiv’s war effort a…

Lacking precision missiles, Russia is increasing its use of drones, Ukraine says. Russia is struggling to replenish its stockpiles of missiles but still has enough for more large-scale strikes and is rushing new munition…

Russia says soldiers’ cellphone use led to deadly Makiivka strike. As anger mounts in Russia over one the deadliest strikes on Moscow’s forces in the war, official blame has fallen on the targeted soldiers themselves, wi…