KYIV — Ripe cherries and apricots fill the stalls of fruit vendors, while people bustle about on a scorching July Friday. Yet just a five-minute walk from the stand, the scene shifts dramatically: a gaping hole mars the five-story residential building where the stairwell once stood. Rescuers tirelessly sift through the rubble, and a fragment […]
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a Democrat, has been released after being held for only a few hours for allegedly assaulting an immigration official on Tuesday. While Lander, who is running for mayor of New York City, is now being held up as a hero by many progressives, some say his arrest was more […]
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. At least eight people were injured as multiple waves of explosions rocked Kyiv overnight on May 24 during a massive Russian drone and missile attack. Two people were injured in the Dniprovskyi district, other wounded were treated in the Sviatoshynskyi and Obolonskyi districts, Kyiv […]
Russia targeted Ukraine with its largest single drone attack yet just hours ahead of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin about ending the war. Russia on Sunday fired a total of 273 exploding drones and decoys targeting Ukraine’s Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, according to Ukraine’s air force. Of those, 88 were intercepted […]
In the past 24 hours, Russian attacks have killed at least 13 people and injured 32 across Ukraine, according to local athorities. Russian forces launched a massive drone assault across Ukraine overnight, using 62 drones including Shahed-type attack UAVs and decoy drones from Russia and occupied Crimea, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. Ukrainian air defenses […]
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 3 that Ukraine’s military destroyed a second Russian military aircraft within a 24-hour time period, having struck a military airfield in occupied Crimea. The strike follows the downing of a Russian Su-30 fighter jet earlier on May 3 […]
When an “unprecedented” cyberattack hit the computer networks of Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) on March 23, the company’s staff gave up any idea of getting a good night’s sleep for the foreseeable future. “Everyone is working around the clock. This is no joke,” Anastasia Zolotaryova, Ukrzaliznytsia spokesperson told the Kyiv Independent on March 26, already spending […]
U.S. President Donald Trump has said efforts to end the war in Ukraine are “somewhat under control” just hours before a massive Russian drone strike on Kyiv killed three people including a five-year-old girl and her father. Speaking to the sports media outlet OutKick on March 22, Trump said he has had “very rational discussions” […]
Ukrainians and foreign donors have sent over 27 million hryvnia ($649,000) in donations to the fundraiser “for nukes” that was opened immediately after the publicized White House clash between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky. The “for nukes” reference serves as a joke that refers to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s previous assertions that if […]