Members of Ukraine’s ‘Siberian Battalion’ training near Kyiv, APril 2024.
EPA-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko
Russia is making steady territorial gains in advance of a possible spring offensive. Without western aid Ukraine has few air defences left.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, meets Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy on June 1, 2023.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined bold, long-term goals: Strengthen the country’s depleted military with extraordinary investments and adopt assertive foreign policy defending global norms.
Pleading for help: Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, says his country is running out of the means with which to defend itself.
EPA-EFE/Toms Kalnins
A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Devastation: firefighters at the scene of a Russian bomb attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, April 2024.
EPA-EFE/Yakiv Liashenko
Russia is putting wings and guidance systems on old ‘iron bombs’ and using them to pound Ukraine’s cities.
Farewell to arms: Ukrainians mourn their dead.
AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda
As Ukraine begs its allies for more arms to defend itself, Russia is beginning to advance at several along its front lines.
EPA-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko
While Ukraine’s fortunes on the battlefield have been mixed, its operations in Crimea and the Black Sea have been rather more successful.
Foregone conclusion: a Russian soldier casts his vote at a polling station in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine, March 2024.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Polish forces triumphed over a larger Russian force at the Battle of Stoczek, February 1831.
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Waning support from Poland’s allies meant the war descended to an attritional struggle, giving Russia the advantage it needed to win.
A Ukrainian tank fires at Russian positions in Chasiv Yar, the site of fierce battles in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Feb. 29, 2024.
(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Russia’s armed forces continue to gain territory in Ukraine, at high cost to both sides.
Volodymyr Zelensky autographs a Storm Shadow/SCALP missile.
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Helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression is not a violation of international law – but Russia might interpret it as escalation.
Will war fatigue be a factor?
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Russia appears to have seized the battleground initiative as the Ukraine war marks its second anniversary – but the conflict is far from over.
Efrem Lukatsky/AP
Ukraine has fought off relentless waves of Russian attacks over the past two years, but if its Western support dries up, its resistance will be very hard to sustain.
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Ukraine is just one of a daunting number of security issues facing Nato and the west.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Burnt-out cars after a Russian attack on a residential neighbourhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 10, 2024.
(AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)
With the Ukraine-Russia war entering its third year, Ukraine’s supporters must provide the right aid to the country and domestic politics cannot undermine the urgent needs of the country’s military.
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As the war against Russia moves towards its third anniversary, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is facing a growing list of problems.
At loggerheads: Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and army commander Valeriy Zaluzhny.
EPA-EFE/Michael Reynolds/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP
A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past fortnight.
Under pressure: with things on the battlefield not going well, the last thing Volodymyr Zelensky needs is a corruption scandal in the military.
EPA-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko
As a new Russian offensive gets under way, Ukraine can ill afford to be mired in scandal and disunity.
EPA-EFE/Kateryna Klochko
A selection of our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past fortnight.
Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin Pool/Alamy Live News
Ukraine is short of men and military equipment. It urgently needs security guarantees from the west.