A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Keeping faith: Volodymyr Zelensky poses for a selfie with Ukrainian troops near the frontlines in Chasiv Yar.
Handout/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/Alamy Live News
The promised weapons will give Ukraine some breathing space on the battlefield, but victory against Russia is far from assured.
Georgians attend a protest against a bill on ‘foreign agents’ near the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 16 2024.
David Mdzinarishvili / EPA
Russia is making steady territorial gains in advance of a possible spring offensive. Without western aid Ukraine has few air defences left.
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in February 2024.
EPA-EFE/Sergei Bobylev/Sputnik/Kremlin pool
Tension in the western Balkans, which has been troubled by ethnic tensions since the wars of the 1990s, is becoming an increasing concern for the EU and Nato.
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
Russia has long harboured territorial ambitions in this former Soviet republic.
Vladimir Putin speaking during a concert in Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 10th anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia.
Sergei Ilnitsky / EPA
Many western governments have called Putin’s election ‘illegitimate’. Now they need to adjust their diplomatic relations accordingly.
A Russian National Guard servicemen secures an area as a massive blaze seen over the Crocus City Hall in Moscow. An Islamic State affiliate has claimed responsibility for the attack on the concert hall that killed over 130 people.
(AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)
Ukraine has denied any involvement in the terrorist attack that killed dozens of people in Moscow, but that doesn’t mean Russia won’t try to use the event as a way to escalate its war with Ukraine.