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Actor Mykhailo Terschenko, second from left, acknowledges the audience at the end of the play “Shevchenko 2.0” at the Franko Theater in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) MAL539 MAL539

November 18, 2024 at 9:11 pm

1,000 days of war in Ukraine, distilled in a single 24-hour span of violence and resilience VIEW

The Associated Press fanned out across Ukraine to chronicle a typical 24 hours of life just as the country was about to mark 1,000 days...

November 15, 2024 at 9:13 pm

Investigation reveals a Russian factory’s plan to mix decoys with a new deadly weapon in Ukraine VIEW

A high-tech factory in central Russia has created a new, deadly force to attack Ukraine: A small number of highly destructive thermobaric drones surrounded by...

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November 15, 2024 at 9:09 pm

Operation False Target: How Russia plotted to mix a deadly new weapon among decoy drones in Ukraine VIEW

At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect...

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FILE — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, left, listens as former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, speaks at Trump Tower in New York, Sept. 27, 2024. Trump blamed Zelensky of Ukraine for Russia’s invasion of his country in a podcast interview released on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, inverting the facts of the largest military action in Europe since the Second World War. The war began when President Vladimir Putin of Russia massed troops on the border and then invaded Ukraine, sending in troops and launching airstrikes on Feb. 24, 2022. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT0068 XNYT0068

November 6, 2024 at 4:22 am

On Ukraine’s front and in Kyiv, hope and pragmatism compete when it comes to Trump’s election VIEW

Soldiers in a Ukrainian artillery battery on the front lines of the country’s east were only vaguely aware of American election results pointing to Donald...

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October 30, 2024 at 9:27 pm

Takeaways from AP story on Ukrainian schools built underground to guard against bombs and radiation

Most of the Russian weapons that hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia kill in an instant: the drones, the ballistic missiles, the glide bombs, the...

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October 30, 2024 at 9:19 pm

Ukrainian front-line school system goes underground to protect against bombs and radiation VIEW

To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life against the Russian weapons within striking distance.

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October 9, 2024 at 9:12 pm

Takeaways from an AP investigation of Russia recruiting Africans to make drones for use in Ukraine VIEW

Russia has recruited about 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students, including teenagers, assembling thousands of...

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October 9, 2024 at 9:05 pm

Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine VIEW

Russia is recruiting young African women to work at a factory producing drones for use in Ukraine amid a labor shortage.

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September 3, 2024 at 4:40 am

Russian missiles blast Ukrainian military academy and hospital, killing more than 50, officials say

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says two Russian ballistic missiles have struck a military training facility and hospital in a central-eastern region of Ukraine.

September 1, 2024 at 4:06 am

Ukrainian front-line students celebrate back-to-school despite ever-present air raid alarms VIEW

Just hours after a dawn air raid alarm rang through the city, Zaporizhzhia schoolchildren have celebrated the traditional first day of school.