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HANNA ARHIROVA

HANNA ARHIROVA

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Europe|News|World

Ukraine ramps up spending on homemade weapons to help repel Russia

Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory

Ukraine ramps up spending on homemade weapons to help repel Russia
Europe|News|World

Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to plug a shortfall in troop numbers fighting Russia

Ukraine has lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion

Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to plug a shortfall in troop numbers fighting Russia
Europe|News|World

Massive attack destroys one of Ukraine's largest power plants

Officials say a massive missile and drone attack has destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest power plants and damaged others

Massive attack destroys one of Ukraine's largest power plants
News|Political|World

Ukrainian president signs controversial law to boost conscription to fend off Russia's aggression

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a controversial law, days after it was passed by parliament, potentially helping Kyiv to boost conscription to replenish depleted forces to fend off Russia’s continued aggression

Ukrainian president signs controversial law to boost conscription to fend off Russia's aggression
News|US|World

Ex-Ukrainian president says US delay in war aid was 'colossal' waste, let Putin inflict more damage

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko says the long delay by the U_S_ Congress in approving military aid for his country was “a colossal waste of time.”

Ex-Ukrainian president says US delay in war aid was 'colossal' waste, let Putin inflict more damage
Europe|News|World

Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped

Ukraine and Russia have exchanged prisoners of war, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months

Russia and Ukraine exchange POWs for the first time in months. Bodies of fallen are also swapped
Europe|News|US|World

Ukraine's air force may keep some F-16 warplanes abroad to protect them from Russian strikes

A senior Ukrainian military officer says that the country's air force may keep some of the F-16 fighter jets it’s set to receive from its Western allies at foreign bases to protect them from Russian strikes

Ukraine's air force may keep some F-16 warplanes abroad to protect them from Russian strikes
Economy|Europe|News|World

Zelenskyy appeals for help with Ukraine's energy network as recovery conference opens

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed for short-term help in repairing his country’s electricity network and long-term investment in its energy system

Zelenskyy appeals for help with Ukraine's energy network as recovery conference opens
Europe|News|World

9 killed in Russian aerial attacks on Ukraine ahead of G7 summit aimed at slowing Moscow's offensive

Russian forces have launched new deadly attacks on Ukraine, killing at least nine people a day before a high-profile meeting where leaders of countries that are some of Ukraine’s biggest backers are to discuss how to slow Moscow’s offensive

9 killed in Russian aerial attacks on Ukraine ahead of G7 summit aimed at slowing Moscow's offensive
Europe|News|World

The war between Russia and Ukraine is set to grind on as a diplomatic conference packs little punch

Russia and Ukraine are set to remain locked in battle for the foreseeable future after an international gathering billed as a first step toward peace delivered no eye-catching diplomatic breakthrough that might suggest a coming end to Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II

The war between Russia and Ukraine is set to grind on as a diplomatic conference packs little punch
Europe|News|World

Ukraine claims its drones hit a Russian oil facility, sparking a huge blaze

Ukraine is claiming responsibility for an overnight drone attack on a Russian oil facility that started a massive blaze in the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region

Ukraine claims its drones hit a Russian oil facility, sparking a huge blaze
Europe|News|World

Ukraine’s top EU negotiator says war-torn country won’t seek ‘discount’ on entry commitments

Ukraine’s lead negotiator to join the European Union says the war-torn country is on an “irreversible” course of Western integration after the EU agreed to formally start entry negotiations this week

Ukraine’s top EU negotiator says war-torn country won’t seek ‘discount’ on entry commitments
Europe|News|World

10 Ukrainians held prisoner for years in Russia return home after Vatican mediation

Ten Ukrainians held prisoner for years by Russia have been released with the Vatican's mediation

10 Ukrainians held prisoner for years in Russia return home after Vatican mediation
Europe|News|World

Ukraine’s army retreats from positions as Russia gets closer to seizing strategically important town

A spokesperson for Ukraine’s military said its army has retreated from a neighborhood in the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important town in the eastern Donetsk region which has been reduced to rubble under a months-long Russian assault

Ukraine’s army retreats from positions as Russia gets closer to seizing strategically important town
Europe|Health|News|World

Russia's heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in 4 months kills at least 31 and hits a children's hospital

Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine, damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors

Russia's heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in 4 months kills at least 31 and hits a children's hospital
Europe|Sports|World

At the Paris Olympics, it will no longer be personal for Ukraine's athletes. This time, it's war

For Ukrainian athletes, the Paris Olympics are more than just sports

At the Paris Olympics, it will no longer be personal for Ukraine's athletes. This time, it's war
Sports

Ukrainian high jumper keeps her eye on the raised bar, but her mind is fixed on the war

Ukrainian athletes training for the Paris Olympics are torn between their sports demand for complete concentration on the here and now, and the war back home that is never far from their minds

Ukrainian high jumper keeps her eye on the raised bar, but her mind is fixed on the war
Europe|News|Sports|World

Russia's war threatens Ukraine's Olympic future, not just the present. A young gymnast offers hope

Russia’s war on Ukraine is demolishing the seeds of a sports culture that was a European powerhouse

Russia's war threatens Ukraine's Olympic future, not just the present. A young gymnast offers hope
News|Sports|World

Ukrainian boxer sacrifices Olympic dreams and life to fight against Russia's invasion

More than 400 Ukrainian athletes have been killed since the start of the war, including many of the country's brightest Olympics prospects

Ukrainian boxer sacrifices Olympic dreams and life to fight against Russia's invasion
Health|News|World

Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s largest hospital complicates treatment of kids with cancer

Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in four months has had severe consequences, paralyzing the operations of the country’s largest children’s hospital and severely affecting the young patients already battling life-threatening diseases

Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s largest hospital complicates treatment of kids with cancer
Europe|News|World

Ukraine needs 25 Patriot air defense systems and more F-16 warplanes, President Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country needs 25 Patriot air defense systems to fully defend its airspace and protect the entire country from Russian missile attacks

Ukraine needs 25 Patriot air defense systems and more F-16 warplanes, President Zelenskyy says
Europe|News|World

Russia and Ukraine swap 95 prisoners of war each in their latest exchange

Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, three weeks after their last swap and as part of what have been occasional agreements to send captured troops home

Russia and Ukraine swap 95 prisoners of war each in their latest exchange
Europe|News|World

The Ukrainian army pulls out from another eastern village as Russia smashes defensive positions

A Kyiv official says Ukraine’s army has pulled out from a village in the eastern Donetsk region, surrendering another front-line position as Russian forces blast Ukrainian defenses in a relentless onslaught

Europe|Opinion|Sports

For Ukrainian athletes, joy mixes with sorrow at the Paris Olympics

For Ukrainian competitors in Paris for the Olympics, joy goes hand in hand with sorrow

For Ukrainian athletes, joy mixes with sorrow at the Paris Olympics
Europe|News|Sports|World

Ukraine's Olympic chief celebrates limited Russian presence at Paris Olympics

The head of Ukraine’s Olympic delegation touted the limited numbers of Russian athletes at the Paris Olympics — who must compete as neutrals — as war between the two countries grinds on for a third year

Ukraine's Olympic chief celebrates limited Russian presence at Paris Olympics

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