Latest "war" stories

Russia blasts Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities in deadly strikes

The morning strikes sent Kyiv residents back into bomb shelters for the first time in months.

6 months ago

People walk past a crater from an explosion on Mira Avenue (Avenue of Peace) in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. The surrounded southern city of Mariupol, where the Russian war on Ukraine has produced some of the greatest human suffering, remained cut off despite earlier talks on creating aid or evacuation convoys. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US Air Force’s view of ‘near-peer’ Russia unchanged by war in Ukraine

Russia’s failure to swiftly overrun Ukraine has shown Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall that Russia remains a “near-peer” nation.

By Rachel S. Cohen and Stephen Losey

12 months ago

Ukraine says it killed another high-ranking Russian military leader

Vitaliy Gerasimov, a major general of the Russian Army, “was eliminated” near Kharkiv, according to Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate.

By Howard Altman

13 months ago

Around-the-clock NATO air patrols fly to keep Russia at bay

NATO has nearly doubled the usual number of military jets on alert across Europe.

By Rachel S. Cohen

13 months ago

Lviv is turning its factories into improvised weapon centers

Scores of residents assembled in Lviv’s picturesque old town square devising imaginative ways to defend their city. Some made camouflage nets for the military while others manufactured hundreds of Molotov cocktails.

By Askold Krushelnycky

13 months ago

No, EU countries aren’t sending fighter jets to Ukraine

"NATO is not to be part of the conflict,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday.

By Rachel S. Cohen

13 months ago