This weekly update from the Kyiv Independent aims to shed light on the situation facing Ukrainians living under Russian occupation and the tight control of information imposed by the Kremlin. Key ...

Ukraine says Russian occupation authorities in Mariupol are cutting off utilities to apartments as part of a process to identify and seize homes.

Mariupol was reportedly the first target, with strikes hitting an ammunition warehouse, sparking explosions. Some reports ...

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,474. Culture Front.

According to the National Resistance Center of Ukraine, apartments are being cut off from essential services such as ...

Nearly four years into its full-scale invasion, Russia controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory. Many of the estimated 3 million to 5 million people who remain in regions under Moscow’s control face ...

In Mariupol and across the Azov region, Greek communities maintain Rumeika, a rare dialect that links them to the Byzantine Empire.

The city of Kherson was captured by Russia shortly after it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. After seven ...

Drones, heavy casualties and marginal territorial gains have turned the war into a prolonged stalemate.

The Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the night of March 1 destroyed an Imbir radar station and a launcher-loader self-propelled unit of the S-300V surface-to-air missile ...

Oksana Halchenko has shared her journey from fleeing Ukraine to rebuilding her life in Redcar and Cleveland under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Ukrainian war planes launched UK-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles, Russian sources said, in a deadly strike on the ...