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Zelensky Offers Grim Stats on Ukrainian Troops

President says 60 to 100 soldiers are dying daily, but some note this will only galvanize Ukrainians

(Newser) - As soon as they'd finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won't stay that way for long. Col. Oleksandr Makhachek left behind a...

Zelensky: Russia Holds 20% of Ukraine
Russia Controls 20%
of Ukraine: Zelensky
the rundown
Jun 2, 2022 5:17 PM CDT

Russia Controls 20% of Ukraine: Zelensky

US admits to conducting offensive cyber operations to aid Ukraine

(Newser) - After nearly 100 days of fighting, Russia holds one-fifth of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday. In a video address to the Parliament of Luxembourg, he said the battle is being waged from Kharkiv in the nation's northeast to Mykolaiv in the south, a distance of more than 1,...

Zelensky Talks 'One of Russia's Most Heinous War Crimes'

He says 200K children have been forcibly taken to Russia; millions of others are displaced

(Newser) - About two out of every three children in Ukraine have been displaced since war erupted nearly 100 days ago, according to the United Nations' children's agency. More than 5 million children—3 million in Ukraine and over 2.2 million in refugee-hosting countries—are in need of humanitarian assistance,...

Ukraine Will Get What It's Been Asking For

Biden confirmed the US will send advanced rocket systems

(Newser) - The US will supply Ukraine with advanced rocket systems to "help it strike enemy forces more precisely from a longer distance," per the BBC. Ukrainian officials have been begging for longer-range weapons to counter Russian firepower, which has pummeled cities and Ukrainian military positions in the Donbas region...

EU Adds Partial Oil Embargo
EU Adds Partial Oil Embargo
May 30, 2022 8:11 PM CDT

EU Adds Partial Oil Embargo

Zelensky pressed council to increase pressure on Putin

(Newser) - European Union leaders reached a compromise Monday to impose a partial oil embargo on Russia at a summit focused on helping Ukraine with a long-delayed package of sanctions that was blocked by Hungary. The watered-down embargo covers only Russian oil brought in by sea, allowing a temporary exemption for imports...

Zelensky Suggests New Talks, on One Condition

Ukraine leader says Russia must not harm troops who surrendered at Mariupol

(Newser) - Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have not met for about a month, but Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky says he's open to restarting talks. “Under what format I don’t know—with intermediaries, without them, in a broader group, at the presidential level,” he said in a TV interview,...

Ukraine Ends Battle Over Mariupol Plant

Zelensky says it's time to evacuate 'Ukrainian heroes'

(Newser) - The battle of the Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol is over, Ukraine announced Monday. The mission has turned to one of evacuation, President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "We hope to save the lives of our boys." He praised the troops who withstood the Russian attack for weeks while protecting...

GOP Senators Make Unannounced Trip to Kyiv

Zelensky welcomes display 'of bipartisan support'

(Newser) - The latest unannounced trip to Ukraine by US politicos was made Saturday by four Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the visit as "a strong signal of bipartisan support for Ukraine," the Washington Post reports. The meeting was announced Saturday by Zelensky's...

Meet Patron, Ukraine's Latest War Hero

President Zelensky awards Jack Russell terrier a medal for his mine-sniffing work

(Newser) - A very special awards ceremony was held over the weekend in Kyiv to honor the nation's newest hero amid the Russian invasion: a 2 1/2-year-old dog named Patron, reports the BBC . A medal was bestowed upon the Jack Russell terrier at a Sunday news conference by none other than...

G7 Nations Agree on More Steps Against Russia

Statement scolds Putin ahead of WWII victory celebration

(Newser) - Leaders of the Group of 7 nations agreed Sunday to another round of punishments for Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine: a ban on Russian oil imports and more sanctions. The decisions were announced after a virtual meeting that included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as President Biden, USA ...

Lavrov&#39;s Remarks on Zelensky, Hitler Draw Outrage From Israel
Israel: Putin
Apologized
Over Hitler
Comment
UPDATED
May 5, 2022 1:40 PM CDT

Israel: Putin Apologized Over Hitler Comment

Russia's foreign minister said Hitler had 'Jewish blood'

(Newser) - Update: Israel says Vladimir Putin has apologized for his foreign minister's controversial remarks about Hitler, reports the BBC . Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Putin apologized during a phone call for the comments made by Sergey Lavrov that Hitler had "Jewish blood," like Ukraine's leader. Bennett...

Kyiv Asks Residents to Stop Driving
Kyiv Asks Residents
to Stop Driving
May 1, 2022 11:02 AM CDT

Kyiv Asks Residents to Stop Driving

Zelensky says he's working on solving fuel shortage but it's not easy

(Newser) - Long lines of cars form at gas stations in Ukraine—if they have any fuel to sell. Many flash a zero on their signs next to each fuel type, meaning there's no supply. At most stations with gas, drivers are allowed to only to buy about 2½ gallons at...

Pelosi Makes Unannounced Trip to Meet Zelensky

Congressional delegation travels to Kyiv, Ukraine

(Newser) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Saturday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and demonstrate that he had the support of the US Congress, per the AP . Pelosi is the most senior American lawmaker to visit Ukraine since Russia's war began more than two...

Zelensky's Wife Says She Sees Him Only on TV

The war hasn't changed her husband, Olena Zelenska tells newspaper

(Newser) - Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, says the war with Russia has not changed her husband but only revealed to the world his determination to prevail and the fact that he is a man you can count on. Zelenska, in an interview published Friday in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, also...

Blinken, Austin: US Diplomats Returning to Ukraine
US Comes Bearing
Aid to Ukraine
Apr 25, 2022 6:22 AM CDT

US Comes Bearing Aid to Ukraine

Hundreds of millions in new military assistance, and the return of US diplomats

(Newser) - Top American officials promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hundreds of millions of dollars in new aid during the highest-level US visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion two months earlier, while Britain said Monday that Moscow has yet to achieve a significant breakthrough in its offensive in...

Austin, Blinken Will Be in Kyiv on Sunday, Zelensky Says

White House and Pentagon don't immediately confirm trip

(Newser) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that he didn't think it was a "big secret" that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are on their way to see him, but American officials acted like it was. Zelensky mentioned the visit during a press...

Zelensky Says Major Russian Offensive Has Begun

He says 'battle of the Donbas' is underway in eastern Ukraine

(Newser) - The long-expected major Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine is now underway, with Russian forces trying to push forward along a front around 300 miles long, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. "We can now say that Russian forces have started the battle of the Donbas, for which they have...

Russia Closes In on Mariupol
Mariupol Teeters as
Russia Pounds Ukraine
the rundown
Apr 16, 2022 5:55 PM CDT

Mariupol Teeters as Russia Pounds Ukraine

Zelensky warns against atrocities after takeover

(Newser) - Russian forces were close to seizing Mariupol on Saturday, with defense officials in Moscow saying the only significant opposition in the city was the 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers surrounded at a huge steel plant. There's no way out for the troops, a Russian defense ministry spokesman said, per the ...

Ukraine Gives Finger to Russia via Stamp

It's serves to 'remind the invaders that they should ... follow their ship'

(Newser) - There's now an obscene gesture featured on Ukrainian postage stamps in honor of a key moment of defiance amid Russia's invasion. Some 1 million of the stamps have been introduced into circulation, according to a Tuesday announcement from Ukrainian postal service Ukrposhta, per the Jerusalem Post . On Instagram,...

Zelensky: Russians 'Gave Us a Maximum of 5' Days

And yet Thursday marked day 50

(Newser) - President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians on Thursday they should be proud of having survived 50 days under Russian attack when the Russians "gave us a maximum of five." In his late-night video address, Zelensky called it "an achievement of millions of Ukrainians, of everyone who on Feb....

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