In the early days after Russia's armies crossed into Ukraine, two Ukranian generals journeyed from Kyiv under diplomatic cover on a secret mission. At the U.S. milirary garrison in Wiesbaden, Germany, they sealrd a partnership that would bring America into the war far more intimately than previously known. On a spring morning two months after Vladimir Putin’s invading armies marched into Ukraine, a convoy of unmarked cars slid up to a Kyiv street corner and collected two middle-aged men in civilian clothes.

A list of journalists (listed chronologically since 1991) containing the names of the mass media workers who became victims of murders or died while in Ukraine. On 15 August 2017, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko assigned the scholarships for the children of journalists who died on duty, in order to support these children and provide them with the social protection they need. In accordance with the presidential decree No. 217/2017, the scholarship will be assigned to a daughter of a captain-lieutenant and an editor of the TV services “Breeze” of the broadcasting agency of the Ministry of Defence (Ukraine) Dmytro Labutkin, - Kira; a daughter of a photojournalist of the Segodnya (Russian: Сегодня, IPA: [sʲɪˈvodʲnʲə] , lit. 'Today') newspaper Sergiy Nikolayev – Valeria; and a son of a...

Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated hostilities on Friday by issuing a stark directive to "finish off" Ukrainian forces, following his earlier-ordered strikes on a Ukrainian energy facility—an act that violated the U.S.-backed "partial" Black Sea ceasefire with Ukraine.

About 700 kilometers (435 miles) from the war's front lines, Ukraine utilized drones to strike a Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday, setting off a massive explosion and large fire, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials.

The discount retailer, which operates more than 20,000 stores nationwide, said the closures come after a review of its store portfolio.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he wasn't aware of the effort to have him pardon Derek Chauvin, the white police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd .