Everything about Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fully dismissed all of Russia's claims against Ukraine in a complaint filed in 2021.

Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Minister of Ukraine, has called on all 123 member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to fulfil the requirement to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova.

Traffic heading towards the bridge was stopped early on Monday while a ferry service linking Crimea with Russia has been paused

While systems like tanks, jets and cruise missiles tend to capture the public imagination, the war in Ukraine in 2023 is largely being fought with much the same tools as it was in 2022 - artillery.

The constant exchange of fire has been critical to the battle, enabling attrition, blunting attacks and enabling advances. Both sides have continued to adapt, trying to refine their tactics and capabilities while wearing down their opponent.

But in this attritional struggle, losses and resupply of systems, barrels and ammunition matter, not just tactics. Ukraine now finds itself in an ammunition deficit - trying to attack at a time where its allies have not yet ramped up production enough to readily meet its needs.

It's in that context that the US recently announced the supply of cluster munitions to refill Ukraine's ammunition bunkers. Today we look at those munitions, their likely impact, as well as the broader course of the artillery war in Ukraine one year on from my original video on the topic "outgunned"

Moscow believes that Western scholars are easily influenced and manipulated through “soft power” (including access to people, documents, and lavish treatment).

Destroyed apartments, burnt-out cars, lives upturned or extinguished altogether: Russia’s June 13 missile attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih was, in many ways, nothing out of the ordinary for wartime Ukraine. The evening after the attack, which killed 13 civilians, President Volodymyr Zelensky came out in his daily

Editor’s note: For this story, the Kyiv Independent talked to residents who live in Russian-occupied settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. For their safety, we have changed their names.