The Kyiv Independent's investigative documentary, "He Came Back," which exposes sexual violence committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, has won the 2025 Ukrainian journalism award, "Honor of the Profession." The winners were announced during an award ceremony in Kyiv on May 29. The documentary, which identifies perpetrators of sexual violence in occupied Ukrainian territories, was […]

Russia’s missile and drone barrage against Kyiv on Friday killed at least seven people , Ukrainian officials said. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said three emergency workers who went to a bomb site were “killed in a repeat Russian strike”. Two died in an attack on the northern city of Chernihiv and at two more […]

Ukraine’s president on Wednesday urged Western backers to speed up deliveries of air defence systems to counter Russian strikes. Advertisement The emphasis should be on US-made Patriot systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskky told a Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “These are the most effective way to force Russia to stop its […]

Billionaire Elon Musk has countered president Donald Trump's threat to "terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," in spectacular fashion: by threatening to cut off the United States' access to outer space. "In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately," Musk tweeted. But it […]

Russia mounted an intense and sustained barrage of Kyiv overnight, with missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital where there was a succession of large explosions, Reuters reporters in the city said. By daybreak on Friday, authorities in Kyiv reported that four people were killed and 20 people had been wounded, of whom 16 had […]

3h ago 22.32 EDT Closing summary We’re about to wrap up this live coverage for now – thanks for reading. Here’s a recap of what happened this morning. Russia attacked Ukraine with Russian ballistic missiles and drones during a nighttime attack early on Friday, wounding at least three people, officials said. Multiple explosions were heard […]