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Why did Russia decide to ratchet up tensions with Ukraine and seize three ships Sunday? Do Ukranians fear their long war with Russia is about… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—On Sunday, Europe’s two largest standing armies went to the precipice of a major war. That day, Russian military forces attacked and captured three… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—At the end of August 2014, the battle for the city of Mariupol loomed as a climactic showdown in Ukraine’s defensive war to repel… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—The death of an American fighter pilot during an air combat exercise Oct. 16 in Ukraine was a tragic stumble as the U.S. ramps… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—The trench lines of Europe’s only ongoing land war are six hours away by train from Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv. But you can… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—A statue of Vladimir Lenin stood over Kyiv’s Bessarabska Square from 1946 until pro-democracy protesters tore it down on Dec. 8, 2013—more than 22… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—The U.S. Coast Guard was set to hand over two of its decommissioned 110-foot armed cutters to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at a ceremony… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—For the past four and a half years, Ukraine’s military has prioritized rebuilding land warfare units to meet the immediate needs of the ongoing… Read More
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After more than four years of constant combat, the artillery still thunders daily in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region along the 250-mile-long, entrenched front lines of… Read More
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Tuesday marked 50 years since the Soviet Union—along with troops from the Warsaw Pact nations—on Aug. 21, 1968, invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the period of… Read More
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DNIPRO, Ukraine—From a 15th-floor balcony overlooking this city’s Yuri Gagarin Park, American John Isella looks east beyond the skyline toward the Dnieper River. A forested… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—In 2014, the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk was at the epicenter of the separatist insurgency, which, with financial and military backing from Moscow,… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—On Thursday, four Ukrainian soldiers died in combat in eastern Ukraine. In that day’s fighting, the Ukrainian military said it had killed nine soldiers… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—The staged assassination of a Russian journalist here hit the newsworthiness sweet spot for Western news editors, generating a tsunami of headlines that dwarfed… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—The war in Ukraine escalated this week to its most violent levels of the year with Russian artillery and rocket attacks targeting both Ukrainian… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—Russia’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine has flared up once again. This time, however, it wasn’t another Russian artillery or rocket barrage in eastern Ukraine’s… Read More
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HORISHNI PLAVNI, Ukraine—The trenches, tanks, artillery, and snipers are only six hours to the east of here by car. The war is always there, as… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine has gone to war against Russian propaganda. Last week, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced the deployment of Ukrainian electronic warfare units to jam… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—After four years of constant combat against Russia and its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian troops have learned the value of creativity in… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—Since 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military aggression in Ukraine has rearranged the national defense chessboards of countries across Eastern Europe. In turn, the… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—After more than a week of snowstorms and gray skies, Monday morning dawned sunny and clear in Ukraine’s capital city. Similarly, on that day,… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—The hands of the 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier seemed too old for the rest of him. They were tanned and dirty, calloused in places, scarred… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—Four years ago this week, central Kyiv resembled a quieted urban battlefield. Ukraine’s capital city was, at that time, reeling from months of street… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine— When the Russian soldiers first showed up in Crimea in February 2014, the young man felt like he was living a nightmare. “The… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—On Tuesday, the guns fell silent along the front lines in eastern Ukraine. In a rare respite from violence for the nearly 4-year-old conflict,… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—On Wednesday, Russian weapons killed three Ukrainian troops and wounded five more in eastern Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donbas region, where Moscow continues to wage… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—In the days and weeks after Kyiv celebrated achieving its foreign policy holy grail—the promise of lethal U.S. anti-tank weaponry—China announced a laundry list… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the sale of commercial lethal weapons to Ukraine, a pivotal decision that comes amid an escalation of Russia’s… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—And it goes on and on in eastern Ukraine. Every day and every night. There’s never any end to the artillery, the rockets, the… Read More
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KYIV, Ukraine—A top Chinese official visited Kyiv this week to announce a host of new infrastructure projects and investments in Ukraine, underscoring a burgeoning economic… Read More
