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Takeaways into AP investigation into Russian system to force its passports on occupied Ukraine

Mar. 15, 2024 01:16 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship ahead of elections Vladimir Putin has made certain he will win, an...

2 killed including a 16-year-old in Russian artillery strikes in Ukraine

Mar. 09, 2024 08:33 AM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities said two people including a teenage boy were killed Saturday in Russian artillery attacks and Russia reported it had shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet and destroyed a wave of drones over several regions. The attacks came as Russia is...

Ukrainian troops pull back again as Russia's onslaught pushes ahead in eastern Ukraine

Feb. 26, 2024 14:54 PM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops have pulled out of a village in the east of the country, an army spokesman said Monday, as Russian forces display advantages in manpower and ammunition on the battlefield at the start of the war ’s third year. The latest setback for Kyiv’s...

Russia takes control of a city in eastern Ukraine after Ukrainian troops withdraw

Feb. 17, 2024 18:07 PM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said its forces took complete control Saturday of a city in eastern Ukraine that was the focus of intense combat for months, a development that Moscow could use to boost morale as the second anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches with the war...

Under bombing in eastern Ukraine and disabled by illness, an unknown painter awaits his fate

Jan. 29, 2024 20:17 PM EST

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. His landscapes of eastern Ukraine, records of a lost time, lie tucked away in a modest home under threat of Russian attack. Soloviov can’t hear or walk and barely speaks. Disabled since a 2017...

At least 27 people are reported killed in an attack on Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Jan. 21, 2024 14:51 PM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow-installed officials said Ukrainian shelling killed at least 27 people and wounded 25 on Sunday at a market on the outskirts of Donetsk, a Russian-occupied city in the eastern part of the country. Among the injured in the suburb of Tekstilshchik were two...

Russian shelling kills 11 in Donetsk region while Ukraine claims it hit a Crimean air base

Jan. 06, 2024 11:39 AM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Eleven people were killed Saturday in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk province, according to regional Gov. Vadym Filashkin. Five children were among the dead and eight further people were wounded in the attack on the Pokrovsk district, he said. ...