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As arms imports spike, Ukraine boosts domestic weapon production

Ukraine became the world’s largest importer of major arms from 2020 to 2024, with its imports increasing nearly a hundredfold compared to the prior five years. The country has also reformed its own arms industry, ramping up production since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Ukraine

View from Bucha: 'Peace' for Russia means no Ukrainians left

Exactly three years ago, in early March 2022, satellite images showed the first mass grave of civilians in Bucha, a town in the Kyiv region. It was on the grounds of the Church of St Andrew, where now there is the Wall of Remembrance for the civilians killed by Russian troops during the occupation.

Ukraine

Intense training draws hundreds to Ukraine's Third Assault Brigade

Euronews got rare access to one of Ukraine’s most elite units, the Third Separate Assault Brigade. At an undisclosed location in the Kyiv region, the trainees are being put into the realistic conditions of raging Russia’s invasion and tasked with planning and executing an assault.

Europe

A truce at any price is impossible, Ukrainian widows say

“Just say thank you” is what many Ukrainians have already heard from occupying Russian soldiers. Svitlana Poltavska says this is what Russian soldiers told her as they came to her house amid beatings and searches: “Say thank you we are not touching your children. Yet.”

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Europe

Concerns regarding US aid to Ukraine, Euronews' Sasha Vakulina says

'People are feeling that it is the Ukrainians who have been disrespected,' Vakulina said reporting from Kyiv.

USA

Ukraine deal off, Trump says after public spat with Zelenskyy

In an unprecedented argument live on TV, US President Donald Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart on Friday he should "be thankful," accusing Volodymyr Zelenskyy of being "disrespectful" and "gambling with World War III".

Europe

Ukraine-US minerals deal the first diplomatic balancing act for Kyiv

After weeks of intense negotiations, Kyiv and Washington have agreed on a deal to jointly develop Ukraine’s natural resources. While a final agreement still has a long way to go, the diplomacy around it matters as much as the agreement itself.

Ukraine

Zelenskyy's rating grows to 57%, debunking Trump's 4% support claim

Despite the US president's claims of low support, Zelenskyy's approval rating reached 57% in February — higher than Trump's own.

Ukraine

Ukrainian POW: Ceding land means giving up on millions of people there

“Everyone who is in the occupied territories is a hostage of the Russian regime,” Ukrainian journalist and human rights activist Maksym Butkevych, who spent over two years in Russian captivity, told Euronews.

Europe

Europe mulls plan to send troops to Ukraine for post-war security

A group of European countries has been quietly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to help enforce any future peace settlement with Russia, with the UK and France at the forefront of the effort.

Ukraine

Zelenskyy calls for 'armed forces of Europe' at Munich conference

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will not take NATO membership for Ukraine off the table. However, “right now the most influential member of NATO seems to be Putin because he seems able to block NATO decisions,” he said.

Ukraine

Putin may attack a NATO country from Belarus next year, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine’s president issued a stark warning, saying that Russia may be preparing an act of aggression against NATO members as early as next year. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack might come from Belarus.

Ukraine

Russian drone damages Chernobyl nuclear plant's protective shield

A protective shield over the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear plant has been struck overnight by a Russian attack drone carrying a high-explosive warhead, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Russia

Putin vision of peace is an enslaved Ukraine, expert says

Since Donald Trump announced the beginning of the peace negotiations over Russia's war against Ukraine, the US authorities have made several statements on what Ukraine should and should not expect. Yet, there are no indications of any conditions or concessions Moscow will have to settle for.

Ukraine

US army general or NY tycoon: Who will lead Ukraine-Russia talks?

In November, Donald Trump nominated retired General Keith Kellogg as a special Ukrainian peace envoy to lead negotiations on Russia's full-scale war. But after the first phone calls with Kyiv and Moscow, he said the talks would be led by a different person — his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Ukraine

Ukraine’s negotiating conundrum: Ceasefire and more sacrifice

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears a three-year mark, there is a sign of a possible end to the war. The new US administration is pushing forward with its peace plan, but Washington, Kyiv and Moscow have different interpretations of what this "peace" might represent.

Ukraine

Ukraine launches fresh assault in Russia's Kursk region

Moscow says the attack has been repelled, Kyiv doesn't comment on the developments, while Russian military bloggers say another surprise attack is on its way.

Ukraine

Kyiv and Moscow already tried negotiating, but that didn't go well

When Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready to negotiate with Vladimir Putin to end the war, it wasn't the first time Ukraine's leader had announced his readiness to talk to Moscow. In fact, the two sides already tried to negotiate in the early days of the war.

Ukraine

'Alarming rise' in Russian killings of Ukrainian POWs — UN watchdog

Since the end of August, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine recorded 79 executions of Ukrainian POWs by Russian troops in 24 separate incidents, according to its recent report.

Russia

Kremlin's Donetsk paramilitary leader killed in Moscow bomb explosion

Armen Sarkisyan, the Moscow-backed collaborator from Ukraine's Donetsk region, died in hospital after being injured in an explosion in an elite residential complex in Moscow on Monday, according to Russian state-run outlets.

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