A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It) In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story of Ukraine's turbulent and often surprising history. Beginning over a thousand years ago with the formation of the Kyivan Rus state ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Here is a timeline of Ukraine's fraught relationship with Moscow since it won independence in 1991 and the events that led to the current conflict. 1991: Shortly after the ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country taking over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in "the world order.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have more than a little history. "I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia," Trump said. "I will say this, I don’t see any reason why it would be." In 2022, days before ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv that began at midnight. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Ukraine hadn ...

Russia fired more than 100 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian air force said Tuesday, as the country’s foreign ministry noted that Moscow’s recent threat to hit Kyiv especially hard from the air brought nothing new.

Kyiv faced one of the heaviest bombardments since the start of the war, including an Oreshnik hypersonic missile near the capital. At least six people have been reported killed and dozens injured - while almost half of the items in the Chernobyl museum have been "lost".

Russia on Thursday unleashed a third straight day of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, demolishing an apartment building in Kyiv where nine people were killed and dozens injured, authorities said.