Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on Wednesday that 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers are officially considered as absent without official leave (AWOL), meaning they have left their positions without permission to do so.

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi Germany during the "Great Patriotic War"

Ukraine's energy system, damaged by Russian drone and missile attacks, is meeting only 60% of the country's electricity needs, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday, as the country copes with its coldest and darkest winter of war yet.

Ukrainian E.U. membership in 2027 was pencilled into a 20-point peace plan, diplomats said, as a measure to ensure Ukraine's economic prosperity after the war ends.

Russia's "massive" military losses in Ukraine are unsustainable, NATO's secretary general warned with the conflict about to enter its fourth year with no clear end in sight.

President Zelensky has called Ukraine's air defence supplies "insufficient", having revealed several systems were "without missiles" until Friday morning. "I can say this openly because today I have those missiles," the president said, adding that Ukraine had received a "substantial package" earlier in the day.

Fire Point’s technical director Iryna Terekh, a former architect who shifted gears at the start Russia’s full-scale invasion, is laser-focused on effectiveness: “I’d love to make something that looks beautiful and leaves you short of breath,

Germany has announced the allocation of €60 million for winter and energy support for Ukraine. Source: Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

For 45 days straight, Russian troops on the front line in eastern Ukraine were pinned back by machine gun fire.