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Reuters writer Pavel Polityuk reported on today that, "Ukraine’s grain exports could reach 1.5 million tonnes in May compared with around 1 million tonnes in April, Roman Slaston, Director General of the Ukrainian Agrarian Business Club Association, said on Monday."

After months of a devastating siege, the city of Mariupol is now in Russian hands as Moscow's forces concentrate their attacks elsewhere.

As fighting continued to rage in Ukraine, senior Ukrainian officials predicted a "new, long-term phase" of fighting to last through much of the summer.

DNIPRO, Ukraine — President Joe Biden and other Western leaders pledged additional military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, while Russia sharply rejected the president’s description of its wartime acts as

Bucha and other suburbs are evidence of how the world appears powerless to stop atrocity.

Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early today, more than a month after taking it over, Ukrainian authorities said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.

The Los Angeles mayor's ambassador nomination has moved particularly slowly as senators examine sexually harassment allegations against his former aide.

Removing Russian President Vladimir Putin from power is not on Washington’s agenda, the top U.S diplomat said Sunday.

KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an impassioned appeal to President Joe Biden and other NATO leaders for more aid Thursday as the war ravaging his country entered its second month with more bombing by Russian forces and civilian suffering in besieged cities. In a video

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Jaweed Kaleem and Laura King, Los Angeles Times, (TNS) LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces defending the capital, Kyiv, managed to wrest back control of a strategic outlying town that Russian troops had earlier captured, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, but invading troops we