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Offensive lands Kremlin biggest battlefield advance since capturing the city of Bakhmut

Ukraine's leading business associations are calling for changes to be made to draft legislation that would overhaul the process for mobilising troops, saying the reforms could deal a blow to the already embattled economy. "Business asks the parliament not to paralyse the country's economy with the new mobilisation legislation," the European Business Association, which unites about 1,000 companies, said in a statement. Ukrainian authorities acted to tighten the rules on draf...

Ukraine's military said on Monday its troops had taken up new defensive positions in the east after retreating from the captured town of Avdiivka and were repelling Russian attempts to develop the offensive thrust. Russia took full control of devastated Avdiivka after Kyiv's troops withdrew over the weekend, handing the Kremlin its biggest battlefield advance since capturing the city of Bakhmut in May. Avdiivka's fall was the clearest sign the tide of the war has turned in Russia&...

A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with his helicopter last year was found dead in an underground garage in Spain last week, his body riddled with bullets, Ukrainian and Spanish media... -February 19, 2024 at 02:23 pm EST - MarketScreener

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday the security deal he signed with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Friday was ambitious and very substantive. The Ukrainian leader made the comments in Paris at a joint...

Ukrainian troops withdrew from the devastated eastern town of Avdiivka, Ukraine's new army chief said in the early hours of Saturday, paving the way for Russia's biggest advance since May 2023 when it captured the city of Bakhmut. The withdrawal, announced as Ukraine faces acute shortages of ammunition with U.S. military aid delayed for months in Congress, aimed to save troops from being fully surrounded by Russian forces after months of fierce fighting, Kyiv said. General Oleksandr ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was expected to visit Germany and France on Friday to try to drum up vital military assistance and sign bilateral security commitments as the war with Russia nears its third year. The trip comes as Kyiv's troops are trying to hold back Russian forces closing in on the eastern town of Avdiivka. Ukraine faces a shortage of manpower and ammunition stockpiles, while U.S. military aid has been delayed for months.

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Russia has fired at least 24 North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine since Dec. 30, in strikes that have largely appeared inaccurate and killed at least 14 civilians, Ukraine said on Friday in... -February 16, 2024 at 09:05 am EST - MarketScreener

By Tom Balmforth and David Gauthier-Villars KYIV (Reuters) -Russia hit only two military targets upon firing 24 North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine in recent weeks, Ukraine’s top prosecutor said on Friday, casting doubt on the reliability of Pyongyang’s much-feared, but little-known weaponry. Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said a preliminary assessment found at least 24…