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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 drafting civilians into the army late last year as the fighting in the war showed no sign of letting up ...

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's favour as Kyi

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...