Russian forces staged mass strikes late on Thursday on energy targets in Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, the regional governor said.

Days after an explosive meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump ordered the assistance halted in a bid to pressure Kyiv to engage in peace talks with Russia.

A man walks inside a hospital damaged by a Russian strike, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/)

Residents of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine gathered in a subway station for a ceremony honoring soldiers who have died in the three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Relatives told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service about their lost loved ones as an orchestra accompanied the memorial.

A candlelight vigil will be held Friday to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The event, organized by the sister city partnership between Cincinnati and Kharkiv, will take place at the Presbyterian Church of Wyoming,

Russian forces launched a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih on the evening of Wednesday, March 5. The attack damaged civilian infrastructure, and people may be trapped under the rubble, according to the Telegram of the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council,

The DeepState analytical project reported on the night of 2-3 March that the Russians had advanced in Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts as well as Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Source: DeepState Details: DeepState wrote that the Russians had advanced in the village of Pishchane in Donetsk Oblast,

Oleksandr, a Ukrainian soldier, dreams of being a father to a girl and a boy. But, as fighting against Russian invaders rages on, he is putting off having children.

Moscow on Saturday said it seized two more villages in eastern Ukraine as Kyiv officials said Russian strikes killed one person and wounded 19. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces captured Sudne and Burlatske in the south of the eastern Donetsk region.

President Donald Trump has sharply reversed the three-year U.S. policy of isolating Russia when he called Putin and said afterward they agreed “to work together very closely” to end the