Sources: BBC
A war correspondent for the Russian newspaper "Izvestia" is killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 2025-01-4
Russia launches missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, injuring at least four people and damaging critical infrastructure, including energy facilities. Ukraine says that it shot down 35 of 53 missiles and 46 of 47 drones. 2024-06-1
A Russian missile strike kills at least five people and injures eight others in an industrial area of Kharkiv, Ukraine. 2024-03-20
Russia's defense ministry says it destroyed four Ukrainian military boats carrying troops in the Black Sea travelling in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut on the Crimean coast. 2023-09-5
Russia launches cruise missiles at Kyiv Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, and Kirovohrad Oblast in Ukraine. Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk says that 36 targets, including three Kalibr and 33 Kh-101-Kh-55 cruise missiles were shot down. 2023-07-26
Russia launches missile strikes from the Black Sea on "military infrastructure" in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, located near Ukraine's western border with Poland. The target was "completely destroyed", according to the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyy. 2022-05-15
Eastern Europe surpasses 20 million cases of COVID-19, with Russia, Ukraine and Romania reporting the most deaths. 2021-10-24
The body of Ukrainian lawyer Yurij Grabovsky, who defended two ex-Russian soldiers charged in Eastern Ukraine with terrorism and waging an aggressive war against the country, is found on the grounds of a former farming collective in Zhashkiv, Ukraine. Grabovsky went missing from Kiev on March 9. Information from one of two men being held in this case led police to the remains. 2016-03-25
The European Union extends Russian sanctions for interference in Ukraine another six months, until 31 July 2016. The EU says it's extending the sanctions because the Minsk peace accords would not be fully implemented by the end of this year. 2015-12-21
A severe cold spell kills at least 83 people in Ukraine. Across Russia, the deep freeze killed at least 45 people over the last week. 2012-12-21