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President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrives in Mongolia to discuss a China–Russia gas pipeline meant to recoup Russian losses from Western sanctions, despite Ukraine and the European Union urging Mongolia to arrest Putin under his International Criminal Court warrant.
2024-09-2

Ukraine says that Russia has begun an assault on the city of Avdiivka, in Donetsk Oblast, supported by tanks and armored vehicles.
2023-10-12

Russia accuses Ukraine of attempting to assassinate President Vladimir Putin after two drones were shot down near the Kremlin. A spokesman claimed that Putin was not inside the Kremlin at the time of the attack. A video shows at least one drone hitting the compound. Ukraine denies any involvement in the attack.
2023-05-3

Russia carries out another wave of cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with strikes reported in Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, where two people were confirmed to have been killed overnight by a missile. In Dnipro and Odesa, critical infrastructure is also targeted.
2022-11-17

The Voice of America reports that the Republic of Georgia is receiving an economic boost from the war in Ukraine. It is "expected to record a vigorous 10% growth in economic output for 2022 amid a consumption-led boom," due largely to the arrival of refugees from Russia, seeking to avoid conscription or Putin's crackdown on dissent.
2022-11-5

Russia says that it has arrested eight people, five Russians and three people from Ukraine and Armenia, over the Crimea Bridge explosion.
2022-10-12

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

Ukraine reports its first two cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a woman and a teenager who travelled from Russia.
2021-06-23

Russia's Gazprom halts gas supplies to Ukraine until the Ukrainian government pays in advance for future supplies to replenish the current supplies of gas that it has used up; Ukraine says it has stopped buying from Gazprom because it can get cheaper gas from Europe. Roughly 15% of the gas used in Europe travels through Ukraine, and a previous cut-off of gas supplies in 2009 caused serious disruptions in shipments to EU countries at the height of winter.
2015-11-25

The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, criticises Russia for failing to meet commitments to end the violence in Ukraine, and said Russia might face further EU sanctions.
2014-07-16