Sources: AP via Netscape
Ukrainian forces say that they have shot down a Russian aircraft near Kostiantynivka. The aircraft crashed into a house, causing it to catch fire. No casualties are reported. The aircraft is later reported to be a S-70 Okhotnik-B and was reportedly shot down by a Russian Su-57 jet to prevent its capture by Ukraine. 2024-10-5
Russia declares a "federal-level" emergency in Kursk Oblast as Ukrainian forces continue to advance. 2024-08-9
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov says that Ukrainian forces have shelled Shebekino with BM-21 Grad rockets, damaging a dormitory and an administrative building in the town. Hundreds of people are evacuated. 2023-06-1
Japan announces that it will donate 100 military vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 2023-05-24
At least three people die in a new round of fighting between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists. 2014-11-26
The bodies of crash victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are returned from Eastern Ukraine to the Netherlands together with flight recorders from the flight. 2014-07-23
A Ukrainian Antonov An-26 military transport plane was shot down near Luhansk where there is currently heavy fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels. Ukraine claims that it was shot down by a rocket fired from Russia. 2014-07-14
A Ukrainian military helicopter is shot down over Sloviansk, with 12 casualties reported, including major-general Serhij Kultschyzkyj. 2014-05-29
The newly elected President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko vows to continue Kyiv's anti-terrorist operation against pro-Russian militants in the east. 2014-05-27
Five pro-Russian militants are killed and fifteen more are captured during clashes with the Ukrainian military in the outskirts of the southern city of Mariupol. 2014-05-7