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Russia launches attacks in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, against energy infrastructure, causing smoke contamination.
2026-03-21

Ukraine announces it will train Polish troops and engineers in counter-drone operations following recent Russian drone incursions into Polish airspace.
2025-09-18

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz declares the rapid re-militarization of Germany and Europe as a whole to be an immediate priority, in order to provide military support for Ukraine against Russia, as well as to pursue European military independence from the United States and possibly NATO.
2025-02-24

Ukraine launches ATACMS ballistic missiles at targets in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, according to the Russian Defence Ministry. It is the first time that Ukraine has used the American-supplied missiles to strike targets inside Russia.
2024-11-19

Ukraine denies its involvement in explosions that damaged the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in 2022 and accuses Russia of causing the explosions, following Germany issuing its first arrest warrant on the case towards a Ukrainian man.
2024-08-15

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 Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a resolution recognising Chechnya as "temporarily occupied" by Russia, as well as condemning war crimes committed by Russia during the First and Second Chechen Wars.
2022-10-18

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris warns that the United States will impose sanctions on Russia if it invades Ukraine.
2022-02-19

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

A column of at least 23 Russian armoured vehicles and military trucks crosses the border from Russia into Ukraine, in the first confirmed sighting of such an incident by Western journalists.
2014-08-15