War in Ukraine

As the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve 2025, millions of Ukrainians tuned in to hear their president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, deliver a message they’d been waiting years for. In a heartfelt 20-minute address from Kyiv, Zelenskyy revealed that a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war with Russia is “90% ready.” It was … Read more

On January 2, 2026, the people of Kharkiv woke to what should have been an ordinary Friday afternoon. Instead, two ballistic missiles slammed into a residential neighborhood in the city’s central Kyivskyi district, reducing a multi-storey apartment building to rubble and claiming innocent lives in an instant. Ukrainian authorities confirmed that the attack killed a … Read more

It’s hard to keep up with the twists in the Russia-Ukraine conflict these days. Just when peace talks seem to be gaining a bit of traction, something explosive comes along—literally, in this case. Late last year, as 2025 drew to a close, Russia accused Ukraine of launching a massive drone assault on one of President … Read more

In a move that has sent ripples through Ukrainian politics, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on January 2, 2026, the appointment of Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), as the new chief of his presidential office. This decision comes just over a month after the dramatic resignation of Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s … Read more