A Scot has been killed while serving as a medic with the Ukrainian army, his family has said. Jordan Maclachlan, 26, from Ardnamurchan, volunteered to help Ukraine after Russia's invasion in February 2022. His family said he died on Friday while serving on the frontline.
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Russia claims it captured another town in eastern Ukraine but Kyiv's troops say the fight continues
Russia says it captures Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine
Russian forces have seized control of Kurakhove, a town in Ukraine's Donetsk region, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday. Gaining control over Kurakhove "has significantly hampered the logistics and technical support" of Ukrainian troops,
Ukraine renews offensive inside Russia
Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine’s forces are pushing forward in multiple directions in Russia’s southern Kursk region, even as its troops are struggling to hold the line elsewhere along the frontline.
Kiev should be 'realistic' about territorial issues
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Russia had suffered heavy losses in five months of fighting Ukrainian forces in southern Russia's Kursk region, with nearly 15,000 killed.
Ukrainian forces on Sunday launched a new offensive inside Russia's western Kursk border region, going on the attack with substantial forces.
Ukraine has largely been driven out of Kurakhove, a battered but strategic town in the Donbas, Russia said. Kyiv’s forces were pressing a renewed offensive in southern Russia.
Ukraine has launched a counterattack in the southern Russian border region of Kursk, warning that Russia is “getting what it deserves.”
It comes as Ukraine's president says only the US can provide security guarantees leading to an end to the war.
Russian forces continue to make costly but consistent gains in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. They are steadily grinding down a pocket of resistance around the town of Kurakhove and are also fighting to envelop the larger nearby city of Pokrovsk, Ukrainian soldiers and officials said.
French President Emmanuel Macron extended an olive branch to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, declaring that France is “a solid ally” as he outlined his vision for global diplomacy in 2025
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the research organization where we work, has been conducting national public opinion surveys since Ukraine gained independence, in 1991. Before the full-scale war,
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says he will again ask his allies to boost the country's air defenses at this week’s meeting in Germany.
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