• News Wrap: Ukraine and European countries push U.S. to take tougher stance on Russia

    News Wrap: Ukraine and European countries push U.S. to take tougher stance on Russia

    Apr 17, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    In our news wrap Thursday, delegations from Ukraine and other European countries are trying to push the U.S. to take a tougher stance with Russia, Chinese President Xi said Cambodia should "resist protectionism" in an apparent slight against U.S. tariffs and a federal judge ruled Google held an ...

  • Future of Ukraine subject of Paris talks with Rubio, Witkoff and top European officials

    Future of Ukraine subject of Paris talks with Rubio, Witkoff and top European officials

    Apr 17, 2025 04:22 PM EST

    ... has effectively refused to accept a comprehensive ceasefire that Trump has pushed and Ukraine has endorsed. Russia has made it conditional on a halt in Ukraine's mobilization efforts and Western arms supplies, which are demands rejected by Ukraine. Moscow and Kyiv agreed last month to implement a 30-day ...

  • 1 killed, 9 wounded in Russian strikes on southern Ukraine

    1 killed, 9 wounded in Russian strikes on southern Ukraine

    Apr 16, 2025 06:10 PM EST

    Moscow has effectively refused to accept a comprehensive ceasefire that President Donald Trump has sought and Ukraine has endorsed. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it conditional on a halt in Ukraine’s mobilization efforts and Western arms supplies, the demands rejected by Ukraine. Kyiv believes Moscow’s forces are ...

  • Russian cluster bomb attack on Ukraine kills dozens, including children

    Russian cluster bomb attack on Ukraine kills dozens, including children

    Apr 14, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... their Western colleagues.Nick Schifrin: But, in Sumy today, there is no evidence of that. And as the U.S. pushes peace, Russia continues its attacks. Ukraine has no choice but to suffer, no choice but to clean up the pieces. For the "PBS News Hour," I'm Nick Schifrin.

  • Condemnation grows as Russia claims its deadly attack on Ukraine's Sumy targeted military forces

    Condemnation grows as Russia claims its deadly attack on Ukraine's Sumy targeted military forces

    Apr 14, 2025 04:09 PM EST

    ... Shahed drones over Ukraine late Sunday and early Monday, Ukraine's air force said, adding that 40 were destroyed and 11 others jammed. Associated Press writers Geir Moulson in Berlin, Sam McNeil in Barcelona, Spain, Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.

  • Europe vows billions in military support for Ukraine as U.S. meets Putin

    Europe vows billions in military support for Ukraine as U.S. meets Putin

    Apr 11, 2025 04:16 PM EST

    ... system, an airborne early warning aircraft. Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said that his country is monitoring the world armaments market and sees opportunities for Ukraine's backers to buy more weapons and ammunition. Pevkur said he believes Putin might try to reach some kind of settlement with Ukraine by ...

  • Taiwan closely watches Ukraine war, fearing China could attempt a similar takeover

    Taiwan closely watches Ukraine war, fearing China could attempt a similar takeover

    Apr 08, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... husband, Lin Yua (ph), their children fluent in Mandarin and Ukrainian, and their restaurant resistance to Russia in mouth and mind, sunflowers, the symbol of Ukraine's resilience, snapshots of solidarity, including aid sent from Taiwan to Ukraine, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's words of defiance in Mandarin. Olga ...

  • Russian strike in central Ukraine kills 14 people and injures 50, officials say

    Russian strike in central Ukraine kills 14 people and injures 50, officials say

    Apr 04, 2025 07:02 PM EST

    ... to draft 160,000 conscripts for a one-year tour of compulsory military service. The two foreign ministers pledged to continue helping to build up Ukraine’s armed forces — the country’s best security guarantee since the U.S. took any prospect of NATO membership off the table. Moscow’s ...

  • Britain and France accuse Russia of slow-walking Ukraine ceasefire efforts

    Britain and France accuse Russia of slow-walking Ukraine ceasefire efforts

    Apr 04, 2025 02:32 PM EST

    Britain and France are helping to lead a multinational effort known as the "coalition of the willing" to set up a force that might police any future peace agreement in Ukraine. A senior Ukrainian official said earlier this week that between 10 and 12 countries have said they are ready ...

  • Germany describes Russia-Ukraine peace talks as deadlocked, but China says negotiations are encouraging

    Germany describes Russia-Ukraine peace talks as deadlocked, but China says negotiations are encouraging

    Apr 01, 2025 05:31 PM EST

    ... at Ukraine for the first time in more than five months, according to authorities. But Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the counter-disinformation branch of Ukraine’s Security Council, detected no change in Russian strategy.“For now, this means nothing,” he said on Telegram. Russia’s Defense Ministry accused Ukraine ...