Kyiv

As the world shifts around us, Ukraine fights on

Thawing relations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have allowed Russia to globalise its war

An English life in Vladimir Putin’s twilight zone

Foreign correspondent Marc Bennetts spent 25 years living in Russia. What did he witness during its descent into authoritarianism?

Defrosting among the terminators of Kyiv

Ukraine may be cold but the mob hotel I’m staying in is not

I am once again woken up by the unpleasant buzzing of Russian drones

Also this week: Volodymyr Zelensky’s purchasing power and cross-pollination warfare.

Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq

The US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not…

Dmytro Kuleba: “Russian victory will ruin everything the West stands for”

The Ukrainian foreign minister on China, Donald Trump and how the war ends.

There are cracks between how Ukraine and the West see the war ending

Kyiv wants to fight until Crimea is returned, but the US has doubts.

Terror and tragedy in Ukraine

A helicopter crash kills three Ukrainian officials, while China tries a new approach to diplomacy

What we know about the helicopter crash that killed three Ukrainian officials

They are the first senior government figures to be killed or injured since Russia’s brutal invasion began.

Ukraine’s energy grid is teetering on the brink of collapse

As temperatures plunge and Russia attacks, Kyiv is fighting to keep the lights on.

Reviewed in short: From Derek Owusu to Luke Harding

Also featuring The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski and Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.

18 May 1929: What could be more appropriate than to make the station a living monument of the city’s intellectual…

A night in a Kyiv bunker, palliative care in a war zone, and another chance for Jeremy Hunt

I recently visited Ukraine to help train doctors, and witnessed first-hand Putin’s brazen desire to rain terror on civilians.

When Russian missiles rained on Kyiv

The strikes on the Ukrainian capital have sent its people underground again – but their stoicism persists.

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s cities are an implicit nuclear threat 

After a bomb partially destroyed the Crimean Kerch Bridge, Vladimir Putin has retaliated by targeting parks and universities in Kyiv…

Nato unity faces scrutiny as defences to protect the Baltic states ramp up

The war in Ukraine will dominate this week’s summit in Madrid, including the admission of Finland and Sweden as members.

First revolution, then war: Ukraine’s long fight for a European future

As Ukraine seeks to join the EU, an activist’s death symbolises his country’s struggle to leave Russia’s orbit.

In Ukraine, Russian is now “the language of the enemy”

The linguistic migration away from Russian that has been happening for decades has a new urgency in the wake of…

“We want to be free”: video diary of a Ukrainian refugee

A young Ukrainian documents her journey to safety.

Ukraine is haunted by the ghosts of wars past

Veterans still proudly wear their old Soviet uniforms, yet they have nothing but contempt for the Russians and Vladimir Putin.