Christopher Stewart

Feb 19, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Christopher Stewart |Kateryna Zakharchenko |Alisa Orlova

Olena Obodets rushed to the hospital in east Ukraine moments after a Russian missile tore into its maternity ward last week, sparking a frantic evacuation of dozens of patients in the dead of night. Days after the strike in the town of Selydove that killed a 36-year-old pregnant woman, a mother and her nine-year-old son, she dabbed her eyes with tissue as she recounted seeing the hospital's caved-in roof and building on fire. "Tears. Nightmare. Fear," she said.

Jan 15, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Christopher Stewart |Leo Chiu |Stefan Korshak |Chris York

Britain will send 20,000 armed forces personnel to one of NATO's largest exercises since the Cold War, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Monday, warning of increasing threats to the Western-led alliance. The deployment, which Shapps characterised as the UK's biggest to NATO in four decades, is aimed at "providing vital reassurance" over the "menace" posed by Russian President Vladimir Putin following his invasion of Ukraine, Shapps said.

Jan 15, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Christopher Stewart |Leo Chiu |Chris York |Stefan Korshak

Russia said Monday it has sentenced more than 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war to lengthy sentences, with some getting life in prison, almost two years into the Kremlin’s offensive. Russia holds an unknown number -- believed to be in the thousands -- of Ukrainian captive soldiers, many of whom were taken during the siege of the port city of Mariupol in 2022. Kyiv and international rights groups have denounced Moscow’s trials of the POWs as illegal.

Jan 5, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Christopher Stewart |Leo Chiu |Jason Smart

Ukraine said Friday it was so far unable to confirm that Russia had used North Korean missiles to attack it after Washington accused Moscow of using weapons provided by Pyongyang. The White House laid out the claims late Thursday and also said Moscow was seeking missiles from its ally Iran, as it burns through stockpiles of key munitions nearly two years into its invasion of Ukraine.

Jan 3, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Christopher Stewart

The UN nuclear watchdog said Wednesday that the Russians holding Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant blocked them from inspecting the reactor halls of three units for the first time, further limiting their access to the site. The nuclear plant has been at the center of fighting since it was seized by Russian forces at the beginning of their 2022 invasion of Ukraine and who have been using it as a base for military operations.