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2 weeks ago | 
krdo.com | Svitlana Vlasova |Victoria Butenko |Kosta Gak |Kathleen Magramo
By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Kosta Gak and Kathleen Magramo, CNNKyiv (CNN) — Russia launched 315 drones at Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was “one of the largest” attacks on the capital Kyiv, with local officials in the southern port city of Odesa also reporting a maternity ward there had been hit.
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2 weeks ago | 
kxly.com | Kosta Gak |Rob Picheta |Catherine Nicholls
(CNN) — A new prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia has begun, officials in both countries said Monday, with Ukrainian soldiers who have spent nearly the entire duration of the war in captivity among those returning home. The exchange, agreed last week during talks in Turkey, involves detained people under the age of 25, as well as those who are seriously wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Telegram.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnn.com | Kosta Gak |Kathleen Magramo
Ukrainian opera tenor killed on voluntary mission in northeastern Sumy Oblast. Vladyslav Gorai/Facebook CNN — Acclaimed Ukrainian opera singer Vladislav Horay has been killed while on a volunteer mission to the Sumy region, where a frontline battle for territory continues. Horay was a soloist with the Odesa National Opera, which said in a statement that he was a “world-class tenor” and “Honored Artist of Ukraine,” whose voice was known around the globe.
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2 weeks ago | 
sg.yahoo.com | CHRISTIAN EDWARDS |Kosta Gak |Billy Stockwell
Christian Edwards, Kosta Gak and Billy Stockwell, CNN8 June 2025 at 1:59 pm·4-min readRussia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart toward the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap. “I can tell you that in just an hour, repatriation trains carrying the bodies of military personnel will also begin to move,” Russia’s Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin said on Sunday, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnnespanol.cnn.com | Kosta Gak |Catherine Nicholls
Dramático video muestra el impacto de misiles rusos en Ucrania 00:32 - Fuente: CNN Dramático video muestra el impacto de misiles rusos en Ucrania 00:32 CNN — Rusia afirmó este domingo que sus fuerzas están avanzando por primera vez en la región de Dnipropetrovsk, en el centro de Ucrania, una zona a la que ha estado intentando llegar durante meses, en una maniobra que podría crear nuevos problemas para las muy limitadas fuerzas de Kyiv.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnn.com | Kosta Gak |Catherine Nicholls
A Ukrainian tank drives on a road past buildings damaged by shelling in a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region on March 16. Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images/File CNN — Russia claimed Sunday that its forces are for the first time pushing into the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, an area it has been trying to reach for months, in a move that could create new problems for Kyiv’s much-stretched forces.
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2 weeks ago | 
wqow.com | Todd Symons |Kosta Gak |Billy Stockwell
(CNN) — Massive Russian strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city killed at least five people on Saturday, officials said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine. Russia has conducted extensive attacks on Ukraine in recent days, in what is being viewed as retaliation for an audacious drone operation by Kyiv that debilitated more than a third of Moscow’s strategic cruise missile carriers.
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2 weeks ago | 
krdo.com | CHRISTIAN EDWARDS |Kosta Gak |Billy Stockwell
By Christian Edwards, Kosta Gak and Billy Stockwell, CNN(CNN) — Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart towards the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap. “I can tell you that in just an hour, repatriation trains carrying the bodies of military personnel will also begin to move,” Lieutenant General Aleksandr Zorin said on Sunday, according to TASS news agency.
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2 weeks ago | 
channel3000.com | Todd Symons |Kosta Gak |Billy Stockwell
(CNN) — Massive Russian strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city killed at least five people on Saturday, officials said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine. Russia has conducted extensive attacks on Ukraine in recent days, in what is being viewed as retaliation for an audacious drone operation by Kyiv that debilitated more than a third of Moscow’s strategic cruise missile carriers.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Todd Symons |Kosta Gak |Billy Stockwell
2 hours agoFmr. U.S. Amb. to Ukraine who quit over Trump policies ‘Seriously thinking about a run for Congress’Longtime senior diplomat Bridget Brink was the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine until recently when she resigned over this administration’s foreign policy. Putin is “just stringing President Trump and the rest of us along,” says Brink, who is now “seriously thinking about” a run for Congress, continuing a life of public service.
