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5 days ago | 
kyivpost.com |
A massive pile of rubble marks the spot where a 5-story building stood just the night before, after Russia struck Kyiv again on the night of June 22. Hours after sirens sounded the end of the air raid, emergency workers pulled a 7th person’s remains out of the rubble that stands meters high and could still hold more bodies. At least 7 civilians were killed in the early morning barrage on the capital, and dozens more were injured.
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5 days ago | 
kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu
HAGUE – US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said Monday that the alliance’s leaders’ summit in The Hague this week aims to enhance NATO’s credibility and address threats from Russia and emerging cyber and space threats.
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5 days ago | 
kyivpost.com | John Moretti |
UPDATED: June 23, 2025, 5:02 a.m. Kyiv time Social media posts are reporting that part of the Igor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) has been destroyed by fires resulting from this morning’s Russian air strikes. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.
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5 days ago | 
kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu
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5 days ago | 
kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu
WASHINGTON DC – US President Donald Trump plans to travel to the Netherlands on Tuesday, June 24, for the NATO Summit to secure new commitments on increased defense spending and industrial production, a senior US administration official told reporters ahead of the scheduled trip. On military spending, NATO has long been inching toward two percent of each member’s respective GDPs, but that is old news by now, as Trump is eyeing a new target: five percent.
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6 days ago | 
kyivpost.com | Diane Francis
Israel quickly established air superiority over Iran, attacked its nuclear facilities and air defenses, killed its top military leaders, and executed limited attacks on Tehran’s oil production, refining, and exporting infrastructure. Oil prices have risen 10%, but the all-out destruction of Iran’s oil industry would send prices soaring, would bankrupt some oil-importing countries, and would provide billions more income for oil exporters, including Putin, who rely on energy to finance wars.
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1 week ago | 
kyivpost.com | Diane Francis
Most Iranians want and deserve the removal of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his brutal police state, and there’s no time like the present to do so. In 2022, the courageous women of Iran launched mass protests against their misogynistic theocracy after police murdered a 22-year-old woman for the “crime” of wearing her hijab improperly. Shortly afterward, a 14-year-old school girl was beaten to death in front of her classmates for tearing up a photo of Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Khamenei.
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1 week ago | 
kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu
Sweden’s top diplomat Maria Malmer Stenergard is urging the Western allies to ramp up support for Ukraine and to further pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to get him to the negotiating table. “It’s obvious that Russia doesn’t want peace now. Ukraine has been willing to discuss a peace and show that they’re really willing to find a way forward,” Stenergard said on Friday in Washington after meeting with senior US officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department.
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1 week ago | 
kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted his British counterpart David Lammy at the White House on Thursday where they discussed a wide range of topics including the Iran-Israel crisis, Russia’s war in Ukraine, next week’s NATO summit, and bilateral relations, the State Department said. The high-stakes meeting was originally planned for last Friday, June 13, but got pushed back due to scheduling conflicts, Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent reports.
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1 week ago | 
kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he would make a decision on whether his country should get involved in Israel’s conflict with Iran “within the next two weeks.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt read out a message from Trump at a daily briefing, citing “a lot of speculations” about whether the US would be “directly involved.”Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.