# War

Ukraine says Russia is pursuing 'attempts to encircle' heavily contested city of Bakhmut

Bakhmut has been mostly reduced to rubble during the longest and bloodiest battle of the invasion.

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February 2023

# War in Ukraine

'Extremely tense': Ukraine's troops under mounting pressure in battered city of Bakhmat

Moscow has said it shot down Ukrainian drones targeting civilian sites in Russian territory.

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Feb 28th 2023, 9:17 PM

Larry Donnelly: One year on, Biden walks a tightrope on Ukraine

Our columnist looks at Joe Biden’s visit to Kyiv this week and his challenges maintaining support for Ukraine at home.

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Feb 23rd 2023, 11:58 PM

Russia jails journalist for six years over post about Ukraine

Russia introduced legislation last year criminalising ‘false’ or ‘damaging’ information about the Russian army.

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Feb 15th 2023, 12:53 PM

# Shelling

Russia continues to shell Ukraine amid grinding push in east

Ukrainian officials have said Moscow is having trouble launching its much-anticipated large-scale offensive there.

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Feb 12th 2023, 1:35 PM

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2022

Ukrainian missile allegedly lands in Belarus

The missile either deviated from its trajectory or was shot down by Belarusian air defences, authorities said.

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Dec 29th 2022, 12:51 PM

Tom Clonan: Russia cannot ‘win’ this war on Ukraine - so what can we expect in 2023?

Escalation won’t alter the fact that a Russian victory is not possible, security analyst Tom Clonan writes.

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Dec 22nd 2022, 1:41 PM

Zelensky lands in Washington for first trip outside Ukraine since Russian invasion

The secretly arranged trip comes on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet his top military officials.

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Dec 21st 2022, 11:02 PM

Ukraine army chief warns of threat of new Russian assault on Kyiv

General Valeriy Zaluzhny believes Russia will strike the capital again in early 2023.

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Dec 15th 2022, 8:47 PM

EU parliament president: In times of crisis, we need hope - here's what we can do for Ukraine

Roberta Metsola outlines a campaign to deliver generators to Ukraine as it faces a winter of war.

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Dec 9th 2022, 1:29 PM

Life in Ukraine: 'When soldiers broke into my mother's house, she simply asked not to kill her'

Polina Bashkina speaks to older Ukrainian people left to cope on the front lines of this war.

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Nov 27th 2022, 10:30 AM

Ukraine battles to reconnect millions in the cold and dark after latest Russian barrage

Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said 60% of homes are still suffering emergency outages more than 24 hours after the Russian strikes.

Ukraine's military accused Russian forces of firing around 70 cruise missiles at targets across the country yesterday.

The Ukrainian energy system is on the brink of collapse.

The World Health Organisation has warned of "life-threatening" consequences.

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Nov 24th 2022, 10:50 PM

# Shortages

Ukraine urges residents to drastically reduce electricity use after Russian strikes

Several power stations have been destroyed by Russian strikes

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Oct 20th 2022, 6:54 AM

# defiant

Defiant Putin says Russia 'doing everything right' in Ukraine

Washington yesterday announced an additional $725 million in military assistance to Kyiv.

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Oct 15th 2022, 7:31 AM

# making ground

Ukraine resets power grid after Russian strikes left towns without power

Ukraine is reeling from Russian attacks that have left scores dead and wounded.

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Oct 13th 2022, 5:46 PM

Biden says that Putin 'miscalculated' Russia's ability to occupy Ukraine

Biden said that while he believed Putin himself was rational, he had underestimated the ferocity of Ukrainian defiance

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Oct 11th 2022, 10:49 PM

Zelenskyy says Ukraine has retaken nearly 2,500 square kilometres in new counteroffensive

Ukraine has in recent days made a second significant push to reclaim territory in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions.

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Oct 7th 2022, 10:08 PM

# Pyongyang

North Korea fires warplanes and tests missiles in response to 'US escalation'

South Korea’s military said it had detected two short-range ballistic missiles launched from the North

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Oct 6th 2022, 1:16 PM

Russia's annexation voting gets underway in occupied Ukraine as West denounces referendum

The referendums are reminiscent of one in 2014 that saw Ukraine’s Crimea annexed by Russia.

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Sep 23rd 2022, 9:35 PM

# Vladimir Putin

Putin says military reserves to be conscripted in first TV address since February

The Ukrainian leader warned against giving in to Putin’s threats.

Vladimir Putin was speaking on Russian television this morning.

In his address he said he was partially mobilising Russian reservists and former soldiers.

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Ukraine: Moscow to stage annexation votes, Putin delays planned TV address

The referendums will begin on Friday in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.

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Sep 20th 2022, 11:50 PM

Money raised from auction of Normal People props to fund short film about Ukraine war

A signed pair of shorts and other Normal People memorabilia were auctioned off.

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Sep 14th 2022, 3:07 PM

Tom Clonan: Putin’s military miscalculations in Ukraine may prove to be his undoing

The security analyst says the stakes are high now as Ukraine troops push back and all eyes are now on Moscow.

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Sep 13th 2022, 3:26 PM

Kyiv claims 'astonishing' advances in east Ukraine

It claims troops have advanced dozens of kilometres.

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Sep 10th 2022, 2:19 PM

# nuclear concerns

Ukraine power plant needs safety zone to avoid nuclear disaster, say experts

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and surrounding areas have been repeatedly hit by shelling that Russia and Ukraine blame on each other’s forces.

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Sep 9th 2022, 5:52 PM

# Russia

Ukraine PM visits Berlin, seeking more weapons

Denys Shmyhal is the first high-level Ukrainian official to visit Germany in months, in a sign of eased tensions between Kyiv and Berlin.

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Sep 4th 2022, 2:49 PM

# Russia

Ukraine plans international court to put Putin on trial

The plan is for a special international tribunal to investigate Russia’s alleged “crime of aggression”.

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Aug 25th 2022, 7:19 AM

# Refugees

Four in five Ukrainian arrivals to Ireland are women and children

The LEA with the highest rate of Ukrainians relative to its population is Ennistymon in Clare (7.2%)

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Aug 19th 2022, 1:30 PM

# Russia

Putin accuses US of prolonging war in Ukraine

Russian officials also called massive explosions at a military facility on the Kremlin-controlled Crimean peninsula, the result of “sabotage”.

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Aug 16th 2022, 2:11 PM

# Blackmail

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of ‘nuclear blackmail’ after shelling at power plant

He renewed his call for fresh sanctions against Moscow.

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Aug 16th 2022, 6:45 AM

# Ukrainian war

Four more ships of grain leave Ukraine as new strike hits nuclear site

Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a new strike at a Russian-occupied nuclear plant.

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Aug 7th 2022, 5:54 PM

US says Russia trying to fabricate evidence after deadly strike on prisoners-of-war

The Ukrainians killed at the Donetsk prison included troops captured during the fall of Mariupol.

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Aug 4th 2022, 6:55 AM

Turkey says first grain cargo could leave Ukraine port Monday

The deal to lift the blockade is aimed at easing a global food crisis that has seen prices soar in some of the world’s poorest countries.

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Jul 31st 2022, 3:32 PM

# mykolaiv

Russian strikes on southern Ukraine city described as 'strongest so far'

At least one person has died after the overnight bombardments in Mykolaiv.

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Jul 31st 2022, 2:20 PM

# Attack

Russia says Odessa strikes hit Western arms as grain deal hangs in the balance

Western nations repeated their condemnation of Russia’s military assault on Ukraine after the strikes.

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Jul 25th 2022, 6:48 AM

North Korea accuses US of biological warfare in Ukraine

Washington and Kyiv have denied the existence of laboratories intended to produce biological weapons in Ukraine.

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Jul 24th 2022, 12:23 PM