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Whether it’s military updates, political changes, or international reactions — we bring you the latest Ukraine news as it happens. All reports are carefully curated from verified sources and KyivPost correspondents on the ground.
While the Nordic countries, along with the UK, stepped up their military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine the most in 2025, Germany reduced its support by 70%.
Europe allocated to Ukraine an extra €10.4 billion ($12 billion) in military aid and €9.8 billion ($11.3 billion) in humanitarian and financial aid in March and April 2025 – the largest two-month donation since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Meanwhile, the United States, previously the largest donor, has not provided any new aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the year, according to the latest update to the Ukraine Support Tracker by the Kiel Institute for World Economics.
Billions of dollars’ worth of assets have been confiscated by the Russian state since 2022.
A Russian court ruled Tuesday to transfer ownership of Moscow’s privately owned Domodedovo airport to the state, the latest asset to fall into government hands in a sweeping nationalization drive.
Russian courts have taken over dozens of private businesses since Moscow launched its Ukraine offensive in 2022, part of what critics call a Kremlin effort to shore up control of the economy.
Gen. Ben Hodges says Ukraine’s deep strikes are reshaping the war, weakening Russia’s cohesion and boosting Ukraine’s role in Europe’s defense future.
The EU is planning to end dependency on Russian gas.
The European Union on Tuesday laid out its proposal to ban Russian gas imports by the end of 2027, ending decades of dependency that Brussels has struggled to sever following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
The European Commission indicated last month it would seek to prohibit Russian gas imports under new contracts as of January 1, 2026 and imports under existing short-term contracts by June 17 next year.
Israel and Iran exchange missile strikes as Trump urges Tehran’s residents to evacuate. Macron says a ceasefire proposal is on the table amid growing European concern.
Israel and Iran continue to carry out missile strikes against each other, and US President Donald Trump has called on Tehran’s residents to evacuate the city. In the meantime, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that a proposal for a ceasefire is on the table. European commentators assess the consequences of the conflict for the region and beyond.
Fuel supplies could be blocked
Britain sets an example in stepping up economic pressure on Russia.
The UK on Tuesday tightened its sanctions on Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, slapping bans on 20 more ships and blacklisting 10 other people or bodies involved in energy and shipping.
Security analysts say the fleet of ageing vessels is used by Russia to circumvent international sanctions that ban it from selling oil.
Kyiv Post got the inside track on how the whole range of drones Ukraine uses to to take on Russia’s invaders – seeing the components used, how they are put together and tested.
An inter-agency working group designed to pressure Russia into advancing peace talks with Ukraine was shut down, as officials say the effort “lost steam” after Trump appeared to lose interest.
The Trump administration has quietly dismantled an inter-agency working group that had been tasked with developing strategies to pressure Russia into speeding up peace negotiations with Ukraine.
Reuters reported, citing three US officials, that the group was launched in March or April, at a time when some of US President Donald Trump’s closest advisers had grown skeptical about the Kremlin’s willingness to negotiate in good faith, despite Trump’s campaign rhetoric suggesting he might reconsider his previously accommodating approach toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ruslan Kravchenko participated in the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone) while serving as a prosecutor and was discharged from military service in 2020.
The Verkhovna Rada has appointed Ruslan Kravchenko as Ukraine’s new Prosecutor General, with 273 lawmakers voting in favor.
People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on Telegram that five MPs voted against, 23 abstained, and 20 did not participate in the vote.
Russia’s Security Council chief Sergei Shoigu made the announcement during a visit to North Korea, where he held talks with leader Kim Jong Un for the second time in less than two weeks.
North Korea will send military builders and demining troops to help rebuild Russia’s western Kursk region after a Ukrainian incursion, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday, June 17.
Russia’s Security Council chief Sergei Shoigu made the announcement during a visit to North Korea, where he held talks with leader Kim Jong Un for the second time in less than two weeks.
Russia is using the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa as a tool of hybrid influence, building pro-Kremlin networks under the guise of a spiritual mission.
Russia is actively using the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) as a tool of hybrid influence across the African continent. According to Andriy Yusov, a representative of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR), the ROC is building pro-Russian networks under the guise of a “spiritual mission” to spread Kremlin-friendly narratives and strengthen Moscow’s influence in the region.
“The aggressor state is exporting not only weapons to Africa, but also ‘Orthodoxy.’ The Church is being used as an instrument of influence and to undermine legitimate ecclesiastical structures. This is yet another element of Russia’s hybrid expansion,” Yusov said.
North Korea has become one of Russia’s main allies during Moscow’s Ukraine offensive, sending thousands of troops to help the Kremlin oust Ukrainian forces from its Kursk border region.
Russia’s security chief Sergei Shoigu arrived on Tuesday in North Korea to meet leader Kim Jong Un for a second time in less than two weeks, Russian news agencies reported.
North Korea has become one of Russia’s main allies during Moscow’s more than three-year-long Ukraine offensive, sending thousands of troops to help the Kremlin oust Ukrainian forces from its Kursk border region.
The Archimatika company has proposed to include shelter rooms in a new residential complex in Lviv based on Israeli experience and after consultation with Ukraine’s Emergency Services.
The Ukrainian private company Archimatika will build the first residential complex containing individual safety shelters in every flat to protect residents from Russian air attack in Lviv, according to a company June 12 press release cited by Interfax-Ukraine reported citing Archimatika press release from June 12.
“The most common injury during shelling is shrapnel caused by blast waves. A safety room is an individual space that provides additional protection from such fragments”, the press release said, quoting the project’s architect Oleksandr Stolovyi.
Russia launched another major aerial attack on Ukraine involving more than 440 drones and 32 missiles across Ukraine, including 175 drones and 16 missiles that targeted Kyiv alone.
Russia launched more than 440 drones and 32 missiles across Ukraine overnight on June 16 / 17, with 175 drones and 16 missiles – including ballistic missiles – targeting Kyiv alone, Ukrainian officials reported.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the massive Russian attack in a Telegram post, calling it “one of the most terrible strikes on Kyiv” since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Videos posted on social media showed the Roshel Senator MRAP vehicle still managing to keep going as it evacuated wounded AFU troops despite having lost a wheel to a probable anti-tank mine.
A video of a badly damaged Canadian-built Roshel Senator “mine resistant ambush protected” (MRAP) vehicle was posted on X by the Ukrainian blogger Star Hunter on Monday, that showed the armored vehicle evacuating Ukrainian troops from the front lines in the Pokrovsk area of the Donetsk region, despite having lost its right rear wheel.
The images conjured up references to the 1965 song by the US folk band the New Christy Minstrels:
After a deadly wave of Russian strikes killed at least 14 in Kyiv, Ukrainian leaders criticized the lack of international response. President Zelensky called the attacks “pure terrorism.”
Ukraine on Tuesday criticized what it described as the international community’s inadequate response to Russia’s latest large-scale missile and drone attack, which killed at least 14 people in Kyiv and injured dozens more.
The overnight assault struck several cities across Ukraine, but the capital was hit particularly hard in what officials called one of the most intense bombardments in recent months.
Kyiv was hit especially hard in what authorities called one of the most extensive bombardments in recent months.
[UPDATES] Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that at least 22 people were killed and 134 wounded in Kyiv after one of the deadliest Russian attacks on the capital since the war began more than three years ago.
Emergency crews said 17 of the victims were pulled from the rubble of a nine-story apartment building in the city’s Solomyansky district. In response to the attack, 120 emergency medical teams were deployed across the city.
Donald Trump left the G7 summit a day early as US ally Israel and Iran exchanged fire for a fifth straight day, saying, “I have to be back as soon as I can. They understand – this is big stuff.”
US President Donald Trump said his early departure from the G7 summit in Canada on Monday had “nothing to do” with a possible ceasefire between Israel and Iran, adding that France’s leader had been “wrong” to suggest otherwise.
“Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
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US President is “mistaken” about Russia, Western diplomat tells Kyiv Post; “I have to be back, as soon as I can,” Trump told reporters in response to a question Monday night about his plan change.
US President Donald Trump on Monday decided to cut short his attendance at the Group of Seven summit in Canada, where he was scheduled to meet with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky Tuesday afternoon, Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent reported from the US delegation’s plane, just before its earlier-than-planned takeoff from Alberta.
Trump’s abrupt decision to return to Washington DC came just hours after the US president said in a social media post that people in Iran’s capital Tehran “should evacuate immediately.”
“Liberal issues” such as climate change, biodiversity, poverty and others are absent from list of topics missing at the summit in Canada, as Trump’s oligarchic administration takes point.
Gender equality, climate change, biodiversity, poverty, health, gay rights and more; the list of issues missing at the Canada G7 from past summits is long.
The G7 gathering has been carefully planned to ensure US President Donald Trump agreed to attend at all and Canada is keen to avoid a public dust-up.
Trump said it was a mistake to exclude Russia from the G8 group of wealthy nations, as the remaining members, now known as the G7, meet in Canada.
The leaders of Canada, Italy, the US, France, Germany, UK and Japan have gathered for the G7 summit in the mountain resort of Kananaskis in Canada along with EU officials and other guests, with the focus on renewed conflict in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Russia was expelled from the political and economic forum following its 2014 annexation of Crimea, a precursor to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
