I first visited the looted museums of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, in May 2024. At the time, my team at the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit and I were beginning an investigation into the illegal export of artifacts from Kherson to occupied Crimea by Russian forces amid the full-scale war.

Incoming US president says resolving the Russia-Ukraine issue will be a top priority, but analysts in Moscow warn of many sticking points and question Trump’s ‘inspiration and resources’ - Anadolu Aja

Russia attacks the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles, while industrial sites in Russia are set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office on Jan. 20, Ukraine's fate hangs in the balance. While some potential details of Trump's future peace proposals have been leaked, the overall plan still remains unclear.

Donetsk region. Russian shelling killed one resident and wounded seven others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, on Jan. 11. Kherson region. A 56-year-old woman died at the hospital on Jan. 11, succumbing to injuries sustained in last week's Russian drone strike on a bus station in the southern city of Kherson.

During a meeting with Russia's Security Council on Monday, Putin said that his country values the new US administration's statements regarding its intention to reestablish direct communications with Russia.

Video shows a military police officer beating a traumatised soldier with a truncheon before tasing him with a stun gun in the Russian region of Tuva.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday the U.S. has not stopped military aid to Ukraine after newly sworn in U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days.

Volodymyr Zelensky has made a demand for Kyiv to be included in talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that he believes could happen under Donald Trump’s presidency.The Ukrainian President also said on Saturday that the terms of any deal that might arise under the new US President were still unclear – and might not even be clear to Trump himself – because Vladimir Putin had no interest in ending the war.

Four civilians were injured in Russian strikes on Kherson Oblast on 25 January. Source: Kherson Oblast Military Administration; Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration Details: It is specified that the Russians bombarded residential areas of the region's settlements,

Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.