
"Warning! Mandatory Evacuation." Those words were posted just two weeks ago on the website of Mezhivska hromada in Ukraine's central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
By June, the small region of 15,000 found itself around 20 kilometers away from the …
Amy B. Zegart

"Warning! Mandatory Evacuation." Those words were posted just two weeks ago on the website of Mezhivska hromada in Ukraine's central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
By June, the small region of 15,000 found itself around 20 kilometers away from the …

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian negotiations position "has not changed yet," and that "they want our Donbas. And we do not want to give away our Donbas."
Zelensky's comments to journalists late on Dec. 15 came following yet another …



Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it struck a Russian submarine in the port of Novorossiysk that was armed with Kalibr cruise missiles, following a unique special operation using underwater drones.
The SBU says Ukrainian forces conducted another …

NATO’s chief military representative, Gen. Siegfried Koehler, announced a fundamental change in NATO’s approach to Russian hybrid warfare on December 16, 2025. The Alliance no longer views Russian cyber attacks, sabotage, or attacks on critical …


As U.S. pressure on Kyiv grows, Ukrainians oppose Russian demands. If concessions are put up for a vote, those who spoke with the Kyiv Independent said they would flat out deny the terms.
Last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that any …


Few decision makers are interested in making the High Anti-Corruption Court actually work, Vira Mykhailenko, the court's head, said in an interview with the Kyiv Independent.
Set up in 2019 as part of a Western-backed reform, the court was designed to …


At the initiative of the Ukrainian Institute, the Kyiv Independent announces the launch of "The Hidden Canon: Ukraine's Literary Iconoclasts," a new series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature with the goal of bringing it to a wider international …
