Russia-Ukraine War

Russia has stepped up its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, killing students and other civilians, in a violent follow-up to dueling high-level diplomatic missions aimed at bringing peace after 13 months of war.

The visits came days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations officials say an unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia has been extended.

The Ukrainian military additionally said in its regular update Saturday morning that Russian forces over the previous 24 hours launched 34 airstrikes, one missile strike and 57 rounds of anti-aircraft fire.

The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”

U.S. and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet — each blaming the other.

The U.S. military said a Russian fighter jet has struck the propeller of a U.S. drone over the Black Sea.

The Biden administration has said it is working on a fix but so far has issued no official guidance on what Ukrainians should do.

The freshly exhumed remains of three men lie in black body bags on the edge of the small cemetery in a town not far from Ukraine’s capital, waiting to be taken to a morgue. None has yet been identified.

The Biden administration is declaring its solidarity with Ukraine by piling sweeping new sanctions on Moscow and approving a fresh $2 billion weapons package for Kyiv. The U.S. action aims to fortify Ukraine a year after Russia’s invasion. New sanctions introduced by the U.S. Treasury on Friday hit Russian firms, banks, manufacturers and individuals, taking aim at entities that helped...

Friday marks one year since Russian forces bullied their way into Ukraine. It has also been one year since Ukrainians by the thousands fled their homes in search of safety. The fighting goes on and so does the humanitarian crisis. NBC’s Jay Gray reports.

The announcement comes just days after President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Kyiv and pledged America’s continuing commitment to Ukraine.

Estimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an incomplete picture of the deaths and suffering. Precise figures may never emerge for some of the categories international organizations are attempting to track.

Ukraine’s president pledged to push for victory in 2023 as he and other Ukrainians on Friday marked the somber first anniversary of the Russian invasion that he called “the longest day of our lives.”

Friday, Feb. 24, will mark one year since millions of Ukrainian families were forced to flee the country.

One year after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine both countries are preparing for offensives that could set the stage for a potentially even more disastrous phase of the war.

A full year has passed since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, shelling cities, killing thousands and displacing millions. See the images that have defined a year of war.

Audio intercepts obtained by The Associated Press of conversations between Russian soldiers in Ukraine and their loved ones give an intimate glimpse of how ordinary men found themselves condoning atrocities and turning into killers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States.

The first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is both grim and vexing as milestones go. It marks a full year of killing, destruction, loss and pain felt even beyond the borders of Russia and Ukraine.