Ukrainian forces have suffered setbacks in the east as Russian troops backed by powerful artillery bombardments continue their grinding advance focused on encircling Ukraine's last pocket of resistance in the eastern Luhansk region.
MoreUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russian forces are trying to seize the Chernobyl power plant, which is the site of world's worst nuclear disaster.
MoreU.S. President Joe Biden told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on December 9 that the United States fully supports Ukrainian sovereignty in the face of a buildup of Russian troops near its border, the White House said.
MoreAn appeals court in the Netherlands has ruled that Ukraine has legal control over a trove of ancient artifacts from Crimea that was on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia seized the peninsula in 2014 in a decision hailed by Kyiv but slammed by Moscow.
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