A Russian airstrike on apartment buildings in west Ukraine left at least 26 people dead and missing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/world/twenty-six-killed-russian-strike-west-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
The U.S. has signaled to Kyiv that it must give up territory and some weapons in a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/world/politics/ukraine-land-arms-us-peace-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #us
Two top U.S. Army officials have made a rare wartime visit to Kyiv, in an unannounced trip for talks with Ukraine’s leaders in an attempt to revive stalled peace talks with Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/world/politics/us-army-ukraine-peace-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #us
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected on Monday to seal deals with France on a supply of air-defense capabilities, warplanes and missiles. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/world/politics/zelenskyy-france-defense-warplane/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #france #defense
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme involving a former associate. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/world/politics/ukraine-energy-corruption-scandal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy #germangalushchenko
Group of Seven foreign ministers discussed ways to increase pressure on Russia over the war in Ukraine amid doubts over whether Moscow is interested in negotiating an end to the conflict. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/world/politics/g7-russia-ukraine-peace/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #marcorubio #canada #anitaanand #g7 #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
Russia said its forces had pushed deeper into the Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk, with one video showing Russian soldiers moving into Pokrovsk on motorbikes and on the roofs of battered cars and vans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/world/russia-ukraine-pokrovsk-video/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
Ukrainian investigators on Tuesday accused a close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of orchestrating a $100 million corruption scheme, as a major standoff over graft in the war-torn country escalates. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/world/zelenskyy-ally-graft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy
The cracks in Polish support for Ukrainians are now becoming more evident, with opposition to supporting Ukraine taking center stage in a power struggle at the top of Poland’s politics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/world/politics/poland-support-ukrainians/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #poland #immigration #refugees #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
Kyiv was scrambling to turn the power back on after Russian missile attacks reduced Ukraine's energy capacity to "zero." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/09/world/ukraine-power-generation-zero/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has vowed, in her first telephone talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that Japan will continue to support Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/japan/takaichi-zelenskyy-support-phone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sanaetakaichi #volodymyrzelenskyy #ukrainejapanrelations #russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy painted his meeting last week with U.S. President Donald Trump as a success that yielded progress on acquiring new air defense systems, a contrast from earlier reports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/21/world/politics/zelenskyy-trump-patriot-systems/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to give up swaths of territory to Russia during a tense meeting on Friday that left the Ukrainian delegation disappointed, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/world/politics/trump-zelenskyy-concessions-russia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #us #donaldtrump #volodymyrzelenskyy #vladimirputin
NATO and the EU sought ways to boost anti-drone defenses as Europe looks to counter the threat from Russia after a series of air incursions in Poland and Estonia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/16/world/politics/nato-eu-drone-defense-russia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nato #eu #drones #defense #markrutte #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #missiles
Kyiv is calling on allies to tighten sanctions controls on Moscow amid a surge in foreign components found in Russian drones used to attack Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/world/politics/ukraine-russia-drones-components/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #drones #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
Donald Trump said he’d consider give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles that would allow strikes deeper into Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/world/politics/trump-putin-us-tomahawks-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #missiles #us #donaldtrump
Russian strikes in recent days have wiped out more than half of Ukraine’s domestic natural gas production, likely forcing the war-battered country to spend €1.9 billion on fuel imports to survive the looming winter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/world/russian-ukraine-strikes-gas-winter/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
Thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles hover above more than 1,000 kilometers of front lines in Ukraine's east and south at any one time, making even small infantry advances dangerous and costly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/world/ukraine-front-line-cities/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy
A Russian drone and missile attack against Ukraine lasting 12 hours killed at least four people in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old girl, Ukrainian authorities said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/world/russian-drone-missile-attack-kyiv/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #kyiv #drones
U.S President Donald Trump’s newly upbeat view of Kyiv’s prospects in its war against the Russian invasion bore signs of a familiar move — his upping the pressure not on Russia but on Europe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/25/world/politics/trump-shift-ukraine-europe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #us #donaldtrump #eu #un #nato #europe