Since many of you ask me what life looks like in Kyiv, here’s a small story about Christmas celebrations and Kyiv’s split reality! Latest for @en.afp.com www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12...
Je conseille à toute le monde de s'abonner à la Déflagration, la newsletter (très pertinente) de @pierrealonso.com, ami et reporter en Ukraine. Sa dernière livraison parle justement d'une déflagration de drone Shahed dans sa cour à 100 mètres de son immeuble (1)
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“My husband said: if something flies over the lake, just dive,” said Mariana Rebets, resting a lakeshore near the eastern Ukrainian front, undeterred by drones, airstrikes, or Russian advances close by. Latest for @afp.com
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College sweethearts Mykyta and Sofia Lamekhov had simple dreams: safety for their family and a fresh start at life, away from the war they thought they had left behind in east Ukraine. Latest for @afp.com
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“You stop breathing. For a certain period of time, life around you just freezes. And you don't know what will happen after the explosion," said Yuliia Holovnina, describing Russian air attacks that forced her to shelter in the metro for the night. @afp.com www.barrons.com/news/as-stri...
"If someone just said, 'I saw your son.' Just one word. I would carry them in my arms and kiss them," said Lyubov Brodovska, hoping Ukrainian soldiers freed in a prisoner exchange would give a sign of life of her son, who went missing in combat. @afp.com
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The war has given a sense of urgency to military couples in Ukraine, many seeing no point in waiting for a peace that seems little more than a mirage. Latest for @afpfr.bsky.social www.barrons.com/news/ukraine...
On Easter Sunday fighting continued between Russian and Ukrainian troops, officials and soldiers said -- though some told @afpnews.bsky.social the intensity of combat had temporarily decreased in some areas.
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There is little faith among Ukraine's troops that the Kremlin leader would keep his word -- or that any brief pause in the fighting would lead to a wider ceasefire. In Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, for @afpnews.bsky.social www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...
"They did not drive by, they did not flee -- but they stopped to help the people who were hit by a first missile. The second one took their lives," the priest said at the funeral of Maryna Chudesa and Liudmyla Sergiyenko in Sumy. Latest for @AFP
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Recent recruits from the Da Vinci Wolves battalion did not believe Trump's promises of a quick peace, and its commander told AFP "if no one helps us, we are ready to fight with sticks". Recent work for @afpfr.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/post/48487
En gelant l’aide militaire à l’Ukraine, les Etats-Unis offrent un nouveau cadeau inespéré à Moscou. Ils cessent de traiter ce pays, victime de l’invasion russe, comme un allié, préférant l’humilier et le rendre plus vulnérable encore.
Breaking news: President Donald Trump has decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the negotiating table with Russia.
Donald Trump. Hero of the Russian Federation.
"The most immediate beneficiary of the move is President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia."
L’Ukraine ne baisse ni les yeux ni les bras. Le sermon infligé à Zelensky par Trump révolte le pays agressé, ulcéré que Washington confonde bourreau et victime. Même les voix critiques du chef de l’État le soutiennent. De Kyiv @pierrealonso.com pour @mediapart.fr
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Ukrainians in the streets of Kyiv didn’t mince their words after the Trump-Zelensky altercation, including one resident who said the US was « kissing the feet » of dictators like Putin. My latest for @afpfr.bsky.social www.france24.com/en/live-news...
“If they close the mine, the region will die,” said a miner in the eastern Donetsk region, where advances from Russian troops have forced many facilities to shut down. For @afpfr.bsky.social
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"Some people still have this idea of a psychological border, they think that Russians won't cross. We thought so too before gliding bombs hit us," said a resident of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, which fears a first Russian breakthrough. For @afpfr.bsky.social www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Many Orthodox Ukrainians moved to a new religious calendar in a break with Moscow-linked traditions. But some still celebrate the Epiphany on January 19, including near the front where @AFP spoke to locals and to the acting head of the Sviatogirsk church www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
“I’m torn because I want the guys to stop dying, but I want to see my mum again,” said Volodya, looking at Trump’s vows of a truce between Ukraine and Russia that would leave his hometown and his mother in Russian occupation. For @afpnews.bsky.social www.barrons.com/news/soldier...
