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Gunman opens fire in Kyiv, killing several people and wounding others

A gunman who opened fire on people in Kyiv on Saturday, has left at least six dead and others wounded, the Ukrainian capital's mayor Vitali Klitschko said. According to police the man has now been shot dead after barricading himself in a nearby supermarket.

18/04/2026

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Ukraine: Russian strikes hit Kyiv’s Podilsky district

Russian strikes hit Kyiv’s Podilsky district, injuring dozens and damaging homes, as part of a wider wave of deadly attacks across Ukraine.

16/04/2026

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Ukraine: Deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro leave 12 dead

Russian strikes on Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro killed at least 12 people, including a child, as fighting and failed ceasefire efforts drag on in mid-April.

16/04/2026

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Strikes hit Sloviansk and Sumy as Russia pounds Ukrainian cities

Russia strikes Sloviansk with a FAB-1500 bomb, wrecking civilian buildings, while repeated drone attacks ignite major fires in Sumy’s industrial zone.

15/04/2026

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Greenpeace warns of potential 'catastrophic' Chernobyl collapse

Failure to repair the protective structure around the nuclear site could unleash 'highly radioactive dust' that 'does not recognise borders', experts warn.

14/04/2026

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Zelenskyy to meet Germany's Merz in Berlin as Russia's war grinds on

Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin as Germany emerges as Kyiv’s main backer amid stalled US-led peace talks.

14/04/2026

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Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating Easter ceasefire

According to Ukraine's General Staff of the armed forces, by 7am the ceasefire had been violated by Russia 2,299 times, including assaults, shelling and small drone launches. However, Russia has refrained from using long-range drones, missiles or guided bombs.

12/04/2026

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Ukraine : Russian drone attacks hit Sumy and Odesa as Easter truce looms

Russian drone strikes hit Sumy and Odesa, injuring two and damaging homes and energy sites, as Putin proposes a brief Easter ceasefire.

10/04/2026

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Druzhba oil pipeline will be fixed this spring, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine’s president said the Druzhba pipeline, whose operational status remains tied to EU funding for Kyiv, will be fixed later this spring, with repair work under way.

10/04/2026

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Ukrainians shot down Iranian drones in the Gulf, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine’s president announced that Ukrainian experts in the Middle East have already shot down Iranian drones in “several countries” with domestically produced interceptors.

10/04/2026

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Putin announces Easter ceasefire, proposed by Kyiv for weeks

Moscow repeatedly ignored Kyiv’s calls for Easter weekend ceasefire around 12 April just to announce what it called its own “unilateral" truce.

10/04/2026

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Russia and Ukraine announce truce for Orthodox Easter

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had previously signalled Kyiv's openness to a potential Easter truce.

09/04/2026

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Euroviews. Fiscal discipline as Ukraine's real test on the road to EU membership

Fiscal discipline will be Ukraine's real test on the road to EU membership, writes Danylo Hetmantsev, chair of parliament’s finance, tax and customs committee, in an op-ed for Euronews. He argues that Ukraine has already shown it can turn shadow economy reforms into real revenue.

09/04/2026

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How releasing endangered bats offers Ukrainians relief from the war

'We're all living in war time, and everyone has their own struggles, but we are doing what we know best'.

07/04/2026

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Russian drone strike on bus stop in Nikopol kills three and injures 12

The Russian drone targeted a moving bus deliberately as it was pulling in to a stop to allow waiting passengers on board, officials said.

07/04/2026

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Russian strike on Odesa kills three, including child

A Russian overnight attack on Ukraine’s port city of Odesa killed three people, including a child, and left several others injured, authorities said.

07/04/2026

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How can Ukraine help unlock the Strait of Hormuz?

US President Donald Trump threatened to unleash "hell" on Iran if it failed to meet his Tuesday deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping. Can Ukraine help unblock it?

06/04/2026

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Zelenskyy warns US-Iran war could divert critical aid from Ukraine

President Zelenskyy has warned that a prolonged US-Israeli war with Iran is threatening the supply of vital Patriot missiles and boosting Russia’s economy through surging oil prices.

05/04/2026

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15 dead across Ukraine in 'massive' Russian aerial attack

Russian strikes killed 15 people in a "massive" assault on Ukraine on Friday and into Saturday while Kyiv proposed an Easter truce and launched retaliatory drone strikes deep into Russian territory.

04/04/2026

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Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region reels after missile and drone strike

Russian missile and drone strikes hit Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, killing one and injuring 10, as dozens of homes and public buildings were destroyed.

03/04/2026

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Kyiv region under 'massive' daytime drone and missile attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv was ready for a truce over the Easter holidays, but the Kremlin said it had not received any proposals.

03/04/2026

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Ukrainian children taken at gunpoint by Russian forces in Kherson

Euronews obtained a copy of one of the documented episodes of Russia's systemic abduction and forceful deportation of Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied territories.

03/04/2026

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Ukraine’s ancient Easter egg art helps preserve national identity

Ukraine is preparing for Easter with the pysanka, a hand‑decorated egg whose colours and symbols differ from one region to another and carry both religious and historical meaning.

03/04/2026

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Over 1.6 million Ukrainians went home to frontline areas, report shows

Feeling homesick outweighs the risk of living in frontline areas for over 1.6 million Ukrainians who have returned home despite constant Russian attacks. ‘Save the Children’ researchers stated that “going back to a warzone is never a choice anyone makes lightly.”

02/04/2026

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Russia fired record number of drones at Ukraine in March, data show

Ukraine has sought to scale up its air defences in response, deploying cheap interceptor drones to destroy their Russian counterparts.

02/04/2026

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Russia launches massive drone barrage on Ukraine as peace talks stall

Diplomatic efforts to end Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine have stalled in recent months, in part because the United States has shifted its focus towards the Iran war.

02/04/2026