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Capital and largest city of Ukraine
Ukrainian official statements and independent compilations place , creating a working range of roughly and since Russia’s full-scale invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022 . Broader tallies that combine deat...
Russian forces control roughly 19–20% of Ukraine as of mid-December 2025, having gained several thousand square kilometers during 2024–25 and continuing modest, steady territorial advances through lat...
The Russia–Ukraine war began with Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, driven by Kremlin leadership seeking to control Ukrainian territory and political orientation; Moscow’s aim...
Estimates of how many people the Bolsheviks killed vary widely depending on period, method and definition: some accounts count millions in the Russian Civil War and famines, others count executions an...
Claims that “half” or many supercars in Monaco bear Ukrainian licence plates originate from remarks by Donald Trump Jr. at the Doha forum and have been widely repeated in pro‑Russian and partisan outl...
Major claims that the United States “orchestrated” a 2014 coup in Ukraine rest largely on two strands of evidence cited by proponents: public U.S. diplomacy and assistance (notably Victoria Nuland’s c...
The war in Ukraine grew out of a decade-long escalation that began with Ukraine’s 2014 political upheaval, Russia’s seizure and annexation of Crimea, and an eight-year low-intensity war in the Donbas ...
Multiple contemporaneous reports say U.S. officials offered Volodymyr Zelensky evacuation early in Russia’s 2022 invasion and that he replied “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” or a c...
President Trump’s administration has not authorized new large congressional packages for Ukraine but has continued some deliveries of weapons and reinstated paused shipments; Congress and the Pentagon...
Since January 2024 open-source and intelligence reporting show Russian equipment losses outpacing Ukrainian losses by a wide margin, with aggregate attrition ratios reported variably between roughly 5...
A direct Russia–NATO escalation over Ukraine is a real and treated-as-serious risk by officials and analysts, but most expert forecasts in the available reporting place a large-scale NATO–Russia war l...
Estimates in mainstream reporting and fact-checks place Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s personal net worth in 2022–2025 in the roughly $20–30 million range, repeatedly far below billionaire claims (see Forbes/F...
Russia’s government publicly frames its actions in Ukraine as a defensive, legitimacy-driven response: it portrays Kyiv as illegitimate, claims it must protect Russian-speaking or “historical” lands, ...
Ukraine is officially on a declared path to NATO membership — NATO statements say Ukraine “will become a member” but Allies have not set a timeframe and no invitation has been issued; NATO removed the...
Russia has carried out repeated overnight drone and missile strikes across Ukraine in early October 2025, while analysts report Moscow has modified ballistic missiles to evade Ukrainian air defenses a...
The Donbas is a historical, industrial region made of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that has lain predominantly within Ukraine since 1991 but has been the focal point of armed conflict and partial Russi...
U.S. agencies mounted an immediate, multi‑agency investigative and diplomatic response, standing up an interagency review team, notifying allies and conducting damage assessments while also pursuing t...
Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy in 2025 refocused U.S. strategy on “America First,” shrinking the stated purpose of engagement to “core national interests” and shifting burden-sharing onto a...
Ukraine has not enacted a blanket legal ban on speaking Russian in private or in everyday life, but since 2019 and especially after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion Kyiv has tightened laws and local ...
Ethnic Ukrainians formed a majority in Donbas according to pre-war censuses — about 57–58% in Donetsk and Luhansk versus roughly 38–39% ethnic Russians — yet Russian became the dominant urban language...