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...

   My husband said: if something flies over the lake, just dive, said Mariana Rebets, resting a lakeshore near the eastern Ukrainian front, undeterred...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   On Easter Sunday fighting continued between Russian and Ukrainian troops, officials and soldiers said -- though some told afpnews.bsky.social the...

   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...

   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...

   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,...

   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...

   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...

   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...

   Many Orthodox Ukrainians moved to a new religious calendar in a break with Moscow-linked traditions. But some still celebrate the Epiphany on January...

   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...