Volodymyr Zelensky
‘Feeling the support’: Zelensky gets more weapons after EU leaders’ high-stakes visit
The Ukrainian president is triumphant: ‘Today is a truly historic day - Ukraine has felt the support of four powerful European states at once.’
- by John Leicester and Sylvie
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Macron decries massacres, war crimes as European leaders visit Ukraine to support Zelensky
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Premier Mario Draghi arrived in Kyiv in “a message of European unity”.
- by David Keyton and Benoit Van Overstraeten
Albanese to attend NATO summit, invited to visit Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky has invited the Australian PM to visit Kyiv, an invitation he could take up after he joins world leaders at a NATO summit in Europe later this month.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine must maintain Western attention to win this war
At some point, Russia’s size, brutality and relative wealth will begin to crush the Ukrainians without ongoing Western assistance.
- by Mick Ryan
Analysis
Republic debate
Shot in the arm or false dawn? Albanese’s each-way bet on a republic
There was an echo of the 1999 referendum’s voting patterns in the 2022 election. Could we really be slowly moving towards a republic under Anthony Albanese?
- by Stephen Brook
Biden says ‘Zelensky didn’t want to hear’ warnings that Putin would invade
The president acknowledged that the possibility of Putin launching an invasion may have seemed far-fetched: “I understand why they didn’t want to hear it.”
- by Josh Wingrove and Jordan Fabian
Updated
Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine launching ‘Book of Executioners’ to detail Russian war crimes, says Zelensky
The Ukrainian president said it would be a key element in his longstanding pledge to bring to perpetrators to account.
- by John Leicester and Hanna Arhirova
Zelensky recreates ‘I need ammunition, not a ride’ video for 100th day of invasion
Two days after the invasion, the president’s defiant street video rallied his country to resist. Now he’s returned to the same place in broad daylight.
- by Adam Taylor and Victoria Bisset
Russia now occupies one-fifth of Ukraine: Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukrainian territory now controlled by the Kremlin is comparable to the area of the Netherlands.
- by Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Updated
Russia-Ukraine war
‘Indescribably difficult’: Ukraine, Russia battle in the east as Zelensky visits front
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky visited troops on the front line in the north-eastern Kharkiv region on Sunday.
- by Elena Becatoros
‘Nobody takes my husband away from me’: Ukraine’s first lady details war’s toll on the Zelensky family
In a rare joint television interview, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska have spoken about how Russia’s invasion has “torn apart” their family.
- by Jennifer Hassan