Joanna Kakissis

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy fired his top general in the biggest military leadership change since start of war in 2022. The two men had reportedly been feuding for months.

Hungary was the single country blocking Ukraine aid in the 27-member European Union. Today, the country dropped its objection and the EU finally approved a $54 billion aid package.

There is growing tension between Ukraine's president and his military chief of staff. If that general loses his job, Ukrainian society could be divided at a crucial time.

The once-sleepy river ports on the Danube River have become a main route for Ukraine's food exports — and regular targets for Russian missiles.

Ukraine has shifted Christmas from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, further distancing itself from Russian tradition.

As Ukrainians prepare to celebrate Christmas according to the Western calendar for the first time, they fear the support of their biggest allies – the U.S. and the European Union – is wavering.

At a summit this week, EU leaders voted to begin membership negotiations with Ukraine. But Hungary's leader Viktor Organ vetoed a $52 billion aid package.

A two-day European Union summit begins with future aid for Ukraine in doubt.

Ukraine's counteroffensive has resulted in little gain on the battlefield. Some EU members and some members of Congress are questioning whether aid to Ukraine should continue.

A year after Ukrainian soldiers freed it from occupation, the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has learned to live with deadly and near-constant attacks from Russian forces.

Twenty-two months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, dissension and fatigue are evident among Kyiv's most senior officials. The war has reached a stalemate.

In Ukraine's second-largest city, near the Russian border, grade-schoolers attend classes in a subway station that doubles as a bomb shelter.

Ukrainians worry that a regional war in the Middle East will distract their country's allies, embolden Russia and prolong Russia's war on Ukraine.

After a powerful Russian missile kills a fifth of a Ukrainian village's population, survivors grapple with revelations that pro-Russian neighbors may have helped coordinate the attack.

As Ukraine tries to expel Russian forces from its territory, it's fighting a second war — on corruption — as it seeks to join the European Union and NATO and keep U.S. funds flowing.

As winter approaches, Ukraine's military takes stock of the limited gains of its counteroffensive. As the war goes on, support for Ukraine seems to waver — especially among Republicans in Congress.

As bipartisan support in the U.S. wanes, Ukraine hosts foreign ministers from the European Union, which continues to view Russia's war on Ukraine as an existential threat.

A century ago, author Isaac Babel immortalized the Jewish community in one of Ukraine's principal cities. He's still remembered fondly today.

In Ukraine, possibly the world's most mined country, a team of sappers races to clear explosives left by Russians along the southeastern frontline to help Ukrainian troops take back occupied land.

After a classmate was killed in his hometown of Bakhmut — the longest and bloodiest battle in Russia's war on Ukraine — a rescue worker volunteered to evacuate people from the front lines.