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NIZHYN, Ukraine—The Ukrainian platoon was digging in desperately along a tree line in this country’s east when grenades began exploding around it and Russian soldiers crept in from the left. The 16 Ukrainians fought back as best they could but couldn’t stop the Russians from overrunning a position held by five of their number, including Pvt. Oleksandr Matsievskiy, a 42-year-old electrician who lived with his mother and was new to front-line combat.

☆ Ukraine Says Frontlines Around Embattled City of Bakhmut Are Stabilizing
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine —The commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, said the front lines around the eastern city of Bakhmut were stabilizing after months of grueling combat, as Western officials and analysts say Russia’s offensive there is losing momentum. Russian forces have moved to encircle Bakhmut in recent weeks while also intensifying attacks across the broader front line in eastern Ukraine, putting Kyiv on the defensive after a string of victories last year.

The commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, said the front lines around the eastern city of Bakhmut were stabilizing after months of grueling combat, as Western officials and analysts say Russia’s offensive there is losing momentum. While there have been fewer clashes in Bakhmut in recent days, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military’s eastern command said it was too soon to conclude Russia’s offensive there had run out of steam.

☆ Slovakia to Send 13 MiG Jet Fighters to Ukraine Ahead of Counteroffensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Isabel Coles | Georgi Kantchev | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Slovakia said it would send 13 MiG-29 jet fighters to Ukraine after Poland pledged to supply four, marking a significant boost in support for Kyiv as it builds up for a counteroffensive against Russia’s invading forces. Poland on Thursday became the first Western nation to say it would supply warplanes to Kyiv, underscoring Warsaw’s leading role in European policy-making on Ukraine.

BRUSSELS—The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and another senior Kremlin official accused of war crimes, a historic move that focuses attention on tens of thousands of young war victims. The warrants are linked to Russia’s forced deportation of children from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. It marks the first time the leader of a nuclear superpower has been called to account before the court, an independent international institution established in 2002 to end impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

☆ U.N. Sees Wide Range of War Crimes by Russian Forces in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Daniella Cheslow | Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The conflict in Mariupol, Ukraine, has left apartments destroyed and residents devastated. United Nations investigators have gathered evidence of a range of atrocities that Russian forces committed against Ukrainians that amount to war crimes, a United Nations commission found. An independent commission formed under the U.N. Human Rights Council cited evidence of killings, imprisonment, torture, sex crimes and the deportation of civilians, according to a report released on Thursday. Ukrainian forces also committed “a small number of violations” of international law, the commission found, including the shooting and torture of Russian prisoners of war, the report stated.

☆ Russia Strikes Kharkiv as Ukraine’s Allies Prepare to Discuss Military Support
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia struck civilian infrastructure in Ukraine’s northern city of Kharkiv on Wednesday, while Western defense officials prepared to discuss Kyiv’s military needs ahead of its expected offensive to retake territory seized by Moscow. Andriy Yermak , the chief of Ukraine’s presidential staff, said a missile had landed near a school in Kharkiv, damaging buildings but causing no casualties. Emergency services were on the scene, said the head of the Kharkiv region’s military administration, Oleh Synehubov.

☆ Russia Strikes Kharkiv as Ukraine’s Allies Discuss Military Support
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia struck civilian infrastructure in Ukraine’s northern city of Kharkiv on Wednesday, while Western defense officials discussed Kyiv’s military needs ahead of its expected offensive to retake territory seized by Moscow. Andriy Yermak , the chief of Ukraine’s presidential staff, said a missile had landed near a school in Kharkiv, damaging buildings but causing no casualties. Emergency services were on the scene, said the head of the Kharkiv region’s military administration, Oleh Synehubov.

☆ Russian, Ukrainian Forces Pinned Down in Fight for Key City
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian servicemen use a howitzer artillery weapon on the front line near Bakhmut, Ukraine. Russian forces staged multiple attacks on the eastern city of Bakhmut on Sunday in a bid to gain new ground, while Ukrainian forces defending the eastern city continued to fight to prevent being cut off there after months of grinding combat. The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on Sunday that Russian forces had attacked 15 villages on the Bakhmut front over the past day. “The Russians did not stop storming the city of Bakhmut,” it said.

On the day she had been due to give birth last year, Viktoria Shishkina was asleep on the first floor of the maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine—then under siege by Russian forces. That morning was unusually quiet—until the strike that changed everything. The bombing of the maternity hospital was an early watershed in a war that shattered Ms. Shishkina’s city—and her life. In the wake of the blast, the image of a pregnant woman with blood smeared on her face became a symbol of Russia’s aggression. Another woman was photographed on a stretcher clutching her pregnant belly.

☆ Ukraine Hit in One of Russia’s Biggest Missile Barrages This Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia fired missiles at Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine overnight, striking infrastructure facilities in one of the biggest barrages this year. Rescue workers were at the scene of explosions in two districts of the capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. About 40% of Kyiv’s residents were without heating after Ukraine imposed emergency power outages to protect the grid. An infrastructure facility in the Holosivskiy district was hit, the Kyiv city military administration said.

☆ Ukraine Is Hit by Russian Missile Barrage Including Hypersonic Weapons
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Isabel Coles | Georgi Kantchev | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia fired dozens of missiles including hypersonic weapons at regions across Ukraine on Thursday, striking civilian infrastructure and the country’s defense industry. The barrage was one of the biggest this year as Moscow’s forces continued to claw more territory in the east. Russia launched 81 missiles of different varieties from air, land and sea, in addition to eight Iranian-made attack drones, according to Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny , the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. Four of the drones and 34 cruise missiles were intercepted, Gen. Zaluzhny said.

☆ Ukraine Hit by One of Russia’s Biggest Missile Barrages This Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Isabel Coles | Georgi Kantchev | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia fired dozens of missiles at Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine overnight, striking critical infrastructure in one of the biggest barrages this year as its forces continued to claw more territory in the east. Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, said Russia had launched 81 missiles of different varieties from air, land and sea, in addition to eight Iranian-made attack drones. Four of the drones and 34 cruise missiles were intercepted, Gen. Zaluzhny said.

☆ Ukraine Appoints New Anticorruption Head as It Seeks to Allay West’s Concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Isabel Coles | Gordon Lubold | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, here displaying seized U.S. dollar notes before the war, was launched with FBI support. Ukraine appointed a new anticorruption chief as Kyiv seeks to show Western allies funneling billions of dollars in aid to the country that it is serious about tackling graft. The appointment of Semen Kryvonos as director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday comes at a time when the mounting costs of subsidizing Ukraine’s resistance against Russia’s invasion have brought concerns around corruption back into focus.

☆ Russia Launches Deadly Missile Strike on Ukraine Apartment Block
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia struck a multistory apartment block in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia overnight, killing at least four people in an attack condemned by President Volodymyr Zelensky as an act of terrorism. Rescue workers were digging through the rubble of the building on Thursday, officials said. Eleven people were rescued from the wreckage. City-council official Anatoliy Kurtiev said Russia hit the residential block with an S-300 surface-to-air missile, which Moscow has deployed extensively to strike targets across Ukraine.

☆ Ukraine Focus Returns to Battlefield as War’s First Anniversary Passes
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After a wave of new Western sanctions and commemorations to mark the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian forces were again focused on repelling Russian attempts to advance in the crucial battlegrounds in the east. The Ukrainian military Saturday said it had halted around 70 attacks in the east of the country, where Russia has ramped up efforts to seize the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions since last month.

DNIPRO, Ukraine—Tetyana Dychko tried not to worry when her husband, freshly conscripted into the Ukrainian army, stopped responding to messages. Yuriy Synerub, a 38-year-old electrician, had warned he might lose the cellphone signal on the front lines, where he was dispatched late last year.

☆ Wagner Head Draws Back From Feud With Russian Military Over Group’s Losses in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Isabel Coles | Georgi Kantchev | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The head of Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group said Thursday that supplies of ammunition were on the way to his troops, stepping back from his latest disagreement with the country’s military establishment, which he blamed for causing the deaths of his fighters by withholding supplies. Yevgeny Prigozhin , whose fighters have helped spearhead the Ukraine campaign in recent months, posted a photograph of dozens of corpses of his fighters late Wednesday saying only a fraction would have been killed if Russia’s top brass had provided them with enough ammunition.

☆ Russia’s New Offensive in Ukraine Exposes Blunders, Poor Training
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Isabel Coles | Thomas Grove | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

MAKSYMIVKA, Ukraine—Drone footage taken by the Ukrainian military panned across the icy battlefields of the eastern Donbas area to reveal demolished tanks and a Russian soldier lying face down in a pool of blood. Other footage captured nearby showed a smoldering Russian tank trampling two soldiers—it is unclear if they are dead or wounded—while trying to maneuver. In a third video shared by Ukrainian commanders, a Russian soldier, his clothing on fire, flees a tank moments before it explodes.

☆ U.S. Warns China Could Arm Russia, as Ukraine Seeks to Repel Advances in East
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DNIPRO, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces said they repelled Russian attacks along the front line in the east of the country, as the U.S. expressed concerns that Beijing was considering supplying Moscow with arms and ammunition. Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions in the eastern Donbas region, the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Sunday, including around the city of Bakhmut, which has become an epicenter of the war in recent months.

U.S. officials are warning China against supplying Russia with arms and ammunition, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in Ukraine despite deploying almost the entirety of its ground forces in its smaller neighbor. Concerns that China was considering providing lethal assistance to Russia first surfaced in meetings between officials late last year and early this year, officials said. U.S. officials put their Chinese counterparts on notice in videoconferences and at in-person meetings that China is “nearing a red line” in assisting Russia’s war, the officials said.

☆ Russia Has Deployed 97% of Army in Ukraine but Is Struggling to Advance, U.K. Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Isabel Coles | David Luhnow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The U.K. said Russia has deployed nearly its entire military in Ukraine, increasing pressure along the front line in the east of the country but falling short of a breakthrough. Ukrainian officials have warned of a renewed Russian onslaught to coincide with the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion next week. But some Western officials say the offensive is unlikely to be one single event. Russian forces have redoubled attacks along the front lines in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, eking out gains after a series of reversals last year.

CHASIV YAR, Ukraine—Ukrainian soldiers have dug trenches and reinforced them with logs in the snow-covered hills here as part of a freshly strengthened defensive line west of the country’s deadliest battlefield. About 5 miles away, Russian forces are pressing ahead with a grinding advance on the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in a monthslong battle that has chewed up hundreds of soldiers.

☆ Moldova Says Russian Missile Entered Its Airspace as Barrage in Ukraine Intensifies
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine—Moldova said a Russian missile entered its airspace en route to a target in Ukraine during the latest wave of Russian attacks, adding to the risk of the war spilling over as the Kremlin laid out its plans to mark the first anniversary of the invasion. The commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, said two missiles were launched from the Black Sea on Friday and strayed across the border with Moldova and over Romania—a North Atlantic Treaty Organization member—before re-entering Ukrainian airspace. Both Moldova and Romania said one missile had been detected, and that it had passed only over Moldova, which condemned it as a violation of its airspace.

☆ Russia Pushes on Several Fronts in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Isabel Coles | Evan Gershkovich | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DNIPRO, Ukraine—Russian forces launched multiple attacks in eastern Ukraine, pushing for a breakthrough on the battlefield ahead of the delivery of new Western weapons, although the U.K. cast doubt on the prospects for a major Russian offensive. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Russia was regrouping and attacking on five fronts in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as part of a wider offensive anticipated by Kyiv and its Western allies.

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