Olena Bilozerska and her husband always knew they wanted children. She was 34 and they were ready to start trying when the war erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The couple joined the fight and decided a baby would have to wait.

Sitting in a circle the day before opening night, Ukrainian war veterans and drama students took turns reading their lines from a script that traveled centuries to reach them. At the center was Olha Semioshkina,

The White House special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has said the Russian and Ukrainian leaders could meet in person.

Russia attacked Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones, killing one person in the Kyiv region, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said Sunday.

Emergency power cuts have hit several Ukrainian cities and neighboring Moldova. Ukraine’s Energy Minister says a technical malfunction caused the outages, affecting power lines between Ukraine and Moldova.

Despite the war and Russian missile attacks, residents of Ukraine's capital Kyiv go ice fishing on the Dnipro river bisecting their city.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported that nearly 300 Russian attack drones and 50 missiles targeted Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, as well as Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava and Sumy oblasts on the night of 21-22 February.

GENEVA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia concluded the first of two ⁠days ⁠of U.S.-mediated peace talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump pressing Kyiv to act fast to reach a deal to end the four-year conflict.