Ukraine anniversary

This is Ukraine’s darkest hour since the invasion. The country is exhausted. But no one trusts a Putin negotiation

This brutal and attritional war shows little sign of coming to an end this year

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald says expelling Russian ambassador must ‘be on the table’ following death of Alexei Navalny

The population of the Donegal town has increased by almost 50% from the influx of refugees since the Ukraine-Russia war began two years ago

As war enters third year, Russia has intensified bombardments of Ukrainian ports and grain infrastructure

Ukraine prepares to mark two years since start of Russia’s all-out invasion

Saturday is the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These photographs show the extent of the changes the country has undergone since

Protesters have not missed a day since war on Ukraine began: ‘Not Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day. The numbers might be small but there’s always a presence’

Kremlin’s armed takeover in 2014 stirred memories of brutal Soviet oppression under Stalin

On the remote west Cork island, ‘Sherkrainians’ have found refuge but watch the war in Ukraine from afar with horror ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion

Healy opened the Irish Embassy in Kyiv in June 2021 and has since faced a pandemic and a major war, but she has no regrets

Bloody end of Maidan protests in 2014 marked start of Russian onslaught against Ukraine

As Russia-Ukraine war’s second anniversary nears, women who fled here with their children still face a ‘colossal barrier’ to entering the workforce due to unaffordable childcare

One year ago today, Russian troops rolled into Bucha in Ukraine. Liudmyla Kizilova’s husband of 50 years was shot dead and troops took over her house

Dr Aideen Gough, who has hosted refugees in her own home, says new host families are needed to give existing hosts a break

Analysts say Kremlin’s claim to effectively be fighting Nato in Ukraine helps gloss over Russia’s military failures and huge losses

Trade, diplomatic relations and geopolitical perspectives on democracy make many players feel closer to Moscow than Kyiv

The city’s cathedral is now a distribution hub for medical supplies, food, clothing and heaters and is a place where people come to help and be helped

Moscow’s military miscalculation is beginning to play out economically with GDP reversing, oil and gas revenue declining and, perhaps worst of all, the exodus of its youngest and brightest workers

Russia’s invasion supposed to be a quick and limited war. It has turned into a quagmire for Kremlin

Beijing frustrated by Europeans’ pestering about conflict, noting that ‘US is the number one warmonger in world’

Demonstrations in north Dublin area this week informed by false information about “150 Somalian men” moving into sports hall

Claims by journalist Seymour Hersch the US was involved have been dismissed and Moscow denies culpability

Further sanctions against Russia as Ukraine receives first Western-made tanks from Poland

Thousands turn up to GPO and across Ireland to remember anniversary of Russian invasion

Kyiv receives first Western-made tanks from Poland while US and Britain announce further sanctions on Russia

EU digs in on backing Kyiv on grim one-year anniversary since Russian tanks rolled in

Having spent several weeks of living in hotels, Olesia Borsuk was asked if she wanted to move in with a gay couple. She knew nothing about her new housemates

Number is an increase of 10 per cent on previous update in December

Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin to attend main event outside the GPO

Beijing warns Moscow against use of nuclear weapons

Kerry TD accommodating 13 Ukrainians in former guesthouse in Tralee

‘What Putin is doing is terrible, but Ukraine is not afraid. This is the end for him’

The Ukraine war has been captured by photo journalists and on social media like no other conflict. Here are some of those pictures captured during 12 months of fighting across Ukraine

Viktor Serdeniuk, who played for Shamrock Rovers last season, has been joined in Ireland by a former teammate, writes Noel Baker

Invasion has not only failed spectacularly to achieve Putin’s objectives but has succeeded in uniting Europe and US in new common purpose

David O’Sullivan is addressing the question of how to make the EU’s unprecedented economic sanctions bite

War transformed the bloc, hardening outlook on defence and overturning energy system built-up over decades

Motyzhyn, a village near Kyiv, is counting the tragic cost of Russian occupation

Peter Burke says a generation of Russian youth has been ‘sacrificed to Putin’s imperialist fantasies’