1+ hour, 34+ min ago   (562+ words) A small drone crashed on the grounds of a military base in central Poland on Feb. 6, local authorities reported, marking the latest in a series of drone-related incidents near strategic sites across Europe. Earlier drone sightings in several European countries…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago   (551+ words) The former head of the State Border Guard has been dismissed from the Ukrainian military following his being charged in a bribery scandal, Suspilne reported on Feb. 6. In 2023 border guards received at least 204,000 euros for facilitating the smuggling of cigarettes…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1663+ words) Muleshoe, population 5,000, sits in the Texas Panhandle, next to the New Mexico state line, and about as far away from Ukraine as anywhere can be. A small, arid town linked to the outside world by a patchwork of county roads…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1057+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 31 published over 3 million documents in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Some of them had a direct connection to Ukraine. The Kyiv Independent continues to review the documents published by the Department of…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (600+ words) The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained three men accused of working for Moscow's Federal Security Service (FSB) and preparing terrorist attacks on Odesa, the agency said on Jan. 30. According to the SBU, the men, a 36-year-old draft dodger,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (595+ words) A Russian drone strike on an oil terminal in Lviv Oblast overnight on Jan. 27 caused a fire and heavy smoke in nearby areas, prompting local authorities to issue public safety warnings and temporarily suspend school classes. No casualties were reported....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (650+ words) Editor's note: This item has been updated to clarify that the amount of seized ferrous metal was 33,000 tons. Italian financial police detained a vessel arriving from Russian territorial waters of the Black Sea at the port of Brindisi on Jan....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (649+ words) The West has accused Russian intelligence services of a number of sabotage attacks across Europe as Moscow hopes to destabilize countries supporting Ukraine. On Jan. 7, officials filed indictments against four Ukrainian nationals and a Russian citizen, accusing them of participating…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (901+ words) Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated. The leader of a political party in Ukraine's parliament (Verkhovna Rada) has been offering "illicit benefits" to other lawmakers in exchange for votes, Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (408+ words) A car belonging to a soldier exploded in Kyiv on Jan. 4, injuring him, the city prosecutor's office reported. The explosion occurred in Kyiv's northern Obolon district around 10:30 a.m. local time, according to a Kyiv Independent reporter on the ground. The blast…...