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A drone view shows the open pit mine of Zavallievsky Graphite, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zavallia, Ukraine, February 10.

What we do and don’t know about Trump’s ‘very big deal’ on Ukraine’s mineral resources

Ivana Kottasová, CNN February 26, 2025

(CNN) — The United States and Ukraine are trying to hammer out a natural resources agreement that would give Washington access to Kyiv’s untapped mineral riches in exchange for investments and what...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 19.

Trump calls Zelensky ‘a dictator’ after Ukraine’s leader accuses him of living in ‘disinformation space’

(CNN) — US President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 19.

Zelensky says Trump lives in ‘disinformation space’

(CNN) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Donald Trump of repeating disinformation, a day after the US president falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Zelensky’s...

President Donald Trump said negotiations to end the Ukraine war will start immediately after holding a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 12.

Trump, after speaking with Putin, says negotiations to end Ukraine war will start ‘immediately’

Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN February 12, 2025

(CNN) —President Donald Trump said negotiations to end the Ukraine war will start immediately after holding a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday morning. The call, which is the...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meets with British Defence Secretary John Healey, on the eve of a NATO defence ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 12.

Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine and says Europe must be responsible for country’s security

Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN February 12, 2025

Brussels (CNN) — US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the war between Ukraine and Russia “must end,” that Kyiv joining NATO is unrealistic and that the US will no longer...

Kolya Koretskyy and his family stand outside their house in Kent, where they were relocated from Ukraine.

Kolya Project helps war refugees find a home in Kent

Lindsay Collier, Reporter September 8, 2024

The founders of the Kolya Project have helped relocate war refugees from Ukraine to Kent since the war between Russia and Ukraine escalated in 2022.  Becky Gibson met Kolya Koretskyy when her and her...

Russian missile strikes near Zelensky and Greek PM’s convoy in Odesa

CNN -- A Russian missile that killed five people in the Black Sea port city of Odesa on Wednesday landed just 500 meters from a convoy carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

The university's library sits near Risman Plaza on campus.

University reflects on Russo-Ukrainian war with ‘Stand With Ukraine Through Film: The Guide’ event

Elaina Matricardi, Reporter February 24, 2024

With the second-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaching, several Kent State departments highlighted the history of the invasion through a screening of Ukrainian-made film “The...

Russia and Ukraine exchange air attacks after sinking of Russian warship

Rob Picheta, Olga Voitovych, Seb Shukla, CNN February 15, 2024

CNN -- Russia and Ukraine exchanged air attacks on Thursday, with Moscow targeting cities across Ukraine and Kyiv striking the Russian border city of Belgorod, one day after Kyiv...

Ukrainian refugee finds new beginning following move to United States

Luke Gehm, Reporter February 1, 2024

Editor’s note: Inaccurate information on where Brock found aid following her move to the United States was removed from the article. In February 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Olga...

President Joe Biden, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Getty Images/FILE)

Ukraine’s US lifeline is hanging by a thinning thread

Stephen Collinson, CNN December 5, 2023

CNN -- Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grim bet that America and the West will tire of his brutal war before he does is looking better by the day. Nearly seven weeks after President Joe Biden asked...

Intercepted calls from the front lines in Ukraine show a growing number of Russian soldiers want out

Erika Kinetz, AP News November 27, 2023

In audio intercepts from the front lines in Ukraine, Russian soldiers speak in shorthand of 200s to mean dead, 300s to mean wounded. The urge to flee has become common enough that they also talk of 500s...