As more states recognise Palestine, the Middle East faces dystopian and utopian possibilities
The ultimate outcome hangs on the staunchly pro-Israel US president Donald Trump
Ukraine has traded its natural resources for protection from the US. Will it pay off?
Critics in the West see the deal as exploitative, extortionate and neo-colonial, a view Ukraine rejects
The Sartre and de Beauvoir of Ukraine: how two literary academics became wartime resistance leaders
Husband-and-wife team combine teaching literature with battling cultural extinction and military invasion
Gena Heraty’s selflessness gives us hope in a dark time
Lay missionary, who was freed last week after being kidnapped in Haiti, is a shining light in a barbarous world
Could this man be Ukraine’s next president?
They once worked together to ensure the survival of Ukraine, but Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi may be the only person capable of winning an election against Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Ukrainian family in Dublin: ‘I will take my kids back only when it is safe’
Hanna, Katya and Ivan, living in a small Howth hotel room, are separated from dad and husband Eduard, in Ukrainian city Sumy
A Ukrainian minister speaks: ‘Putin is lying when he says he is very successful in advancing on the front’
Kyiv’s deputy foreign minister, Sergiy Kyslytsya, on Moscow’s deceit, progress on peace and why Ireland and Ukraine have a similar history
‘The Russians are 40km away. When they get to within 22km, we’ll leave’
Try as locals might to live normally, the march of Putin’s army fuels anxiety and despair
Donald Trump does not ‘have capacity to understand’ Ukrainian issues, FG TD says on Kyiv visit
Barry Ward calls for greater European support for Ukraine while attending events for country’s Independence Day in Kyiv
Hellish Hornets: ‘We are doing everything to ensure you see war only on your TV screens’
Ukraine’s drone reconnaissance platoon, a unit of the 54th Mechanised Brigade, is on the frontline just 8km from the Russians
‘Bravery lessons’ and torture chambers: life for young Ukrainians under Russian rule
Two youths speak about fleeing occupied territories where tight surveillance, fear of kidnapping and assault are commonplace
A couple’s hope for Ukraine’s future: ‘We live in the real world; we don’t avoid reality’
‘Sima’ Borovska and Ruslan Borovskiy have known loss, but their story is one of resilience, ingenuity and courage
A drone-maker in Lviv: Stopping Russians from killing Ukrainians is ‘an act of love’
Injury disqualified Ruslan Borovskiy from military service. Then he had an inspiration
‘The uncertainty is terrible’: Ukrainians fear what peace talks may bring
There is endless speculation in Kyiv on what could be gained or lost in the event of a peace settlement with Russia
‘I have no expectations’: Ukrainian scepticism grows amid push for peace
At a hospital in Lviv, the mental toll of war weighs heavily as doubts grow over prospects of a deal