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In his latest video address Tuesday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 7,000 people had escaped the besieged port city of Mariupol in the last 24 hours, but that nearly 100,000 remained trapped in “inhumane conditions” without food, water or medication as Russia’s bombardment continued. Read FRANCE 24’s coverage…

Putin is shifting his tactics, and maybe his end-game, analysts say.

How the country has transformed from a Russian client state to a would-be EU nation where liberals and nationalists have found common cause

Ukrainian writer-director Maryna Er Gorbach and film critic Lisa Nesselson join Eve Jackson in the studio to discuss a timely tale that's all too real about a pregnant woman refusing to leave her home on the Ukraine-Russia border when faced with war. Er Gorbach's award-winning feature "Klondike" shows the toll…

As the Russian invasion unfolds, a deep vein of Ukrainian nationalism – already irritated by the annexation of Crimea and a Russian-backed insurgency in the Donbas region – has been unleashed.

The Ukrainian government has called for volunteers to join its army. Will they make a difference?

Nato invasion, genocide and drug-addled neo-Nazi’s: we assess whether any of Russia’s claims are valid

Is the de facto states model followed for Abkhazia, Transnistria and South Ossetia a possible way out for the Russia-Ukraine conflict?

Ukraine's former finance minister has told FRANCE 24 that any company doing business with Russia is indirectly financing the war in Ukraine. Natalie Jaresko was in office from 2014 to 2016, when Russia annexed Crimea and conflict was raging in the eastern Donbas region. She described the current situation facing…

In 2014, Ukraine’s military was called “decrepit” by one national security analyst, and its navy was in “a sorry state.” Ukrainian General Victor Muzhenko, a former top commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, went as far to say that the military was “an army literally in ruins.”

Heading into battle in Ukraine, Russian forces mark their equipment with a single letter signifying their objective. There have been different interpretations of the letter “Z” being used on Russian vehicles – one is that it represents the first letter of “Za pobedy”, which means “For victory” in Russian. But…