Air raid sirens continued to wail across Ukraine and in capital Kyiv on Oct. 18 as Loud blasts were also reported in several Ukrainian cities, along with major power disruptions in the Mykolaiv region. Officials in Kyiv said at least two energy facilities in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro had been badly damaged, presumably…

As Russia celebrates the imminent incorporation of four Ukrainian regions into its territory, Kyiv’s western supporters have vowed to impose new sanctions on Moscow in response to referendums they say are illegitimate. In five days of polling that ended on Sept. 27, the vast majority of voters in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and…

Referendums in four Russia-held regions of Ukraine wrapped up on Sept. 27 amid warnings from Kyiv that Ukrainian citizens who took part in organizing the polling could expect to face jail time. “We are talking about hundreds of collaborators,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak said. “They will be prosecuted for treason.” The vote, which began…