The president of Ukraine is facing a confluence of crises testing his ability to lead an increasingly weary nation nearly four years into a devastating full-scale invasion by Russia

As Ukrainian troops struggle to defend a key city in Ukraine's east, a widening energy corruption scandal in Kyiv implicates a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and forces resignations in his cabinet.

Story and photos by Hayden Yu Andersen Reporting for West Seattle Blog In 2022, when the conflict between Ukraine and Russia finally boiled over into an invasion, longtime West Seattle resident and entrepreneur Peter Gelpi traded the comfort of an office for a bomb shelter on the front lines of the largest war in Europe since World War II.

Russia fired a large-scale barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine early Friday, damaging apartment buildings in Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv. It comes as Russia has been making incremental gains on the ground in recent weeks,

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said that an energy corruption scandal in Ukraine is "extremely unfortunate" and it is important that Kyiv takes it seriously. — Ukrinform.

An assessment has revealed what is going well and which bits need work regarding the food safety systems of five potential European Union countries.