Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have offered "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.
The Russian military has since launched a full-scale ground offensive in eastern Ukraine's disputed Donbas region, capturing the strategic port city of Mariupol and securing a coastal corridor to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Here's how the news is developing. All times Eastern.
Jul 17, 2022, 6:20 PM EDT
Number of Ukrainian public officials accused of treason, collaborating with Russia: Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, in Crimea, who was dismissed in the beginning of the Russian invasion, has been notified he is being charged with treason.
"Everyone who together with him was part of a criminal group that worked in the interests of the Russian Federation will also be held accountable," Zelenskyy said during his evening address Sunday. "It is about the transfer of secret information to the enemy and other facts of cooperation with the Russian special services."
A number of Ukrainian public officials have been notified they will be charged for treason and for collaborating with Russia.
-ABC News' Christine Theodorou
Jul 17, 2022, 2:20 PM EDT
'Evil cannot win': Priest breaks down at funeral for 4-year-old Ukrainian girl
A funeral service was held Sunday for a 4-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was among two dozen Ukrainian civilian's killed last week in a Russian missile attack in the west-central Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia.
Liza Dmitrieva, a 4-year-old who died in a Russian missile strike, is pictured in an undated photo in Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
Logoclub Children's Center via Reuters
During the open-casket funeral for Liza Dmytrieva, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest broke down in tears as he told the little girl's father and other relatives, "evil cannot win," according to The Associated Press.
Liza was pushing a stroller in a park as she and her mother were headed to a speech therapist appointment when the attack unfolded Thursday afternoon in Vinnytsia, a city close to the front lines in west-central Ukraine, officials said.
The girl and 23 others Ukrainian civilians were killed, including two boys ages 7 and 8. At least 200 other civilians, including Liza's mother, were injured, officials said.
People packed the 18th-century Transfiguration Cathedral in Vinnytsia for the girl's funeral. The child's mother, Iryna Dmytrieva, 33, remains in grave condition in a hospital and her family said they have not been able to tell her about the death of her daughter, according to The Associated Press.
"Look, my flower! Look how many people came to you," Liza’s grandmother, Larysa Dmytryshyna, said, as she caressed the child lying in an open casket filled with teddy bears and flowers.
Orthodox priest Vitalii Holoskevych gave the eulogy at Liza's funeral struggling through tears.
“I didn’t know Liza, but no person can go through this with calm because every burial is grief for each of us," Holoskevych said. "We are losing our brothers and sisters."
Jul 15, 2022, 8:26 PM EDT
At least 3 killed in strike on Dnipro
At least three people were killed and another 15 injured in a missile strike on Dnipro Friday, officials said.
There was extensive destruction in the city after the strike, Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram.
Video circulating online shows multiple strikes in Dnipro, Ukraine, where Ukrainian officials have confirmed strikes on Friday.
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Ukraine's Air Force Command said the attack on Dnipro was launched from the Caspian Sea area by Russian strategic bombers. Four cruise missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, though several others hit the city, it said.
-ABC News' Fidel Pavlenko
Jul 15, 2022, 3:45 PM EDT
Vinnytsia likely hit by submarine-launched missiles: Pentagon
The Pentagon has no reason to doubt reports that submarine-launched missiles were used in Russia's missile attack on Vinnytsia on Thursday, a senior U.S. military official told reporters.
The attack killed 23 people, including three children.
A medical specialist attends to a patient who was injured during a Russian missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, July 15, 2022.
Stringer/Reuters
An aerial view shows a building of the House of Officers heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, July 15, 2022.
Stringer via Reuters
The Pentagon has no sign of a military target in the area that Russia could have been aiming for, the official said.
"That looked like an apartment building," the official said, adding there's "no indication" of a military target "anywhere near that."
The official estimated, based on open-source reporting, that 100 to 150 civilians have been killed by Russian strikes over the last two weeks.
