Russian drone barrage kills four in east Ukraine
A Russian drone attack that targeted cities across Ukraine killed at least four people in a Soviet-era residential block in the eastern city of Sumy, the interior ministry said.
A Russian drone attack that targeted cities across Ukraine killed at least four people in a Soviet-era residential block in the eastern city of Sumy, the interior ministry said.
Russia’s army said on Tuesday its forces had captured a large village in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, the latest territorial gain for Moscow’s advancing troops as Kyiv warned of intense fighting in two other key frontline towns.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited Kyiv on Saturday for talks with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky amid growing tensions in Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist enclave of Moldova that neighbours Ukraine.
The Kremlin said on Thursday it saw nothing new in US president Donald Trump’s calls for Russia to end its military offensive in Ukraine, and that Moscow was ready for ‘mutually respectful’ dialogue with him...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said any peace deal agreed with Russia would require at least 200,000 European peacekeepers to oversee it, according to comments published on Wednesday...
Russia said on Tuesday that it had downed 55 Ukrainian drones overnight, adding that falling debris had sparked a new fire at an oil depot in a border region.
Three high-ranking Ukrainian military officials have been detained for alleged ‘inaction’ that allowed Russian forces to seize parts of the eastern Kharkiv region last year, prosecutors said on Monday.
A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital killed three people on Saturday, Ukrainian leaders said, in branding it a ‘heinous’ attack, while Moscow called it ‘retaliation’ for bombardments on its territory.
British prime minister Keir Starmer signed a ‘landmark’ 100-year partnership agreement with Ukraine during an unannounced visit to the war-torn country on Thursday, seeking to shore up support for Kyiv before Donald Trump returns to the White House....
Russia and Ukraine have each released 25 captured prisoners of war in the first exchange of 2025, both countries said on Wednesday...
Ukraine carried out its largest aerial attack on Russian territory of the nearly three-year war overnight, Kyiv said on Tuesday, hitting factories and energy hubs hundreds of miles from the frontline....
Russia said on Monday it captured an east Ukrainian mining village south of Pokrovsk, home to one of Ukraine’s most important coal mines and where Russian troops have reached the outskirts.
South Korea’s intelligence service on Sunday backed up Ukraine’s account of having captured two wounded North Korean soldiers in Russia, after Kyiv said they were being questioned.
WHILE the west subsidises carnage in Gaza and Ukraine, the east does the opposite. For instance, one potential far east flashpoint has long been the India/China border, but that’s changing — for the better, due to high-level meetings in December between political bigwigs from both countries. It was the first such confab since 2019, RT reported December...
The United States and the United Kingdom on Friday announced sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, including oil giant Gazprom Neft, just days before outgoing US president Joe Biden’s leaving office...
Ukrainian police said on Friday they were conducting hundreds of raids nationwide to shut down routes used by military-aged men to flee the country to avoid military service.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has seen his approval ratings further eroded at a critical time for the Ukrainian army and as uncertainty grows over future international military aid, new polling showed on Tuesday...
Russia said on Monday its forces had captured the ‘important logistics hub’ of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine in what would be a key advance after months of steady gains in the area...
Russia vowed on Saturday to retaliate after it accused Ukraine of firing US-supplied ATACMS missiles at the border region of Belgorod the previous day.
A Russian bomb attack on Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region has killed one person, local authorities said on Thursday...
Russia launched an aerial attack on the centre of Kyiv in the first hours of 2025, killing one person, Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday...
Russia’s aviation chief said Friday that an Azerbaijani Airlines plane that eventually crashed in Kazakhstan tried to land in the Chechen city of Grozny as it was being attacked by Ukrainian drones.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday denounced an ‘inhumane’ attack from Russia, which launched over 170 missiles and drones on his war-torn country’s power grid on Christmas Day, killing an energy worker.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday accused Slovak prime minister Robert Fico of wanting to ‘help’ president Vladimir Putin by continuing to import Russian gas.
More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Monday.
Russia said on Sunday it had captured two more villages in east Ukraine, the latest territorial gains for Moscow’s advancing army.
Kyiv on Saturday staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000 kilometres from the frontier, as Moscow’s troops captured a new frontline village in eastern Ukraine.
Russian missiles targeted the Ukrainian capital Kyiv at sunrise on Friday, killing at least one person and cutting heating to hundreds of residential buildings in cold temperatures.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was to meet NATO chief Mark Rutte and key European leaders in Brussels Wednesday to discuss ‘next steps’ on Russia’s war as Donald Trump prepares to take office as US president...
The head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division was killed on Tuesday in a brazen attack in Moscow claimed by Kyiv — the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin’s campaign in Ukraine drags on...