Explosions rang out in Kyiv Tuesday as Ukraine's air force battled a drone attack on the capital, officials said, with air alerts active in multiple other cities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his forces would intensify strikes on military targets in Ukraine, after an unprecedented Ukrainian attack over the weekend on the Russian city of Belgorod.

Russia launched a massive air attack over Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding scores across the country in the fiercest assault since the first days of the war nearly two years ago. Schools, a maternity hospital, shopping arcades and blocks of flats were among the buildings hit in the barrage, said…

A Russian missile passed through Polish airspace Friday, entering from and then back into Ukraine, the Polish army said, as Russia pummelled Ukraine with one of the biggest air attacks of the war.

Ukraine said Monday it had shot down 28 Russian drones out of 31 launched from the annexed Crimea peninsula, as the country celebrates Christmas on December 25 for the first time in a snub to Moscow.

Ukraine said Friday that it had downed 24 out of 28 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia overnight as two Kyiv residents were reported injured by a drone attack on a residential building.

Russia on Thursday handed long jail sentences to a Ukrainian man and another individual for financing an ultranationalist group in Ukraine by selling illegal drugs. Thousands of Russians have been detained for protesting Russia's large-scale military campaign against Ukraine and authorities have handed out long jail terms to people accused of providing material support to…

A shipment of 25,000 tonnes of Ukrainian grain is now being prepared for transit from the Turkish port of Samsun to Nigeria as part of the Grain from Ukraine program.

France and the UK will support Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion "for as long as it takes", British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Tuesday, adding it was "essential" that President Vladimir Putin was defeated. His comments came as concern grows in Kyiv that Western patience and unity could be cracking in the…

*Ukraine Authority Says Over 20,000 Civilians Buried, 20,000 Children Abducted *Says About $40b Required To Rebuild Infrastructure *Seeks Greater Cooperation With Africa On Grain Shipment *Urges The World To Further Prevail On Russia To Relinquish Occupied Territories It is already 22 months since Russia declared a full-scale war against Ukraine, yet the country is still…

Russia congratulated Hungary on Friday for blocking EU financial aid to Ukraine at a Brussels summit that nonetheless saw EU leaders overcome Budapest's opposition to agree Kyiv starting membership talks.

Russia put the head of Ukraine's military intelligence (GUR), Kyrylo Budanov, on its "wanted" list on Thursday, accusing the agency he heads of attacks inside its own territory. Russia added 37-year-old Budanov to the interior ministry list of people wanted for criminal offences. Moscow accuses Budanov, who has led the GUR since 2020, of having…