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October 7, 2026 1:47 PM

Russia hits Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing at least eight

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and damaging residential buildings, industrial facilities and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said. Two people were killed in the capital Kyiv, four in the northern city of Pryluki and two in the central Poltava region, authorities said. "Ukraine has once again been hit by Russian missiles throughout the night," Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's parliamentary commissioner for human rights, said...

October 1, 2026 10:40 AM

Russia attacks Ukrainian energy grid, forcing power cuts as winter looms

Russia unleashed a widely anticipated air campaign against Ukraine's energy grid on Wednesday, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv ‌and other regions in the heaviest combined attack on energy sites in months. The strikes, in which Ukrainian officials said seven people were killed, followed days of intensifying drone barrages primarily on the capital, a prelude to what many Ukrainians expect to be a winter of attacks intended to plunge cities into cold and darkness when Ukr...

September 23, 2026 7:07 PM

Russia pounds Kyiv with drone strikes after Zelenskiy-Trump talks

Russia pounded Kyiv with drone strikes on Wednesday, hitting railway infrastructure, warehouses and fuel stations, just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met US President Donald Trump to discuss peace efforts. At least two people were killed and more than 30 were injured in the attack, which lasted for hours from the morning into early afternoon, officialssaid, in one of the heaviest strikes since Russia began hitting Kyiv and nearby areas with faster and high-flying jet d...

September 1, 2026 8:44 AM

Four killed, over a dozen injured as Russia strikes Kyiv region for sixth successive day

Four people were killed and over a dozen injured in Russian air attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region on Tuesday, local authorities said, in what was the sixth day in a row of strikes on the area. Three people were killed and another five wounded, and a fire broke out in a non-residential area of the capital, city authorities said on the Telegram messaging app. In Boryspil in the Kyiv region, one person was killed and another nine, including a child, were injured ...

August 24, 2026 8:03 PM

Zelenskiy urges allies to cover 27 bln euro gap for defence needs

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Ukraine’s allies to deliver an air defence package ahead of the winter, with Russia expected to renew its strikes on his country’s energy infrastructure. Addressing a Coalition of the Willing meeting in Kyiv, Zelenskiy also asked Ukraine’s partners to help cover a funding gap of 27 billion euros for its defence sector needs in 2026. In this context, the president reminded his allies of the Russian assets held frozen across European jurisdictions. -Reu...

August 13, 2026 10:36 AM

Ukraine pounds naval base, grain terminals at Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk

A major Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk hit warships at a naval base and forced two major grain terminals to halt operations on Wednesday, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials as well as grain industry sources. The Ukrainian attacks killed at least two people, including an 8-year-old child, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. Describing the attack as having “strategic significance”, Ukraine’s SBU security service said Kyiv’s for...

February 27, 2026 3:36 PM

IMF approves $8.1 billion loan for Ukraine, with $1.5 billion to go immediately

The International Monetary Fund's executive board on Thursday approved an $8.1 billion, four-year loan for Ukraine, with $1.5 billion to be disbursed immediately to help keep the government running as its war against Russia's invasion drags into a fifth year. The IMF said the new Extended Fund Facility arrangement for Ukraine would help anchor a $136.5 billion international support package for the war-torn country, which this week marked the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. ...

February 18, 2026 10:38 AM

Ukraine, Russia hold peace talks in Geneva as Trump puts pressure on Kyiv

Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia concluded the first of two days of U.S.-mediated peace talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with U.S. President Donald Trump pressing Kyiv to act fast to reach a deal to end the four-year conflict. Ahead of the negotiations in Switzerland, Russia carried out airstrikes overnight across swathes of Ukraine, severelydamaging the power network in the southern port city of Odesa. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the attacks left tens of thou...

December 2, 2025 2:14 PM

Europeans rally round Ukraine as Trump envoy heads to Moscow

European leaders rallied to show support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday after U.S.-Ukrainian talks to revise a peace proposal that initially favoured Russia, while the U.S. envoy headed to Moscow to brief the Kremlin. Zelenskiy was warmly received by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and the two joined a call with about a dozen other European leaders including those of Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland and the European Union. Zelenskiy told a joint press conferenc...

November 21, 2025 3:42 PM

Kyiv says work continues on technical level between teams to study US proposals

Ukraine called on its partners to respect its position as work continues on the technical level to study a U.S.-backed plan to end the war, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. Rustem Umerov, the secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said that Ukraine's unchanging principles were "sovereignty, the safety of people, and a just peace". "We are carefully studying all of our partners' proposals and expect the same proper attitude towards Ukraine's position," Umerov said in...