•Firefighters are seen next to a burnt-out car following mass Russian drone and missile strikes Ukrainian city of Lviv today Russia fired more than 620 drones and long-range missiles overnight killing four people, Ukraine said Saturday, calling for fresh sanctions on Moscow to halt its record barrages. Kyiv and Moscow have stepped up aerial s...
•Timur Ivanov A Russian court jailed ex-deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov for 13 years on corruption charges today, part of a sweeping crackdown on military leaders during Moscow’s Ukraine offensive. Russia has prosecuted more than a dozen military officials and defence sector workers since last year, targeting senior figures accused of ste...
No fewer than 15 people were killed and 75 others injured in Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine overnight today, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a statement. The capital Kiev was hit hardest in the attack, where a ballistic missile struck a nine-story apartment building, killing 14 people and injuring 60 others, [&h...
•A multistory residential building damaged following a drone strike Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and port city of Odesa early today, killing three people and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said. Moscow has escalated its bombardments of Ukraine and Kyiv has retaliated with s...
•Prisoners of war, Zhang Renbo and Wang Guangjun Ukraine yesterday held a press conference at which Chinese prisoners of war under armed guard told journalists they hoped to be swapped and warned other Chinese nationals not to go to fight. The event came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of dragging Beijing into its [...
•Rescuers of the State Emergency Service work to put out fire in a private house after a drone strike A Russian missile strike on a hotel in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown overnight killed three people and injured 31 with about half of them in serious condition, authorities said today. Moscow has kept up its […]
A Russian court has sentenced a man to 13 years in jail on treason charges for reaching out to a recruiter for the Ukrainian army, the FSB security service said today. Moscow has jailed dozens of Russians for allegedly collaborating with or supporting Kyiv’s military since Russia launched its full-scale military offensive in February 2022, [&h...
•Russian oil tanker Finnish authorities seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea yesterday, suspecting it of causing an outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, as well as damaging or breaking four internet lines. The ship, registered in the Cook Islands and identified by authorities as [&hell...
•Jailed Daniel Mukhametov An engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for high treason, after being found guilty of giving military information to Ukraine, a court said today. The regional court in Sverdlovsk said Daniel Mukhametov, 32, was working as an engineer at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil in [&he...
A sanctioned central banker is to represent Russia on the board of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund, the current holder of the post said yesterday. Ksenia Yudaeva is the former first deputy governor at Russia’s central bank, and a current adviser to its governor Elvira Nabiullina, reports AFP. “Yes, I confirm. From November 1 K...

