•People lay flower at portraits of their relatives, fallen Azov Brigade fighters, at St Sophia Square in the center of Kyiv Ukraine has received the bodies of 252 people in an exchange of war dead with Russia, Ukrainian authorities said today. Russia received 23 bodies in return, Russian lawmaker Shamsail Saraliev was quoted as saying [&helli...
•Smoke rises over the capital city of Kyiv following a Russian air attack on Ukraine, today Russia resumed strikes on Kyiv after the expiration of a three-day halt in attacks for a visit to the Ukrainian capital by US envoys, Ukraine’s emergency service said late yesterday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the three-day halt in [&hell...
•Trump, Putin and Zelensky US President Donald Trump said yesterday he is sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv with a plan to end more than four years of war in Ukraine. The move marks Washington’s latest bid to break a diplomatic stalemate in Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II, […]
•Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fire in a train’s locomotive following an air attack at in the Odesa region. Russia and Ukraine swapped bodies of killed soldiers today, in one of the few areas of cooperation between the warring sides. “The bodies of 261 deceased persons have been returned to Ukraine, which, according to […]...
•Smoke rises above residential buildings following a Russian air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine Ukrainian attacks on Russia killed at least nine people yesterday, while Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least five, according to officials in both countries. The exchange of strikes comes amid signs both Moscow and Kyiv are increasing the scale and i...
•Late Nnani Adaobi Marian and Russian bomber jets A Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has claimed the life of 23-year-old Nigerian medical graduate, Nnani Adaobi Marian, just days before she was due to graduate from Kharkiv National Medical University. Marian, who had completed her medical studies at the university, suffered s...
•Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV today hailed a deal on ending the Middle East war announced between Iran and the United States as the result of “encouraging work in dialogue and negotiation”. The United States and Iran agreed this week to a deal to end the conflict, and Leo expressed his “gratitude” to those […]
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko (L) visiting the burnt Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, yesterday An overnight Russian barrage of missiles killed at least 11 people across Ukraine and sparked a fire at one of the most important Orthodox monasterie...
•UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said today his government was in talks to take part in a giant EU loan for Ukraine so that some of the money could be spent on British weapons. The European Union last month approved a 90-billion-euro ($118 billion) loan […]
•Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in remarks made public today said his country could help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, whose closure by Iran has rattled the global economy. Iran has placed a stranglehold on the key shipping lane — threatening fuel supplies and roiling energy markets — in retaliati...

