Russia-Ukraine war

US special representatives Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss possible ways to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, in their first trip to Kyiv since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. The discussions on Sunday followed a meeting the two envoys held with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow a day earlier. Recommended Stories • list 1 of 3How important are the Yemeni government’s recent military advances against the

Russian forces have struck the city of Kamianske in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, killing five people and wounding another five, regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. The attack on Saturday took place as US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow for discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two are expected to travel to Kyiv on Sunday carrying a proposal intended to help bring the war to an end. Recommended Stories • list 1 of 4Russian

A fire erupted at the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region after a drone attack, according to local officials. In a separate incident, two workers at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant were injured in another Ukrainian drone strike. At least two people were killed and two more wounded by falling drone wreckage near Afipsky railway station, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Tuesday. Management at the nuclear facility said the drone struck close to

Overnight Russian strikes killed six people in southeastern Ukraine and damaged a children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, local authorities said. Officials said the early Tuesday assault involved long-range missiles and formed part of a broader Russian effort to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defences while Kyiv struggles with a shortage of Patriot interceptors. Ivan Fedorov, head of the military administration in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, described the attack as “massive”, saying Russia

NATO fighter jets were dispatched after a Russian missile briefly entered Polish airspace before crashing. The projectile crossed into Poland early on Thursday during a large-scale overnight assault by Russia on Ukraine involving ballistic missiles and drones. The attack killed at least eight civilians, including children, and left more than 50 others injured. Fears are growing that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine could increasingly draw in neighbouring NATO members. Poland is among

Kyiv, Ukraine – On May 22, Ukraine’s president, prime minister, parliament speaker, senior ministers and top military commanders stood in silence at a military cemetery outside Kyiv as soldiers carried the coffins of Andriy Melnyk and his wife, Sofiya, past the assembled officials. The ceremony, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, was intended to honour “Ukrainian heroes.” Melnyk had been a leading figure in the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a movement that sought an independent Ukrainian

A Ukrainian drone strike on a maritime terminal in southern Russia has left one person dead, Russian officials have said, marking another incident in a series of attacks targeting key infrastructure. According to Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, falling drone fragments ignited a fire at part of the facility in the Temryuk district on Saturday. While the governor did not provide extensive details, Russian media outlets reported that damage occurred at a Black Sea

Ukrainian authorities report that Russian strikes across several regions have resulted in at least five deaths and damage to a vessel in the port of Odesa. At the same time, Moscow stated that its air defences intercepted more than 200 Ukrainian drones. According to Sumy regional governor Oleh Hryhorov, a Russian drone attack on Saturday killed two men in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region. The strike targeted civilians in the border town of Bilopil, located near Russia. In the central

Estonia and Latvia have each reported that drones crossed into their airspace from neighbouring Russia, heightening fears of regional spillover from the ongoing war in Ukraine. Estonia’s Internal Security Service announced on Wednesday that a drone entering from Russian territory hit the chimney of a power plant in the northeastern village of Auvere. Authorities confirmed that no injuries were reported as a result of the incident. Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna stated that the drone

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Ukraine’s partners to maintain strong economic pressure on Russia as Ukrainian and United States officials enter a second day of discussions aimed at ending the war that has lasted more than four years. Russian delegates did not attend the meeting, which began on Saturday in Florida. They had initially been expected to participate in talks that were previously scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates before regional tensions linked to the

Here is the latest update for Monday, February 9: Fighting • Authorities reported that a person was killed following a series of heavy airstrikes by Russian forces on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. • Overnight missile strikes also targeted facilities operated by Ukraine's primary oil and gas company, Naftogaz, in the eastern Poltava region. This marked the 19th such assault on the company's infrastructure by Russian forces, though the extent of the impact was not detailed. •

Here is the latest update as of Thursday, January 29: Fighting • The number of fatalities from a Russian strike on a passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region has increased to six, according to the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, after more remains were recovered from the crash site. • A Russian missile assault on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region injured a minimum of six people, reported regional leader Ivan Fedorov. • In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian forces launched attacks in several

Kyiv, Ukraine – In a dimly-lit passageway to a Kyiv metro station, 34-year-old florist Snizhana Petradkhina pulled her hands from her thick winter coat, revealing two small hand warmers. “These are keeping me going today,” she shared, standing beneath a flickering lamp at her flower stall. “I’m so tired of the cold, and the darkness. But more than anything, everyone in Ukraine is tired of this war. We just want peaceful nights — no drones, no bombs.” This winter, constant strikes on Ukraine’s

Here is the situation as of Thursday, January 8: Fighting • A Russian strike targeting the Odesa region of Ukraine resulted in one fatality and left five individuals wounded, according to the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba. He noted that the attack caused damage to port infrastructure, administrative buildings, and oil storage units. • In the city of Kryvyi Rih, located in Ukraine’s Dnipro region, eight people sustained injuries due to a Russian assault. Two of those injured are

Here is the situation as of Saturday, November 1, 2025: Fighting • According to Vadym Filashkin, the head of Donetsk’s Regional Military Administration, eight people were killed and 18 injured by Russian attacks in the Donetsk area over the past 24 hours. • Local authorities reported that five individuals died and three more were hurt after two separate vehicles hit explosive devices in a wooded area in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region. Police are currently looking into the details of these

Here is the situation as of Friday, August 15: Fighting • Ukrainian drone strikes targeted two Russian cities, resulting in injuries to at least 16 individuals, according to local officials. • In Rostov-on-Don, a drone hit an apartment complex, wounding 13 people—two of them seriously. In Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border, three others were injured in a similar attack. • Ukrainian forces reported that one of their drone operations ignited large fires at a Russian oil refinery in the Volgograd

Here is the current situation as of Saturday, August 9: Fighting • A drone strike launched by Russia hit an oil storage facility in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region. The depot, reportedly owned by the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR, sustained damage, according to two industry insiders. One source mentioned that four people were injured during the incident. • Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who died while in Russian custody last year, was laid to rest in Kyiv. Her fellow

Kyiv, Ukraine – A Persian term now evokes dread among millions of Ukrainians. "Shahed" – sometimes rendered as Shaheed or Shahid and originally denoting “martyr” or “witness” in Islamic scripture – is now associated with the triangular, explosive-laden drones of Iranian origin that have become a grim feature of life in war-torn Ukraine. Recommended Stories Can Israel tolerate Iran without nuclear weapons? Likelihood of Iranian strike on US bases in the Gulf appears minimal US-Iran

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly open to a “lasting peace” agreement with Ukraine, according to United States special envoy Steve Witkoff. Witkoff, who represents President Donald Trump, shared the remarks during a TV interview on Monday evening, following what he described as “significant” discussions with Putin in Saint Petersburg the previous week. While optimism was expressed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cautioned that negotiating the details of any deal remains

Here’s an overview of the major developments from Sunday, March 23. Fighting • A large-scale drone offensive against Kyiv led to the deaths of at least three individuals, one of them a five-year-old child, and injured numerous others. According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, the assault caused fires in several high-rise residential buildings. Emergency crews responded across multiple neighborhoods to battle the resulting blazes. At least three individuals, including a young child, were