US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are heading to Kyiv on Sunday after spending three hours in closed-door talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at his official Moscow residence on Saturday. A meeting whose outcome both sides describe in broadly positive but carefully guarded terms. The White House said the envoys had “discussed substantive…
Two of Donald Trump’s most senior envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, have arrived in Moscow for weekend talks aimed at breaking the deadlock in efforts to end the war in Ukraine. The envoy also has plans to travel to Kyiv on Sunday for a separate round of discussions with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump told…
At least twelve people have been killed and seventeen others injured, including two children, after Russian missile and drone strikes hit Kyiv and surrounding areas overnight, Ukrainian officials confirmed on Tuesday. Six of the eight fatalities in Kyiv were employees of the state rail company Ukrzaliznytsia, killed when a railway depot was struck. Fires broke…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has vowed to maintain Britain’s support for Ukraine despite what he described as “outrageous threats” from Russia during his first official visit to the country as prime minister. Burnham met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and chaired his first meeting of the “coalition of the willing”. An alliance established by the…
Russia’s second-largest online retailer, Ozon, has reported fires and injuries at several of its logistics facilities following a wave of Ukrainian drone strikes across the country’s south. The company said facilities in Krasnodar, Dagestan, Stavropol and Adygea were affected by the overnight attacks. Workers were evacuated from some of the sites as emergency crews responded…
At least eight people have been killed and 33 others injured after a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes hit Kyiv and surrounding areas, Ukrainian authorities say. The overnight attack damaged apartment buildings, warehouses, a children’s hospital and a school, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. Emergency crews were also searching through the rubble…
Russia has issued a direct warning to the United Kingdom after confirmation that British-made drones were used in strikes targeting military and industrial sites inside Russia. This includes oil refineries and Wildberries logistics warehouses. The Russian Embassy in London published a statement accusing the UK of “deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis,”…
Air raid sirens sounded four times in Kyiv overnight. At least three people have been killed and more than ten others injured across Ukraine in the latest wave of Russian aerial attacks, Ukrainian officials confirmed on Sunday. In Zaporizhzhia, two people died when a Russian guided aerial bomb struck and destroyed a residential house. Regional…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of using North Korean ballistic missiles in overnight strikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia. Also saying it marks the first time Moscow has openly relied on Pyongyang’s weaponry to sustain its attacks on Ukraine. At least six people were killed and nineteen others injured in the Zaporizhzhia strikes….
At least 13 people have been killed and 75 others injured after Ukrainian drones struck the city of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan republic overnight. An attack Russian officials are describing as one of the deadliest single attacks on Russian soil since the war began. One child is among the dead. A period of mourning has…
