8 h. ago ‘Putin wants us to panic’: Why Russia launched the largest aerial strike of the war so far

The Russian army launched a fresh drone assault on Kyiv on Sunday thought to be the largest of the war so far

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8 h. ago Royal Opera House accused of 'legitimising' the Russian war on Ukraine by casting Anna Netrebko

The Ukrainian ambassador to the UK said Anna Netrebko is ‘a cultural instrument legitimising killings in Ukraine’

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10 h. ago EU and US officials meet as Trump says he is ready to impose further sanctions on Russia

Europe and US consider further actions to weaken Russia after it launched its largest-ever air attack on Ukraine over the weekendThe EU’s most senior sanctions envoy is holding talks in Washington with US officials after Donald Trump said he was ready to take further action against Russia over the war in Ukraine.David O’Sullivan, the EU sanctions envoy, is meeting US counterparts on Monday, as Europe and the US look for tougher measures to weaken Vladimir Putin’s war machine after Russia launched its largest-ever air attack on Ukraine over the weekend. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago What could Trump’s ‘second phase’ of sanctions against Russia involve?

Trump on Sunday signalled he may finally escalate sanctions on Moscow or its oil buyers

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10 h. ago Ukraine shows diplomats damage after Russia's largest aerial attack since invasion

Senior Ukrainian officials have led 60 foreign diplomats on a tour of damaged government offices in the heart of Kyiv

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12 h. ago Moment Ukraine refugee is stabbed to death on train in random attack after fleeing war

Iryna Zarutska, 23, had fled Ukraine in 2022 after war broke out in Kyiv, but was brutally murdered in a random attack on a train as locals demand answers from authorities

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22 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Trump says ready for more Russia sanctions

US treasury secretary foreshadows oil tariffs in cooperation with Europe; Alaska meeting gave Putin the publicity he wanted, says Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,293Asked by a reporter at the White House on Sunday if he was ready to move to “the second phase” of sanctions targeting Russia, Donald Trump responded: “Yeah, I am.” The US president stopped short of saying he was committed to such a decision or what a second phase might entail. The White House did not immediately respond to an email on Sunday asking what steps Trump was contemplating. Trump said on Sunday night that “certain European leaders are coming over to our country on Monday or Tuesday individually” and he would also speak to Vladimir Putin soon.The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on Sunday that the US and the EU could put “secondary tariffs on the countries that buy Russian oil”, pushing the Russian economy to the brink of collapse and bringing Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. China is a major ...

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31 h. ago WW3 fears rise to new heights as China's hidden role in Ukraine war 'exposed'

The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has been grinding on for nearly four years, but a huge new revelation has been made which points to Chines involvement in fighting

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32 h. ago Russian drone attack kills four and hits government building in Kyiv

A mother and three-month-old child were among those killed

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33 h. ago Largest Russian air attack of war sets fire to Ukrainian cabinet building

Russia’s first strike on a key government building kills three, including a baby and an infantRussia has launched its largest ever air attack on Ukraine, hitting a key government building in Kyiv for the first time and leaving at least three people dead, including a baby and an infant, Ukrainian officials said.The bombardment of the capital with a large number of drones and missiles injured at least 18 people and set scores of buildings on fire. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Mass mortuaries, forensics and rare cooperation with Russia: The agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s war dead

Bryony Gooch speaks to a forensic specialist about the ongoing work to put names to bodies in Ukraine after Moscow agreed to return thousands of the fallen

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35 h. ago Putin's missiles HITS Zelensky government building for first time: Russia successfully strikes key offices of Ukrainian administration in boldest attack since war began in 2022

The dramatic attack on the Cabinet of Ministers came as more than 800 drones and missiles were launched into Ukraine overnight in what has been branded an 'escalation of terror'.

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38 h. ago Baby and woman killed during Putin's record 800 drone attack on Ukraine as NATO scramble warplanes

The 32-year-old woman and her two-month-old son died in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital, with dozens of people injured in the Russian terror.

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39 h. ago Putin hits main Ukraine government building in deadly attacks with baby killed

Russia has launched its largest aerial attack on the country since the war began after hitting Ukraine with 805 drones and decoys, according to Ukrainian officials

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42 h. ago Largest Russian air attack of war sets fire to Ukrainian cabinet building and kills three including child

Unclear if fire at main Ukrainian government building the result of a direct strike or falling debrisRussia’s largest overnight air attack of the war has set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.Russia hit Ukraine’s capital with drones and missiles, injuring 18 people and setting scores of buildings on fire, including . Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says nearly 60% of weapons are domestically made as role of drones increases

President says production of arms has already exceeded target set in July; one person killed in Russian strike. What we know on day 1,292Nearly 60% of weapons used by Ukraine’s military are domestically produced, Volodymyr Zelenskyy says, already exceeding a target he set two months ago. “During this war, Ukraine has reached the point where nearly 60% of the weapons we have, the weapons in the hands of our soldiers, are Ukrainian-made,” the Ukrainian president said on Saturday in his nightly video address. “And these are powerful weapons, with many advanced features.” In his address, he also pointed to a joint project to undertake weapons production in Denmark. The president in July called on his reshuffled government to take measures to boost production of weapons made in Ukraine to more than 50%, higher than at any other time since independence from Soviet rule in 1991.Ukraine has focused on drone production and on providing air defences to counter Russia’s intensive drone and mis...

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55 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: We're not being told the truth about Ukraine. This was the moment the mask slipped and I saw why the elites want to wage this hideous war for ever...

It looks as if the war in Ukraine will go on for many years to come. And this will not be an accident. It may even be what the West secretly wants...

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3 d. ago Foreign troops deployed to Ukraine before any peace deal would be ‘legitimate targets’, Putin warns

Putin's comments came hours after European leaders pledged their commitment to a potential peacekeeping force

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3 d. ago Russia boasts it is ‘world leader’ in prosthetic limbs due to war in Ukraine

Deputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyov, a relative of Vladimir Putin, said troops returning from the battlefield had helped push Russia’s prosthetic developments

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3 d. ago Volodymyr Zelensky reveals new Donald Trump 'force' threat made over the phone

Zelensky has repeated his stance that the war will not end until Ukraine is completely free of Russian forces

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