8 h. ago Ukraine drones fly 1,250 miles to punch holes in Putin's air defences and target oil sites deep inside Russia

Kyiv is launching air raids deep into Russia with a small number of drones seeking to find holes in Putin's air defences

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11 h. ago Ukraine reveals ‘sea baby’ drones that could change the war with Russia

The craft are operated remotely from a mobile control center inside a van

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27 h. ago Germany races to secure US sanctions exemption for Rosneft refineries

Berlin says Washington should not target subsidiaries of Russian oil company located in Germany

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34 h. ago Ukraine pounds Putin oil refinery with drones hours after Trump imposed sanctions on Moscow's oil giants

The strike set the massive Ryazan refinery ablaze overnight, sending flames above one of the country's largest industrial plants.

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35 h. ago Horror moment children rush from nursery after deadly Putin drone strike on school

Dozens of crying children were carried away from the burning building in Kharkiv after a flurry of Russian drone strikes destroyed a nursery in the northeastern Ukrainian city

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39 h. ago Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames?

In 2024, nearly a million hectares of Ukraine’s land burned. Heat, mines and shelling contributed, but footage of drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimesNatalia Pryprosta was tending to her pigs when fire swept into the village of Studenok, near the city of Izium in eastern Ukraine. There was no time. She grabbed her papers, pulled her elderly mother into a friend’s car, and tried to get the animals out of the shed. Smoke and the speed of the blaze made it impossible. She didn’t see the animals burning, but learned of their fate later.Smoke smothered Studenok, turning the village as dark as night. Pryprosta’s neighbours fought the flames with shovels, digging in scorched earth to stop the crown fire’s advance. Firefighters arrived, but the blaze was relentless. At one point, it surged around a fire truck, trapping the crew. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack

Explosions heard across Ukrainian capital after ballistic missile strikes, with further blasts reported in other regionsRussian drones and missiles have pounded the Ukrainian capital and other cities, killing six people in the Kyiv region, including a six-month-old baby, a 12 -year-old girl and a woman, and damaging key energy facilities and several high-rise residential buildings.The attacks lasted most of Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as Kyiv was hit by at least four ballistic missiles. A series of loud explosions could be heard across the city. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago A massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital kills at least 2, Ukrainian officials say

Ukrainian officials say Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, killing at least two people

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4 d. ago Zelenskyy calls for more US Patriot air defences after Trump again sides with Putin

Ukrainian president ready to join Putin-Trump summit and asks for additional anti-missile batteries, paid for with frozen Russian assetsTrump suggests carving up Ukraine’s Donbas region to end war after meeting with ZelenskyyVolodymyr Zelenskyy has called for the delivery of an additional 25 US Patriot anti-missile batteries amid the rapidly escalating air war with Russia, as it became clear that Donald Trump had once again tacked sharply towards Moscow.The Ukrainian president added that he would be ready to join Vladimir Putin and Trump at their summit in Hungary if he was invited. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Ukrainian drones strike major Russian gas plant as Trump says Kyiv may have to trade land for peace

Ukrainian drones have struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, causing a fire

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6 d. ago Soldiers on Ukraine’s frontline using remote controlled trucks for supply runs as Putin’s deadly drones patrol skies

SOLDIERS on Ukraine’s front line are using remote controlled trucks as a lifeline for supplies. Increasing numbers of enemy aerial drones have made vital supply runs even more deadly. So troops have turned to unmanned ground vehicles, or UGVs, to run the gauntlet through the “death zone” behind the front. They have also used the...

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8 d. ago Russia bombards Ukraine’s gas sites as Zelenskyy flies to US for Trump meeting

Strikes cause outages in eight regions before Washington talks to discuss US providing Kyiv with cruise missilesA massive Russian drone and missile strike has hit gas facilities in eastern Ukraine as the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, flew to Washington for a meeting with Donald Trump to discuss the US providing Kyiv with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.Russia launched hundreds of drones, dozens of missiles, as well as glide bombs early on Thursday, sparking outages in eight regions in another large-scale bombardment targeting Ukraine’s energy network. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Russian drone incursion ‘tactically stupid and counterproductive’ says Polish minister

Radosław Sikorski says Putin consolidated western opinion against him with the incursion into PolandEurope live – latest updatesPoland’s foreign minister has accused Russia of a “tactically stupid and counterproductive” escalation of the war in Ukraine, saying its drone incursion into Poland last month appeared to be deliberate.Radosław Sikorski, on a visit to London, said all Vladimir Putin had achieved with the incursion was a consolidation of western opinion against him. He also dismissed Russian concerns that supplying US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would be unnecessarily provocative. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago UK sanctions Russia’s largest oil companies in latest package amid Ukraine war

Yvette Cooper announced new restrictions on Rosneft and Lukoil as the Ukrainian speaker visited Parliament.

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9 d. ago Nato looks to bolster defences in response to Russian air incursions – Europe live

Fears Moscow testing west in grey zone between war and peace with incursions into Nato territoryRussia on Wednesday pushed back at US president Donald Trump’s warning that gasoline shortages showed Russia’s economy was nearing collapse, Reuters reports.Trump on Tuesday expressed disappointment with president Vladimir Putin, whom he said was unwilling to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine.We have a stable domestic market supply, we see no problems in this regardThe balance is maintained between production and consumption, and we, on the part of the government and the relevant ministries, are doing everything to ensure that this remains the case. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Ukraine 'will use Tomahawks to destroy huge Russian drone factory where 20,000 North Koreans build weapons once Trump gives the green light'

Ukraine will use long range Tomahawk missiles to destroy a vast Russian drone manufacturing plant employing tens of thousands of North Korean slave labourers.

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9 d. ago Ukraine has relied on trains during the war. Russia is creating new technology to target them

Deadly Russian drones smashed into the Shostka train station in northeastern Ukraine earlier this month

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9 d. ago Russia makes more precise drones and is using them to attack Ukraine’s vital rail network

Russia is intensifying drone strikes on Ukraine’s rail network, a critical lifeline for commercial freight, passenger traffic and military logistics

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9 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Poland minister shows Shahed drone and warns of ‘deep’ Russian threat

Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in London, urges drone wall and three-year plan to back Ukraine; Odesa mayor’s ‘citizenship suspended’. What we know on day 1,330 Continue reading...

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9 d. ago UK sends 85,000 drones to Ukraine in six months as Russia steps up strikes

Defence Secretary John Healey will co-host the latest Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.

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