Anton Siluanov last attended the meeting via video link in April 2022, prompting Western officials to walk out

Putin said the warning sounded like “state terrorism” and vowed to respond

Anti-corruption bodies continue to scalp high-ranking Ukrainian officials amid a widening graft probe. James C. Reynolds and Alex Croft report

Nato has raised the alarm over the threat of a Russian attack amid repeated incursions by Moscow’s drones

The attack on the rocket fuel plant was part of what Moscow says was Kyiv’s largest drone attack of 2026

Kyiv has been striking targets beyond enemy lines in recent months

Russian authorities said Kyiv fired around 600 drones to the capital of Moscow

Conor Kennedy said he was ‘willing to die’ in Ukraine after signing up to fight in 2022. Four years later he has been accused of acting as a mercenary by a Russian court

Reports in Russia claim the deceased is a former Ukrainian navy official who defected to Russia

Ukrainian warns Putin is poised to escalate the conflict as air defences run dry

Moscow denies Ukrainian claims that Kyiv’s forces are killing Russian troops faster than they are being recruited

Kyiv says that Ukraine has been supplied with a third of the air defence missiles it was given in 2025

Kyiv said it does not target civilians but is ramping up long-range strikes

Warehouses in several parts of Ukraine under attack overnight as Russia pounds Kyiv and surrounding regions