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Ukraine’s threat may force Putin into negotiations to end the conflict, say experts

Attacks by Russia and Ukraine against commercial shipping and port facilities has surged significantly and could escalate further

It comes after the UK last month agreed to provide Ukraine with Storm Shadow blueprints

Ukrainian students are beginning their fifth school year since Russia’s invasion, with no end to the war in sight

Expansionist desires, aggressive military actions, and the consolidation of power in its internal affairs used to attack political enemies, Keir Giles explains how, while writing his new book, he came to realise the two countries are becoming exceedingly hard to tell apart

Russian minister says country 'will not allow any significant disruption to civil aviation'

Germany’s interior minister said the event corresponds with a known pattern of ‘Russian hybrid operations’

Parents and children in Ukraine and Russia gathered on Tuesday for a traditional 'Knowledge Day' celebrations, marking the fifth school year since Russia's invasion, but an air raid alert quickly dispersed the crowd in Kyiv.

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

Moscow has retaliated against Kyiv’s sustained deep strike campaign on Russian infrastructure

India is one of ​the ⁠biggest buyers of Russian oil and that trade is helping Moscow replenish its budget despite Western sanctions

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

Kyiv and Moscow exchange attacks overnight as drones downed in Russian capital and Leningrad region

Ukraine is striking deeper into the heart of Russia than ever before with swarms of drones that have led Russians into a panic.Experts say that Kyiv’s resourcefulness is a result of studying Moscow, Maira Butt reports

The Kremlin accused Ukraine of pursuing a ‘path of escalation’ and vowed retaliation

A Russian drone strike on a warehouse triggered massive explosions and fires, killing 37 people and damaging dozens of nearby homes and buildings in the deadliest Russian attack in Ukraine this year.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky vows punishment for those responsible for attack in village of Myla

Ukraine has been littered with mines since Putin invaded the country in 2022, posing a devastating risk to civilians. Antonina Kulhava, a humanitarian deminer, tells Maira Butt how she is trying to make her country safer

The Ukrainian president has promised to punish those responsible as munitions were unknowingly stored in the area causing a huge fire to spread from the explosion

Capitalising on the Hormuz crisis to ramp up action in Ukraine will have consequences, Ratcliffe warns Putin in secret meeting

Brown believes it is a ‘critical moment’ in the war between Ukraine and Russia

President Trump dismissed suggestions that the CIA director was sent to Moscow over concerns that Russia could test NATO’s resolve

Editorial: The most stupid conflict America has ever got itself involved in, Operation Epic Fury was the wrong war fought at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons

‘There is a concrete goal, and we will fulfil this task,’ Ukrainian president says