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When Volodymyr Niankin rushed to the centre of Sumy to meet his wife and their seven-year-old son who made it to a shelter just moments before a missile exploded above, he described coming across a post-apocalyptic scene. Bodies were scattered across the ground and cars were engulfed in flames, he …

Russian missiles struck the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people, officials said, in the second large-scale attack to claim civilian lives in just over a week. The two ballistic missiles hit around 10:15 a.m., officials said. Images …

The Ukrainian military has captured two Chinese men fighting with the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday.  Zelenskyy said a clash with Chinese soldiers occurred near the villages of Tarasivka and Bilohorivka in the Donetsk region, where six Chinese military personnel engaged Ukrainian …

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine be placed under a form of temporary administration to allow for new elections and the signature of key accords to reach a settlement in the war, Russian news agencies reported early on Friday. Putin’s comments, during a visit to the northern port of Murmansk, …

Detailed planning​ for a potential “coalition of the willing” peacekeeping mission to Ukraine is expected to kick off this week among Western military commanders, says the Canadian general in charge of overseas and domestic operations.​  The notion of a peacekeeping force is being met internationally with skepticism as Ukraine and …

Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Wednesday of launching air attacks that sparked fires and damaged infrastructure just hours after their leaders agreed to a limited ceasefire to halt attacks on energy infrastructure. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to temporarily stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities but declined to endorse …

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday to sign up to a ceasefire in its war against Ukraine if he is “serious about peace” and said allies will “keep the pressure” on the Kremlin, including financially and militarily. At the end of a virtual meeting of …

The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia proposed by the U.S. would “give nothing” to Russia, while helping Kyiv by giving its weary and short-handed military a break, a Kremlin aide said on Thursday. “A 30-day temporary ceasefire. Well, what does it give us? It gives us nothing. It only gives the Ukrainians …

Ukraine on Tuesday launched its biggest ever drone attack on Moscow, killing three people, injuring 18 others and causing a short shutdown at the Russian capital’s four airports, Russian officials said. The dawn attack unfurled as U.S. officials were to meet a Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia to seek an …

U.S. and Ukrainian delegations began meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Kyiv’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, two weeks after a disastrous meeting between the two countries’ leaders at the White House — and hours after a Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region. Officials in Moscow said Russian air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones, …