Ukraine is engaged in a campaign in Crimea to take out Russian air defenses, sever vital supply lines, and cripple the peninsula's energy grid and fuel reserves.

Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine's capital, killing at least 21 people and prompting President Zelenskyy to call for sped-up weapons support from his partners.

Iryna Moskaeva and her children jumped out of their beds and started running after an explosion rocked their Kyiv apartment early on Thursday, in a major Russian attack that killed 18 people across the Ukrainian capital.

Months of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's oil infrastructure have triggered widespread gasoline shortages, forcing fuel rationing.

European powers, which have viewed Russia as their main security threat, have watched warily as ties have grown closer between Moscow and Beijing.

Russia ⁠is targeting ⁠Ukrainian railway locomotives ​and has destroyed or ‌damaged more than ‌200 since ⁠the ⁠start of 2026 alone, Ukraine's Deputy ​Prime Minister for Restoration Oleksiy Kuleba said.

Russia has carried out more flights near Norway so far this year than in all of 2025, Oslo's military says.

Authorities haven't identified any of the three people wounded in the explosion but said they are a family and that they appear to have been specifically targeted.