Russia said yesterday it had destroyed five Ukrainian SU-27 fighter jets with Iskander-M missiles and damaged two more at the Myrhorod airfield in Ukraine’s central Poltava region.

A Ukrainian drone attack on a house in a Russian border village killed five people, including two children, the regional governor said yesterday.

Russia today summoned the US ambassador to the foreign ministry over what it said was Washington's "responsibility" for a Ukrainian strike on Crimea that killed four people, including two children

Russia said yesterday that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five US-supplied missiles that killed at least five people including three children and injured 124 more.

Ukraine yesterday said Russia had launched a “massive” overnight attack on energy infrastructure in the west and south, adding that at least seven people died from Moscow strikes elsewhere.

Ukrainian long-range attack drones struck four Russian oil refineries as well as radar stations and other military targets in Russia in a major attack in the early hours of yesterday, Kyiv’s military said.

Russian attacks overnight damaged a Ukrainian power plant and several energy facilities, Kyiv said yesterday, the latest in a series of bombardments that have pushed its power grid to the brink.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hailed North Korea for "firmly supporting" Moscow's war in Ukraine ahead of a visit to Pyongyang set to boost defence ties between the two nuclear-armed countries

Ukraine said yesterday its forces were fighting fierce battles near Chasiv Yar, a strategic hilltop settlement whose capture would give Moscow a powerful foothold in the eastern Donetsk region.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that a Russian strike on his home town in southern Ukraine had left eight people dead and wounded 21 more.

Ukrainian strikes on parts of the Russian-held Lugansk and Kherson regions killed 26 people and injured dozens more on Friday, occupation authorities said.

The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 22 of the 27 Shahed-type drones launched over five Ukrainian regions in Russia’s overnight attack yesterday.

Russia fired a combined 100 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that targeted energy sites across the country, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

President Joe Biden quietly has authorised Kyiv to launch US-supplied weapons at military targets inside Russia that are supporting an offensive against the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, four US officials said on Thursday

Ukraine’s military intelligence service said yesterday its forces had used naval drones to destroy two Russian patrol boats off Moscow-annexed Crimea.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that if US President Joe Biden missed a peace summit organised by Kyiv in Switzerland next month, it would be like a standing ovation for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A Russian strike on a crowded DIY hardware store in Kharkiv killed 16 people and wounded dozens more, Ukrainian prosecutors said yesterday morning, the death toll rising as the country’s second-largest city reeled from two attacks a day earlier.

Russian forces have become “bogged down” trying to capture the Ukrainian border town of Vovchansk but have intensified their offensive elsewhere on the eastern front, Ukraine’s top general said yesterday.

Russia pounded Kharkiv with missiles yesterday, killing seven people inside a printing house, and President Volodymyr Zelensky chided Ukraine’s western allies for not providing enough military support to rebuff Russian attacks.

The deputy head of the Russian army's General Staff has been accused of taking bribes and arrested, investigators said on Thursday, the latest in a slew of high-profile cases of alleged corruption to shake the military's top brass