Ukraine has received confirmation from partners that they will provide three Patriot missile defence systems and discussions are underway to obtain seven more, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday.

Ukraine and Russia launched air attacks along each other’s Black Sea coasts early yesterday, hours after brief direct talks between them failed to make any progress on steps to end nearly three-and-a-half years of war.

Russia fired a volley of drones and missiles at Ukraine early yesterday, hitting apartment blocks and a nursery in Kyiv, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a fresh round of peace talks.

The EU yesterday adopted a sweeping new package of sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine war, looking to pile more pressure on the Kremlin by lowering a price cap for Moscow’s oil exports.

A Ukrainian military recruit shot dead two instructors at a training centre in the north of the country, police said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine yesterday, and threatened to hit buyers of Russian exports with sanctions unless Russia agrees a peace deal in 50 days, a major shift in policy brought on by frustration with Moscow.

Russia’s defence ministry said yesterday its forces had captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Myrne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would supply weapons to Ukraine via Nato and that he would make a “major statement” on Russia on Monday.

The latest strike beat a previous Russian record of 550 drones and missiles set earlier this month

Moscow launched a fresh large-scale drone and missile barrage before the announcement, including on Ukraine's army recruitment centres

US President Donald Trump said Ukraine would need Patriot missiles for its defences, after speaking with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, and voiced frustration over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to end the fighting.

Russia pummelled Kyiv with the largest drone attack of the war, injuring at least 23 people and damaging buildings across the capital only hours after US President Donald Trump spoke with Russia's Vladimir Putin, officials said yesterday.

Ukraine’s army chief yesterday ordered defensive lines to be built more quickly in the northeastern Sumy region, as Russian forces gained ground towards the industrial Dnipropetrovsk region.

Waves of Russian drones and missiles in and around Kyiv overnight killed 10 people including one child, lit up the night sky with fires in residential areas and damaged the entrance to a metro station bomb shelter, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

Putin and Trump held a call for the fifth time since the Republican took office

Ukraine and Russia conducted another POW swap -- the fourth one in a week -- the warring sides said yesterday, under agreements reached in Istanbul earlier this month.

Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa in attacks that killed at least three people, officials said yesterday.

The overnight strikes followed Russia's biggest drone assault of the war on Ukraine on Monday and were part of intensified bombardments in what Moscow says is retaliation for attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russia

Russia attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv at night with drones, missiles and guided bombs, killing at least three people and injuring 22, including a one-and-a-half-month-old baby, said the city mayor Ihor Terekhov.

Moscow said yesterday that a Ukrainian attack on a bridge that links the annexed Crimean peninsula to Russia caused “no damage.”