Ukrainian forces fired Flamingo missiles at Russian oil facilities in a fresh wave of overnight strikes, the military has said on Thursday. This included strikes on the Morskoy Neftyanoy oil terminal in occupied Crimea and an oil depot in occupied Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s General Staff said.

Years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but Ukrainians are fighting back hard by trying to keep morale high

The Kremlin says Ukraine will have to enter negotiations with Russia "sooner or later" - claiming Kyiv's negotiating position is getting worse by the day. Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces a domestic crisis in developments linked to the war.

Russia is now using fiber-optic drones with a 50-kilometer reach, a senior Ukrainian official told Business Insider.

The US president, who is due to host Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, says there will be fresh US-Russia talks with "high level advisors" next week.

Ever since mid-2024, residents and Ukrainian officials have been stripping everything of value from the frontline town of Pokrovsk: library books, hospital beds, industrial equipment, everything that once supported a bustling settlement of more than 60,