Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,440.

On Saturday afternoon, top Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev said he had held a "constructive meeting with the U.S. peacemaking delegation" in Florida.

The number of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killed, wounded or missing during the war will reach 2 million by the spring, according to a study published Tuesday. The latest estimates show that Moscow has suffered about 1.

Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap interceptor drones, flipping the cost balance.

Officials in Ukraine say that a heavy Russian drone attack on Odesa has killed at least three people and wounded 23, including children and a pregnant woman.

Ukraine transported about 9.73 million tonnes of Russian oil in 2025 via the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline. Source: data released by ExPro, a Ukrainian market intelligence and analytics provider Details: ExPro reported that this was 14% less than in 2024,

At least 12 people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on the central Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, according to the latest official reports from Sunday evening. A further 16 people were said to have been injured,