The death toll from a massive Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv that began on Thursday night has risen to four, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service wrote in an update shared on Facebook on Friday. At least 25 people were also injured, including five rescuers, the service added.

NATO allies in the Coalition of the Willing are planning security guarantees for Ukraine once Russia's war is over.

US President Donald Trump said he supports a new package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine but hopes the measures will not have to be used. "I support it," Trump told US broadcaster Fox News in an interview published on Thursday,

President Donald Trump engaged Ukraine, Russian leaders throughout 2025 in unprecedented diplomatic push to end the war, including Alaska summit and Mar-a-Lago meetings.

Ukraine's commander in chief said December was the first month that its drones "neutralized" roughly as many Russians as were called up.

It is the latest in a series of attacks by Ukrainian naval and air drones on Russia-bound tankers in the Black Sea, as Kyiv looks to damage Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers transporting the oil which is so critical to Moscow’s wartime economy.

The United Kingdom and France have agreed to deploy forces in Ukraine if it strikes a peace deal with Russia, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, in a renewed push by Western leaders to guarantee Kyiv’s post-war security and deter Moscow from further aggression.

RUSSIA has torpedoed the latest Trump-backed bid to end the Ukraine war, issuing a furious rebuke amid fears of a “significant air attack” on Kyiv. Mad Vlad’s Ministry of Foreign