Ukraine is using drone-based kill zones and attrition tactics to exhaust Russia’s offensive, forcing Moscow to adapt with robots and small-unit assaults.

Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on Wednesday that 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers are officially considered as absent without official leave (AWOL), meaning they have left their positions without permission to do so.

Moscow hits Ukraine with hail of drones and missiles as US president says Kyiv 'less ready for a deal' than Russia.

"In 2025 (...) growth was supported by domestic trade, construction, (...) the production of defense products and metallurgy," Oleksiy Sobolev, Ukraine's economy minister, said in a press release.

Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia, said the cities of Berdyansk, Vasylivka and the town of Prymorsk remain without electricity. Good morning and welcome to BBC Verify Live.

The European Commission is considering ways to allow Ukraine's quick accession to the EU as part of a peace deal with Russia but without giving Kyiv full membership rights, which would only be "earned" after transition periods,

Fire Point’s technical director Iryna Terekh, a former architect who shifted gears at the start Russia’s full-scale invasion, is laser-focused on effectiveness: “I’d love to make something that looks beautiful and leaves you short of breath,

Ukraine's new defense minister says wide-scale desertions and draft-dodging are major challenges as Russia's invasion continues.

Children across Ukraine risk hypothermia in freezing temperatures as emergency stocks of power generators run low following Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, international aid agencies said on Friday.

Securing from abroad new missile supplies for air defences that can counter Russia’s power grid attacks is a difficult and exhausting process, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, revealing that some of the country’s air defence systems were out of missiles and at Russia’s mercy until a new shipment arrived on Friday morning.

While he characterised the trip as a “humanitarian convoy”, footage from his visit – obtained by The Telegraph – showed him holding the red Communist Party flag while those around him chanted slogans in Russian, such as “United, we will never be defeated” and “The Donbas, the tomb of fascism”.