(Reuters) -An apartment building where Ukraine international Heorhiy Sudakov lives was damaged in a Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Sudakov and Ukrainian media said on Sunday. Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine overnight, setting the main government building on fire in central Kyiv and killing at least four people, including…
new video loaded: Rescuers Search Through Rubble After Russian Strikes on Kyiv By Finbarr O’Reilly and Monika Cvorak•August 28, 2025 Emergency workers looked through the wreckage of a five-story apartment building early Thursday after a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, killed more than a dozen people. Recent episodes in Ukraine…
Resource constraints and precedent mean China is unlikely to become one of Ukraine’s security guarantors – despite Russia’s suggestion that it could, according to analysts. With rising expectations for a face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, security guarantees for Kyiv have taken centre stage in discussions about a…
The highly anticipated US-Russia presidential summit in Alaska had raised hopes for progress on ending the Ukraine war, but instead left more questions than answers. Still, observers viewed Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic return to US soil – his first in a decade – as a symbolic win for Moscow. The nearly three-hour talks, which both Putin…
A coalition of European nations rallied behind Ukraine on Saturday, saying the Russia-Ukraine war can’t be resolved without Kyiv, ahead of a planned meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that currently isn’t set to include Ukraine’s leader. The statement, signed by the president of the European Union and the leaders of France,…
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday dismissed the planned summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace deal excluding Kyiv would lead to “dead solutions.” The Trump-Putin meeting, scheduled for Friday in Alaska, has been cast as a potential breakthrough in the nearly 3½-year war. Trump had previously agreed…
While the call on Friday underscored a high level of coordination between Beijing and Moscow in their approach to Washington, Chinese experts voiced scepticism about the prospects for the Alaska summit and its aim of negotiating an end to the Ukraine war. They cautioned that although Trump’s first in-person encounter in his second term with…
Russian strikes on a penal colony in the frontline region of Zaporizhzhia in southwestern Ukraine overnight killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 80 others, regional Ukrainian military and Zaporizhzhia’s governor said on Tuesday. Zaporizhzhia governor Ivan Fedorov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that the correctional facility’s buildings were destroyed, and…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s security agency said Sunday it tracked down and killed Russian agents suspected of shooting one of its senior officers to death in the Ukrainian capital. The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, said in a statement that the suspected Russian agents were killed in the Kyiv region after they offered…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing cannot afford a Russian loss in Ukraine because it fears the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing, according to several people familiar with the exchange. The comment, to the EU’s Kaja Kallas, would confirm what many…