A Russian airstrike on a Kyiv apartment complex that killed at least 24 people and a Ukrainian strike on residential buildings and an oil refinery in Ryazan, Russia, suggested no end is in sight to the war.

Authorities say a massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine has demolished an apartment block in Kyiv, killing seven and wounding dozens.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that Russia and Ukraine had a prisoner exchange on Thursday, each side releasing 205.

Ukraine has brought home 205 service personnel from Russian captivity in the first stage of a bigger prisoner of war swap, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.

Russian drones twice attacked a vehicle carrying a United Nations leader and eight other UN workers on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The vehicle was carrying the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired at least 800 drones in a massive daytime barrage on about 20 regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, including children, in one of the longest attacks by Moscow in the 4-year-old war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Lalita Radha Rani Face, her husband Sundara Face and other family members performed the ceremony on the banks of the Falgu River, strictly adhering to all traditional rites and procedures to honour the memory of Lalita's brother.

Last month, Ukraine managed to liberate more land than Russia seized – the first time Moscow suffered a net loss of territory since Ukraine’s 2024 Kursk incursion.