In a rare move, the Pentagon yesterday released a de-classified video showing Russia’s intercept of a US military surveillance drone downed over the Black Sea two days ago.

Russia’s forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said yesterday, also warning of possible crimes against humanity.

Kyiv yesterday accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin of trying to widen the conflict in Ukraine after Washington said Russian fighter jets intercepted a US drone over the Black Sea, causing it to crash.

Ukraine’s future hinges on the outcome of battles in the east, including in and around Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky said early yesterday, as Russian troops keep coming in waves along the frontline in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine has accused two Russian soldiers of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and gang raping her mother at gunpoint in front of her father, as part of widespread allegations of abuse during the more than one-year-long invasion..According to Ukrainian prosecution files seen by Reute

Moscow and Kyiv both reported fierce fighting in the war’s bloodiest battle over the eastern city of Bakhmut, while Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to visit Russia as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.

The court would also seek arrest warrants for several people

The Ukrainian military was preparing for an upcoming counteroffensive yesterday, with a top commander saying his forces’ ongoing defence of Bakhmut in the face of fierce and sustained Russian attacks was necessary to “buy time” for that push.

Bakhmut has become a “killing zone” that is probably highly challenging for Russia’s Wagner mercenary forces trying to continue their assault westward, the UK Ministry of Defence said yesterday.

Ukraine has decided to fight on in the ruined city of Bakhmut because the battle there is pinning down Russia’s best units and degrading them ahead of a planned Ukrainian spring counter-offensive, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Russia fired a huge wave of missiles across Ukraine on Thursday as people slept, killing at least six civilians and knocking out power in an attack Kyiv said included six Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles, one of Moscow's most valuable weapons

Russia launched a huge wave of missile strikes across Ukraine while people slept yesterday, killing at least six civilians, knocking out electricity and forcing a nuclear power plant off the grid for several hours.

The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group yesterday said his forces had taken full control of the eastern part of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, and Nato’s secretary general said it could all fall to the invading army in the next few days.

The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force yesterday warned that Russia’s position around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was in peril unless his troops got ammunition, the latest sign of tension between the Kremlin and the private militia chief.

Kyiv yesterday said it was holding off attacks from Russian troops still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a now-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months.

Russian troops and mercenaries rained artillery on the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, bringing Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war

Russian troops and mercenaries rained artillery on the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut yesterday, bringing Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war.

The United States and its European allies sparred with Russia over the war in Ukraine at a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in New Delhi yesterday, with the rival sides each accusing the other of destabilising the world.

Ukrainian forces hung on to positions in the ruined eastern city of Bakhmut yesterday, while Moscow said its security forces had battled Ukrainian saboteurs who had taken hostages in a cross-border raid.

The United States and its European allies sparred with Russia over the war in Ukraine at a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in New Delhi on Thursday, with the rival sides each accusing the other of destabilising the world