Russian forces hit a medical center in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine yesterday morning then struck again as the building was being evacuated, killing nine people and injuring 20 others, Ukrainian officials said.

Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky of refusing to "make a deal" to end his country's war with Russia

Ukrainian shelling killed three people, including a child, in a Russian border village, the provincial governor said yesterday..Border settlements in both Russia and Ukraine have been subjected to near daily shelling and drone attacks since Moscow launched its full-scale military offensive

A Russian strike on a residential neighbourhood in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv wounded 21 people including three minors, the regional governor said yesterday.

Ukraine said yesterday it had successfully struck two Russian weapons depots in the southern Krasnodar and western Tver regions, with Moscow announcing more than 1,000 evacuations.

The BBC and the independent Russian news site Mediazona said yesterday they had documented the deaths of around 70,000 Russian soldiers since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow and Kyiv swapped 103 prisoners of war each yesterday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates, a rare moment of coordination between the two warring sides as Russia pushes ahead in east Ukraine.

The leaders of Britain and the United States was set to meet in Washington on whether to let Kyiv fire Western-provided long-range missiles into Russia, an option that has sent tensions soaring with Moscow.

Ukraine’s security services yesterday said they had struck a Russian ammunition factory in a border region, as Moscow’s forces claimed yet another advance on the battlefield.

Aerial strikes on Russian and Ukrainian border cities killed at least a dozen people on Friday, bombardments that came as Kyiv dismissed its air force commander in a major military shake-up.

Russian strikes killed at least four people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, including a 14-year-old girl, officials said yesterday.

Ukraine conducted a drone attack on Russia’s Marinovka military airfield in the southern Russian region of Volgograd, striking a storage site for fuel and glide bombs, a security source in Kyiv said yesterday.

A total of 1,940 attacks on healthcare services in Ukraine have been registered since the start of Russia’s offensive in February 2022, the European branch of the World Health Organization said yesterday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday said his forces were “strengthening” their positions in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv has been mounting a major ground offensive for more than 11 days.

Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage unit that was armed with weapons from Nato countries in Russia’s western Kursk region, the RIA state-run media agency reported yesterday, citing unidentified security sources.

Ukraine pressed on with a major cross-border incursion into Russia yesterday, also launching a significant air attack on a Russian airfield hundreds of kilometres behind the front lines.

A fire broke out at a Russian military airfield hundreds of kilometres from the Ukrainian border, state media reported early Friday, with authorities ordering evacuations in the area due to a "massive" drone attack

Russian drones attacked the southern Ukrainian port city of Izmail for a second straight night damaging infrastructure, Kyiv said yesterday, claiming several Russian attack drones entered Romanian airspace.

Russia launched an air attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, setting at least one building ablaze, officials said yesterday.

Russia downed 25 Ukrainian drones overnight in the west of the country and over Crimea, Moscow’s defence ministry said yesterday.