Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that aired on Thursday that Russia will fight for its interests “to the end” but has no interest in expanding its war in Ukraine to other countries such as Poland and Latvia.

Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killed four people and injured one other person yesterday, a local official said.

The United Nations’ top court said Friday a case brought by Ukraine against Russia over the brutal 2022 invasion could go ahead after ruling it had jurisdiction over most of the points made by Kyiv.

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday ruled that the case Ukraine started accusing Russia of violating international law by accusing Ukraine of genocide can move forward.

Ukraine said yesterday it had destroyed a Russian warship in the Black Sea off the Crimean peninsula, which has come under increasing Ukrainian attacks.

Ukraine yesterday rejected Russia’s claim that it had captured a tiny village in the east, as battles grind on nearly two years into Moscow’s invasion.

Russia accused Ukraine today of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange

At least 25 people were killed and 20 injured after Ukrainian forces shelled the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Alexei Kulemzin, the city’s Russian-installed mayor, said yesterday.

The European Union said Friday it will drastically increase ammunition production this year in response to Ukraine’s growing pleas for support in its war against Russia, which summoned the French ambassador to protest at the country’s “growing involvement” in the conflict.

Ukraine said it was behind a drone strike that sparked a huge inferno at an oil depot in western Russia yesterday, the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks.

Russia yesterday said it destroyed all targets in a barrage of strikes on facilities producing ammunition and drones in Ukraine.

A woman was killed in Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Kursk region and drones struck a fuel facility in the neighbouring region of Orlyov, the two regions’ governors said yesterday, amid an escalation of cross-border attacks.

Russia sent dozens of missiles across Ukraine early yesterday, killing at least four civilians and hitting residential areas and commercial sites in its latest combined air attack, Ukrainian authorities said.

Russia yesterday announced its forces shot down four Ukrainian missiles over Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Moscow will intensify strikes on military targets in Ukraine after an unprecedented attack over the weekend on the Russian city of Belgorod.

Russia pounded the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with missiles and drones in the hours leading into New Year’s Eve, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow accused Kyiv of carrying out a deadly air assault just across the border on nearby Belgorod.

Russia said yesterday that a Ukrainian strike killed at least 14 people and injured 108 in the city of Belgorod, a day after Russian strikes killed dozens in Ukraine.

Russia launched a massive air attack over Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding scores across the country in the fiercest assault since the first days of the war nearly two years ago

Russia yesterday unleashed one of its biggest missile attacks on Ukraine of the war, killing 18 civilians, wounding more than 130 others and hitting residential buildings in Kyiv, the south and west of the country, officials said.

Russia unleashed its largest drone and missile attack on Ukraine in months today, killing 10 people and wounding at least 60 others in Kyiv, the south, west, and east of the country, officials said