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Ukraine said it attacked one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries and a key hub in the country’s crude-pipeline network, intensifying its campaign against key infrastructure to limit Moscow’s ability to finance the war.

Moscow has suffered further losses of occupied territory, but is using new drones to beat Ukraine's defences.

Russian airstrikes hit Kyiv’s Southern Bridge, the city’s mayor said on Friday. Russia also targeted a school and apartment buildings in the capital, killing at least one person. Ukraine, meanwhile, launched an overnight drone attack on the Russian city of Volgograd, targeting industrial facilities. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine.

President Lee Jae Myung also accused Kyiv of "attempting to provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula".

South Korea’s ⁠President accused Ukraine of ⁠undermining him by disclosing POW transfer deal

Putin warned the West he would deploy nuclear weapons if necessary to defend the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.

A combination of rigid Western military attitudes and Kyiv's regulatory paralysis leaves fewer weapons at the front.

Um drone russo atingiu uma escola na capital da Ucrânia, informaram as autoridades nesta quinta-feira (1º), o mais recente episódio de uma série de ataques aéreos cada vez mais intensos contra Kiev. O prefeito Vitali Klitschko disse que havia crianças no abrigo no momento do ataque, que provocou um incêndio. Ele informou que não houve feridos. Notícias relacionadas:Ataques russos contra logística ucrâniana são cada vez mais intensos.Kremlin diz que paz na Ucrânia ainda está muito distante.O Serviço Estatal de Emergências divulgou imagens de equipes de resgate vasculhando os escombros e apagando o incêndio no prédio carbonizado, cujas janelas estavam estilhaçadas. O bombardeio matinal ocorreu em meio a ataques cada vez mais intensos, 24 horas por dia, contra Kiev e outras cidades com drones a jato, que as Forças Armadas da Ucrânia têm tido dificuldade em derrubar. Uma pessoa ficou ferida na manhã de hoje em um ataque aéreo russo a um centro comercial na cidade portuária de Odessa, no Mar Negro, segundo autoridades regionais. O chefe da administração municipal, Serhiy Lysak, disse que a infraestrutura foi danificada, sem dar mais detalhes. Odessa e a região próxima têm sido alvos frequentes de ataques que visam, em parte, sufocar as receitas de exportação de Kiev. A Rússia, que afirma atacar apenas alvos militares, informou ter atacado um centro de dados em Odessa e um navio de carga no porto vizinho de Chornomorsk. * É proibida a reprodução deste conteúdo.

Russian drone strikes hit a school in Kyiv and the main bridge, disrupting transport in the latest wave of attacks.

Russia’s new class of jet-powered drones rip across the night sky in Kyiv at hundreds of kilometres per hour, leaving Ukrainian air-defence units only moments to intercept them. It’s rarely enough time. With many of the drones getting through to the capital, defence manufacturers are scrambling to develop a new generation of interceptors to counter the deadly threat. They are building their own jet propulsion systems and training artificial intelligence to help guide the chase. They need to move...

Russia launched its heaviest combined assault on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in months on Wednesday, killing seven people and triggering emergency power cuts in Kyiv and nearby regions. The strikes came as officials warned of a difficult winter as Russian forces target power and heating systems.

A foreign policy speech by the Russian president will be keenly watched, but all signs point to the full-scale invasion continuing.

A Russian attack drone crashed into a children’s playground in Kyiv, Ukraine without exploding.

At least three people, including a child, have died after Russia launched another round of strikes on Kyiv and its surrounding regions overnight to Wednesday, officials said. Several people were also wounded in the attacks. In Poland, two airports, in Lublin and Rzeszow, were briefly shut over “military aviation activity” during Russian attacks on Ukraine. Follow our liveblog for all the latest updates.

The move marks the fourth military expansion this year as Russia's war in Ukraine seemingly stalls.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia launched a wave of overnight strikes across Ukraine, hitting two foreign-flagged vessels in the Black Sea and targets in Kyiv. The strikes come as Russia ramps up its pressure campaign intended to make Ukraine buckle under near-constant bombardment of its capital and other cities.  

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday boosting the size of the army by 15,500 troops in the fourth such order this year. Putin’s order comes as both Russia and Ukraine suffer mounting casualties in the more than four-and-a-half-year Ukraine war. The decree did not give a reason for the troop increase. “The authorised personnel strength of the Russian armed forces is to be set at 2,441,630 units, including 1,550,500 military personnel,” the decree said. Putin had previously...

Ukraine condemns Russian targeting of civilians as strikes kill seven and injure dozens across Kyiv.

A Russian drone struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv, killing one person

The BBC's Paul Adams reports from the scene of the strike on Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences.

A Russian strike hit a nine-storey apartment block in Kharkiv early on Monday, injuring 25 people, including nine children. Emergency workers evacuated 32 residents from the damaged building, according to regional authorities.

Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy says Moscow launched nearly 4,000 drones, aerial bombs and missiles on Ukraine in past week.

Russian strikes killed eight people across Ukraine on Sunday, authorities said, a day after Moscow vowed to continue the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had launched about 3,900 drones, aerial bombs and missiles over the past week. Ukraine accused Moscow of deliberately targeting civilians as winter approaches.

Meanwhile, Moscow and Kyiv continued to exchange strikes on Saturday, with Russian attacks killing at least four people across Ukraine. As both sides intensify their aerial attacks, US President Donald Trump said he hoped Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin would reach an agreement and “settle” their differences. Morgan Ayre reports.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov vowed that the objectives of Moscow’s military operation will be achieved.

New strikes come after the US proposes a fresh round of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks in the UAE.

New York Times Kyiv bureau chief Andrew Kramer tells Bloomberg This Weekend that Russia and Ukraine are increasingly targeting each other’s economies as the war shifts toward attacks on energy, transportation and export infrastructure. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Kramer says Ukraine is using its expanding drone arsenal to target Russia’s oil industry and its ability to finance a prolonged war. (Source: Bloomberg)

Alleged incursions put NATO nations on alert as Ukraine launches strikes on Russia during parliamentary voting.

Such strikes aim to disrupt "people's ability to stay connected, study, work", says Ukraine's president.

European Union countries have agreed to release €6.6 billion from a fund meant to reimburse member states that have  provided arms to Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday. At least seven people were killed in Russian strikes on Kyiv earlier in the day, according to local authorities.