Ukraine's third-biggest city Odesa decides this week whether to ban Russian-language content in music and literature in public.

A deadly campaign of Russian and Ukrainian airstrikes has escalated since the last U.S.-brokered negotiations stalled in February.

"The United States is increasingly overstretched between these two conflicts," a former U.S. intelligence official told Newsweek.

The group allegedly received systematic bribes in exchange for allowing fraudulent call centers to operate without interference. The call centers targeted both Ukrainian citizens and foreigners,

While much of the city bears the scars of five years of war, below the ground at Kharkiv Lyceum No. 24, everything is new and ready to accommodate 1,000 children.

By Olena Harmash and Yuliia Dysa KYIV, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine's SBU security service in Kyiv on Friday, one of the most high-profile targets struck during the war as Russia intensified its campaign of air strikes against Ukraine.

Ukraine's increasingly successful attacks on Russian oil refineries are rippling through gasoline and diesel energy markets worldwide.

The SBU is vital to Ukraine's war efforts as it executes high-impact, deep strikes to damage Russia's war machine and its energy infrastructure.