The US president's envoys were scheduled to arrive in Ukraine by plane Ukraine was ready to receive a US aircraft carrying special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner but Russia struck the airfields in Boryspil and Zhuliany,

A day before a U.S. delegation arrived, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had deliberately targeted the runways at Kyiv's Zhuliany airport and Boryspil International Airport.

The truce expired, and within hours Russia sent more than a hundred and fifty drones and anti-ship, ballistic and cruise missiles at the capital — a mixed package built to overwhelm defenses. The timing,

Lithuania is teaching civilians young and old to help defend their tiny nation from a hypothetical Russian invasion, and telling Putin, "We don't fear you."

A Russian drone struck the Kyiv headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, on Friday, in a rare direct hit on a key government building that highlights Ukraine’s dire shortages of air defenses.

THIS is the harrowing moment Ukraine’s state security service HQ was pummelled by a Russian drone in an attempt to assassinate the acting spy chief. Footage shows the strike in the historic

As Moscow responds to Kyiv’s growing success against conventional piston-engine Shahed drones, new Russian drone variants have increasingly threatened Ukraine. In July 2026, Moscow deployed five times as many jet-powered drones as it did in June 2025.

The Kremlin on Tuesday escalated its rhetorical stance on the protracted European war, with senior spokesperson Dmitry Peskov asserting that a Russian victory in Ukraine is now "very near".