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Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has cautioned Russians against adopting children who she said were "stolen" from Ukraine during the war and deported to Russia. Vereshchuk said on the Telegram messaging app that orphans…

A Ukraine-operated drone has caused an explosion injuring three people and damaging three residential buildings in the centre of the Russian town of Kireyevsk, south of Moscow. According to reports by the TASS news agency; "A Ukrainian…

NATO has criticised Vladimir Putin for what it called his "dangerous and irresponsible" nuclear rhetoric, a day after the Russian president said he would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Putin announced the move on Saturday…

Russian President Vladimir Putin says China’s proposals could be used as the basis of a peace settlement in Ukraine. Putin made the statement in Moscow after talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday. "We believe that many of…

A deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain has been renewed after it was set to expire on Saturday. The United Nations and Turkey said the deal had been extended, but did not specify for how long. Ukraine said it has…

The U.S. military said a Russian fighter plane clipped the propeller of one its spy drones and made it crash into the Black Sea on Tuesday. Two Russian Su-27 jets carried out what the U.S. military described as a reckless intercept of…

Ukraine and Russia claimed that hundreds of enemy troops were killed over the previous 24 hours in the fight for Bakhmut, with Kyiv fending off unabating attacks and a small river that bisects the town now marking the new front line.…

Canada has banned the import of all Russian aluminum and steel products in a move aimed at denying Moscow the ability to fund its war against Ukraine. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement that the ban covers both finished…

Russia fired a huge wave of hypersonic missiles across Ukraine on Thursday as people slept, killing at least nine civilians and knocking out power. The mass strikes on targets far from the front were the first such wave since…

Ukraine has denied any involvement in September's attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany. The denial follows a report from the New York Times, which cites anonymous US intelligence…