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Russian missile strikes pummelled energy facilities across Ukraine knocking out electricity in the whole of the Kyiv region and causing blackouts in neighboring Moldova on Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has promised to set up “invincibility centres” around Ukraine as a harsh winter looms amid relentless Russian strikes that have destroyed the country's power structure. Zelenskiy said the centres…

Russia says it hopes to secure a prisoner swap with the United States to return convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death", in an exchange that would likely include U.S. basketball star, Brittney Griner.

Swedish Prosecution Authority says investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines, confirming sabotage had taken place.

United States basketball star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a penal colony about 500 km (300 miles) southeast of Moscow to serve nine years behind bars in Russia after being convicted on drug charges.

NATO and Poland say the missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine's air defences and not a Russian strike, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border.

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations have adopted a declaration condemning Russia's aggression in Ukraine and demand its unconditional withdrawal. 

NATO and G7 countries have pledged to maintain close contact to decide any possible reaction after a deadly explosion killed two people in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns has held talks with Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service in the Turkish capital Ankara on the consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.

The United States say it will impose new sanctions on transnational networks accused of supplying military technology for Russia’s war in Ukraine.