Russia-Ukraine war

Zelensky said Russia fired demonstrative strikes on airports in Kyiv and Boryspil overnight ahead of the planned US visit.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow ahead of talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Russian state media, citing the Kremlin, reported that Putin ordered no strikes on Kyiv for three days due to the US visit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 72-hour pause in strikes on Kyiv.

Russian attacks killed five people and wounded five more at an industrial facility in Ukraine's southern Dnipropetrovsk region, according to local military administration head Oleksandr Hanzha.

Witkoff and Kushner had never previously visited Kyiv.

The peace plan could include security guarantees for Ukraine and an initial ceasefire.

Russia hit the headquarters of Ukraine's SBU security services on Friday.

Trump said US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are traveling to Kyiv and Moscow this weekend to revive peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.

Images shared online showed black smoke pouring from two windows on the front of the SBU building.

Zelensky said he spoke to Poklad and ordered an appropriate, tangible response to the strike.

The Russian defence ministry said it had struck a cargo vessel in the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk and a tanker near Odesa on Friday.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently controls about 20% of its territory.

Witkoff and Kushner have visited Russia multiple times, but the purported talks will be the first in Ukraine.

Zelensky said a Russian drone hit the office of Ukraine's security chief Oleksandr Poklad in Kyiv, and Poklad appears to be unharmed.

GPS signals are disrupted in Kyiv to jam drones.

A Russian drone tore through the floor of Ivan Datsiv's apartment in Kyiv's Podil district on Tuesday.

Russia has changed tactics in attacks on Kyiv by using fast-flying, jet-powered drones.

Donald Trump says the weapons and ammunition provided to Ukraine were transferred free of charge.

Donald Trump says the US will ask for the money back for the military aid provided to Ukraine.

Donald Trump says Europe should have paid for the military aid provided to Ukraine.

Stanislav Secrieru, national security advisor to Moldova's President Maia Sandu, said Russia began striking Ukraine's border infrastructure along the Moldovan frontier in August.

Moldova cut rail transit tariffs by half to keep Ukrainian grain moving toward Romania's ports.

Both Moldova and Ukraine applied for EU membership on the same day shortly after Russia's invasion in 2022.

Several underwater blasts destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines on September 26, 2022.

After Trump removed Washington from the Russia-Ukraine war political chessboard, Berlin became Kyiv's largest Western backer.

After Nord Stream 1 was launched in 2011, Kyiv lost half of its annual $3bn in transit fees for Russian gas.

The strike hit an ammunition storage facility in the village of Myla.

Terekh said the coming winter would be no easier for Ukraine than the last one and probably harder.

Zelenskyy said an investigation was launched to understand how and why the ammunition was housed there.

Five people were injured in fresh strikes on Kyiv on Saturday morning, including an 18-year-old girl.

A 14-year-old was killed in a separate attack in the Boryspil district.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergiy Koretsky said making the same mistakes in the fifth year of the full-scale invasion is criminal negligence.

Three crew members were seriously injured when the Nadezhda cargo ship was hit by a drone near the Russian port of Novorossiysk earlier in the month.

A free trade agreement between Turkiye and Ukraine was ratified by the Ukrainian government in July.

Ukraine's ambassador to Turkiye was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara following two attacks on Turkish-operated vessels in the Black Sea.

Ukraine's deputy head of military law enforcement Gyunduz Mamedov said this is the 27th blackout at the plant since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been without off-site power for more than a week as of August 29, 2026.

The Zaporizhzhia plant has not generated electricity since September 2022.

The attack was the second to hit a munitions depot near Kyiv in less than two months.

A Russian strike on an arms depot near Kyiv killed 38 people and wounded dozens, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Videos showing the moment of a huge explosion and the plumes of smoke that followed have been shared online.

Taras Didych, the long-time head of the local municipality, was among those killed after arriving at the scene to help.

At least 37 people were killed and dozens wounded when a Russian drone strike on an ammunition warehouse caused multiple explosions in a residential area near Kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that a care home for elderly citizens and people with disabilities was among dozens of buildings damaged in the strike.

More than 300 emergency service personnel were deployed to the village of Myla.

Russia's Ministry of Defence said its forces targeted an ammunition depot in Myla storing components for FP-1/FP-2 long-range drones.

381 people, including 59 children, were evacuated from the area.

Governor Yuri Slyusar stated that Ukrainian drone attacks wounded 11 people in Russia's Rostov region.

More than 370 people were evacuated following the warehouse strike.

Russian strikes in the Kherson region killed two people and wounded 27 others on Saturday.

Russian commander-in-chief Valery Gerasimov said on Thursday that his troops were within four kilometres of Sloviansk.

Zelenskyy said Russia could potentially produce up to 1,300 ballistic missiles per year.

Zelenskyy said he had been hoping to amass about 360 Patriot missiles ahead of winter but acknowledged that when 600 are produced per year, 360 is not easy to obtain.

In Kherson, a drone strike killed a 61-year-old man.

The destruction of thermal plant equipment prompted warnings of prolonged heating shortages in Kherson.

Strikes destroyed Kherson's remaining thermal plant equipment.

Western officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to avoid a direct military confrontation with NATO.

The UK government has made clear that recent Russian threats will not deter its support for Ukraine.

Putin has not changed his maximalist objectives, according to Western officials.

Zelenskyy said he plans for the Ukrainian army to launch at least 1,000 drones against Russia daily.

The Kremlin said there were no meetings between Ratcliffe and the Russian president.

At least one person was killed and two others injured in the Kyiv region on Friday.

Russia's Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said Russian forces advanced to a position four kilometers from the eastern outskirts of Sloviansk.

Valery Gerasimov claimed Russian troops overcame the first defensive line of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk fortified region in certain areas.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha welcomed a push from four European Union member states seeking to leverage frozen Russian assets.

President Trump confirmed the visit to Moscow in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck, describing it as a semi-routine trip.

U.S. officials said the likely goal of Russian provocative actions would be to test NATO's unity and the Trump administration's willingness to defend NATO allies.

CBS News was first to report the trip, which is Ratcliffe's first known visit to Russia as CIA director.

European benchmark Dutch TTF futures climbed above 68 euros per megawatt-hour on Tuesday, the highest level since early 2023.

Disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have sharply curtailed LNG exports from key Gulf producers such as Qatar during Europe's gas-storage refill season.

European Union gas stores were at about 63% according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe, one of the lowest levels on record for this time of year and roughly 18 percentage points below the five-year average.

Maria Zakharova said any British military installations and equipment in Ukraine and beyond its borders could be targeted in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory carried out using British weapons.

A spokesperson for Britain's Ministry of Defence told Reuters that London stood "shoulder to shoulder" with Ukraine.

Moscow accused Ukraine of striking a shopping center in Russian-controlled Donetsk with British Storm Shadow missiles, wounding civilians including children.

The blast took place at approximately 10am local time (07:00 GMT).

The committee initially labelled the incident a vehicle fire rather than officially confirming an explosive device.

On August 5, the director of a factory supplying drones to the Russian military was badly wounded and his driver was killed when their car exploded east of Moscow.

Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck a Lukoil refinery in Kstovo, in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed that the state can temporarily seize control of critical infrastructure facilities if private owners don't protect them from Ukrainian drone attacks or don't rebuild them after strikes.

A Wildberries depot in the Tambov region of Russia was destroyed by fire after a Ukrainian drone strike.

The White House, CIA, Pentagon and the US Air Force all declined to comment on the visit.

Trump said Ratcliffe was not in Moscow for reasons related to fears Putin would test NATO resolve or to win cooperation for intensified US sanctions on Iran.

Trump said the US is working to end the war in Ukraine and that both sides want it ended.

The White House's Rapid Response account on X criticized Coons' remarks.

Zelenskyy met with Trump in the Oval Office on July 28 to discuss licensing Ukraine to produce Patriot missile interceptors.

Nick Adams said Coons' comments are the essence of America last.

Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot restated his country's concerns about frozen assets on a visit to Kyiv.

Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard is the lead signatory on the draft letter.

The letter requests foreign ministers have a first discussion of the topic at an informal meeting due to take place in Ireland on Sept. 1-2.

Ukrainian drones targeted the Wildberries e-commerce hub in Russia.

At least 12 people have died in a series of strikes on Wildberries.

Authorities in Russia's Tambov region said a major Wildberries warehouse was entirely destroyed.

A drone carrying an explosive discovered at an airport in Leipzig, Germany was probably Russian, according to security experts.

One US official told Politico that the meeting was primarily to warn Russia against any escalatory action against the Baltic states.

A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said Russia could strike British military targets as retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russia using British missiles.

One person was injured in the strike on the Wildberries logistics centre.

Ukraine has accused Wildberries of having a role in Russia's military supply chain.

Moscow and Wildberries say its facilities are used for civilian purposes.

President Donald Trump confirmed Ratcliffe's visit and called it semi-routine.

Sources told ABC News that Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow in part to warn Russia not to attack NATO countries.

The CIA declined to comment on the trip.

Three people were killed in an attack on a petrol station outside Kryvyi Rih the week prior to publication.

Oleksandr Sirenko, an analyst with Ukrainian energy think-tank Nafto Rynok, says Russia has hit at least 246 filling stations across Ukraine.

The Centre for Information Resilience verified 114 Russian strikes on filling stations in July, compared with 66 in June.

Andrei Fedorov, an adviser to the Kremlin and a former deputy foreign minister, told the BBC that he could not exclude that there might be some semi-military action against Britain.

The UK shared missile blueprints with Ukraine for it to manufacture French-British designed long-missile drones.

The Scalp missile has a range of about 240km.

OpenAI said the operators prompted ChatGPT in Russian to generate social media comments posted on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn, while instructing it to hide linguistic clues of their Russian origins.

OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that it said were being used to support a covert online influence campaign.

OpenAI said the campaign was built around a website containing copied and misattributed academic work and a 'sovereignty' index that cast Russia in a favourable light.

Putin said Ukraine opened "Pandora's box" with its strikes on Russian economic targets and pledged to hit back at Kyiv's most sensitive economic sectors.

Ozon was founded in 1998.

The combined revenue of Wildberries, Ozon and Yandex Market reached approximately $140.3 billion by the end of last year, equivalent to more than 5% of Russia's GDP.

Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska the previous year, but the meeting did not lead to a breakthrough.

Ratcliffe appears to be one of the highest-ranking US officials to visit Russia during Donald Trump's second term.

Ratcliffe played a role in negotiations for the release of Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American citizen jailed in Russia for over a year.

The 2022 partial mobilisation effort effectively ended two months after it was declared.

Mikhail Liberov of the Conscientious Objectors Movement said human rights activists are already working on the assumption that mobilisation will take place in the fall of 2025.

According to Russia's Ministry of Defence, about 2,000 people apply for alternative civilian service each year, with approximately half receiving approval.

The inaugural meeting of the Integrated Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition took place in Paris on July 13.

French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will co-chair a Coalition of the Willing meeting on Monday.

Andy Burnham's trip to Kyiv is his first foreign trip as U.K. prime minister.

Russian drones struck a shopping center in central Ukraine on Friday, killing 16 people and wounding 130, according to Ukrainian officials.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin views the plan to produce SCALP missiles in Ukraine extremely negatively and accused the U.K. of taking part in the war on Kyiv's side.

Three teenagers were killed and six children were wounded in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, according to Russia's children's rights ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova.

International leaders visited Ukraine to mark its Independence Day.

Domestic political pressure on Zelenskyy has been growing amid corruption investigations into senior government officials.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected a call from a sacked minister for wartime elections.

France and the UK have expressed hope that they can help Ukraine set up a Storm Shadow production line by the end of the year.

Ukraine is capable of designing and manufacturing longer-range missile systems, including the Neptune and Flamingo cruise missiles.

The United Kingdom is set to share classified weapons information with Ukraine to enable it to produce its own version of the Storm Shadow long-range cruise missile.

Industry sources told the Reuters news agency that Russia was forced to halt operations at the Perm oil refinery the same day.

Under the decree, ownership powers would transfer to Russia’s Federal Agency for State Property Management or another designated body.

An attack last week damaged key processing units at the Perm oil refinery.

Tajikistan signed a deal with Iran to provide 2.5 million tonnes of oil, petrol and diesel.

Tajikistan's deputy energy minister said the government had amassed fuel reserves that would last at least 60 days.

Uzbekistan processes its own oil into petrol satisfying about two-thirds of its needs.

Storm Shadow missiles incorporate some sensitive US technologies, meaning some aspects of supply or transfer may still require US approval.

Keir Giles said Ukraine is likely to have a good capacity for producing sophisticated weapon systems once it has the blueprints.

US President Donald Trump said handing over Patriot interceptor technology to Ukraine was 'a hard thing to give away'.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian economic targets open a "Pandora’s box."

Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day on Monday.

European leaders joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv for Independence Day events.

Andy Burnham was welcomed at Kyiv Railway Station by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.

Russia accused the UK of being a participant in the war on Ukraine's side.

Andy Burnham announced that the UK would grant Kyiv access to long-range cruise-missile technology.

Ozon workers in Adygeysk, in the Adygea region, and Nevinnomyssk, in the Stavropol region, were evacuated.

Ozon said a fire broke out at a logistics centre in Makhachkala, Dagestan, following a drone attack at around 05:00 local time on Monday.

Russia's children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said the children killed in Krasnodar were aged 13, 15 and 16, and six more children had been taken to hospital.

Leaders from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway attended a flag-raising ceremony in Kyiv on Ukraine's National Flag Day.

Zelenskyy said holding an election during the war would pose enormous risks and could split Ukraine apart.

Anti-corruption investigators named a deputy head of the presidential office among suspects in a money-laundering case, and investigators do not believe Zelenskyy was involved.

A senior official in Zelensky's office was dismissed after being accused of involvement in the bail misappropriation scheme.

Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau reported discovering an illicit scheme to misappropriate over $3m to post bail for an ex-energy minister accused of money laundering.

Fedorov stated he possessed no evidence showing that President Zelensky was personally corrupt.

The Russian embassy in the UK accused Britain of "deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis".

Zelensky was the first foreign leader to be welcomed to Downing Street after Burnham became prime minister in July.

Russia confirmed its ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, had left his post in London in recent weeks.

National Flag Day was established in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union to commemorate the adoption of the tricolour.

Russia marked National Flag Day with official ceremonies and celebrations across the country.

A public event honoring the Russian tricolour took place in St Petersburg on Saturday.

Zelensky said that if the US supplied up to 10% of its Patriot missile stocks to Ukraine, Kyiv would pay for them.

Zelensky said there was no Russian troop presence yet in the Bryansk region but Ukrainian intelligence could see military equipment along the borders with the Russian Federation.

Russian parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place in September 2026.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended National Flag Day ceremonies in Kyiv.

Ukraine's National Flag Day was established as a national holiday on August 23, 2004, one day before Independence Day.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the flag symbolizes what is most precious to thousands of soldiers defending Ukraine.

Oleksandr Hanzha, governor of Dnipropetrovsk, confirmed the death toll in Kryvyi Rih had risen to 16, with more than 130 wounded, including 22 children.

Ukraine is expected to receive the Italo-French SAMP/T-NG missile defence system, believed capable of downing ballistic missiles.

A Russian drone attack on a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih on Friday killed 16 people and wounded about 130.

Kryvyi Rih is President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown.

Ukraine's military said it struck an oil refinery in Russia's Samara region.

A fire covering an area of about 9,000 square meters at the shopping centre has been extinguished.

Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha stated that four people remained missing after the shopping center attack in Kryvyi Rih.

Authorities in Russia's Krasnodar region reported that three people, including two children, were killed and two adults were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike.

Russia's Defense Ministry stated that Russian forces struck a locomotive depot.