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Senior Kremlin security official Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released for publication on Monday the world is getting very dangerous and needs to calm down, adding Russia is an oasis of sanity and does not want a global conflict.

Putin was playing a game by inviting his counterpart to Moscow, Zelensky said, making an equally facetious reciprocal invitation to Kyiv. 

Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as Moscow gives no public sign that it’s willing to end the invasion of its neighbor anytime soon.

New statistics about attacks on recruitment sergeants in Ukraine prompted a rant against “traitors” by a Kyiv recruitment office. 

Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, overnight, with at least six people killed in strikes that hit city buildings and energy infrastructure. A Ukrainian attack on southern Russia killed three people and damaged homes, authorities said.

More of everything is barely enough to help keep Ukraine fighting off the predations of Russia. That is the conclusion delivered by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday as he renewed his plea for more weapons a day after Russian strikes on Kyiv killed seven people.

Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said early Sunday.

Power was restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv on Saturday, a day after Russia launched major attacks on the Ukrainian power grid that caused blackouts across much of the country, and European leaders agreed to proceed toward using hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine’s war effort.

Russia hit Ukraine’s capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began, killing at least two people and leaving smoke rising from the roof of a key government building.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was still interested in peace negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and invited to hold such a meeting in Moscow. Zelensky is unlikely to accept the invitation, both out of concern for his own safety, and anger at Putin’s steadily escalating attacks on Ukrainian cities.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday criticized the China-hosted Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit for failing to criticize the Russian invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin was an honored guest at the event.

The Kyiv regional office of a UK government body has been “severely damaged” by two missiles that struck the same location seconds apart.

Russian drone and missile attack included a rare strike in the center of the city killed at least 14 people and wounded 48.

Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets on Tuesday to protest a contentious law signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky that severely weakened the country’s top anti-corruption agencies.

Ukraine’s capital came under a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack overnight and into early Saturday that left at least 15 people injured, according to Ukrainian officials. Explosions and machine gun fire were heard throughout Kyiv as many sought shelter in subway stations.

One person was killed Sunday as Russian air strikes hit the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, while the death toll from Friday’s deadly attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih continued to rise.

European leaders flocked to Ukraine on Monday to pledge their support on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, badly rattled by President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Russia and public feud with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least four people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones.

A Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Friday killed at least one person and injured nine others, officials said. Moscow claimed it was in response to a Ukrainian strike on Russian soil using American-made weapons.

The United States confirmed Tuesday it has granted $20 billion in funds for Ukraine backed by proceeds earned on frozen Russian assets. The cash is part of a $50 billion G7 support package and comes 40 days before President Joe Biden departs the White House.

Putin said strikes into Russia using Western missiles will “of course” be answered, with “decision-making centers in Kyiv” a target. 

Drone strike killed a teenager in Kyiv during a nighttime barrage on the Ukrainian capital that lasted for hours, local officials said.

Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, local media reported Saturday.

Ukraine´s air defenses battled an overnight Russian aerial attack on the capital Kyiv for five hours, officials said Thursday.

Americans who had contact with the suspect in an alleged failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, were so alarmed by his erratic behavior in Ukraine that they alerted U.S. officials, who apparently did very little with the warnings.

The alleged would-be assassin who attempted to kill former President Donald Trump on Sunday, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was once photographed with Biden-Harris administration appointee celebrity chef José Andrés in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Russia has massed large numbers of troops back on its own territory in a bid to control and reverse Ukraine’s gains into Russian Kursk.

Ukraine launched a major drone attack against Moscow and several other Russian cities in one of the largest Ukrainian strikes of the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used a meeting Friday with top United States military leaders and 50 partner nations to call for yet more weaponry even as the Biden administration confirmed it would rush another $250 million in security assistance to Kyiv.

Ukraine was given approval Thursday to use its U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to strike deep inside Russian territory.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, touching base with the Russian leader three days after returning from a visit to Ukraine.

Vitali Klitschko suggested that Zelensky hold a referendum to secure “popular legitimacy” for either ending or continuing the war with Russia

Organizers of the KyivPride March announced on Thursday that the first gay pride event in the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the Russian invasion will be held on June 16.

Air defenses shot down all the incoming missiles, though 13 people including a child were injured by falling wreckage, Ukraine said.

Half of promised Western military aid to Kyiv is failing to be delivered on time, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov despaired on Sunday as he issued a call for benefactors to make haste to save his country from potential ruin.