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Ukraine wants more air defence missiles, warning if they lose control of the skies the country will be pounded into the ground.

More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released as part of a major Easter exchange with Russia, a top official said Sunday.

The construction of barbed-wired fence along Finland’s border with Russia – primarily meant to curb illegal migration – has broken ground.

Poland said that it will temporarily prohibit food imports from Ukraine to protect local farmers from having their prices undercut.

Russian President Putin signed a bill to allow authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the war in Ukraine.

German FM Baerbock urged Beijing to ask “the Russian aggressor to stop the war” in Ukraine, saying “no other country has more influence”.

The rollout of an innovative precision strike munition has seen a troubled start in Ukraine, with Russian interference blamed for dud drops.

Allegedly leaked U.S. intel that claims Western special forces on the ground in Ukraine have “a serious level of innacuracy”, the UK said. 

Controversial diplomat demanded more equipment, said Germany has been “small-minded” in not working towards strategic victory.

Ukraine has called up the music of legendary Australian rock band AC/DC as it pushes Canberra to donate even more fighting vehicles to assist in its war against Russia.

The Pentagon appears to be in full damage control mode after the discovery of leaked intelligence that revealed closely guarded details regarding the Ukraine War as well as potentially politically embarrassing assertions about close allies.

Russia’s “high priority” to gaining ground near Donetsk, a British intelligence says, noting “minimal gains” despite “significant resources”. 

Farmers in Romania and Bulgaria staged protests against the EU allowing Ukrainian grain to flood their markets and undercut local prices.

Rare moment of agreement between Russian and Ukrainian state media over the authenticity of a cache of allegedly leaked U.S. intel documents.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov threatened to abandon a landmark grain deal with Ukraine if obstacles to Moscow’s exports remained.

Ukraine’s national securitychief warned that the West must prepare for the collapse and fragmentation of Russia similar to the Soviet Union.

The U.S. government is to pump another $2.6 billion worth of munitions into Ukraine, Kyiv officials confirmed Monday.

Calls for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are “pure cynicism” a Kyiv government official claimed Saturday.

reland has been completely overwhelmed by migrant arrivals with an emergency housing plan for would-be asylum seekers having now fallen through.

Ukraine’s top security agency notified a top Orthodox priest Saturday that he was suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression.

Russia cannot rebuild its “combat power” with fresh personnel alone, according to British intelligence, due to a lack of ammunition and equipment.  

A company linked to Russia is set to help continue the work of a major nuclear project operating in Germany.

Authorities in Kyiv have reportedly expelled a large number of Christian monks from a historic monastery in the country amid claims they are “pro-Russian”.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that defeat in Bakhmut, despite the narrative that it is strategically unimportant, would result in the international community and a “tired” Ukrainian public pressuring him to compromise with Russia – which he does not want to do.

Russia’s casualties including dead and wounded in Ukraine is on the road to hitting a quarter-million people, the United Kingdom says.

A TikTok data centre is using so much electricity there isn’t any spare to power the expansion of an arms manufacturing plant, they claim. 

There will be no Ukrainian counter-offensive until Kyiv’s Western “partners” send more weapons and ammunition, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.

Ancient T-54 and T-55 tanks have been removed from storage and may soon be joining the slightly less ancient T-62s that Russia has already dusted off for use in Ukraine.

Budapest has been irked by “the very disrespectful behaviour of the political elites of [Finland and Sweden] towards Hungary.”

The Kremlin cites the termination of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s lease as further proof that Russia’s actions over the past year in Ukraine are justified — claiming that Russia is defending a beleaguered Orthodox population.

Some recruits were offered about $100 a day for “involvement in active offensive operations” and $650 “for each kilometre of advancement within assault teams.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The top commander of Ukraine’s military said Saturday that his forces are pushing back against Russian troops in the long and grinding battle for the town of Bakhmut, and British military intelligence says Russia appears to be moving to a defensive strategy in eastern Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine have been accused of torturing and executing prisoners of war over the past year by the United Nations.

Russia’s strenuous efforts to capture Bakhmut, in the Donetsk Oblast, has “largely stalled”, according to British intelligence, which cited the “extreme attrition” of the Kremlin’s forces in the fight for the shattered city. 

NATO member Hungary has said it does not support Britain sending depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine, warning it could cause unwanted “escalation”.