Air raid alerts were issued across the country, including in Kyiv, where one person was killed. Others were killed in Khmelnytskyy, western Ukraine, and the central Zhytomyr region.

The recapture of the eastern city will come as a humiliating blow to Vladimir Putin and his army high command.

These are the key developments from day 1,400 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is where things stand on Thursday, December 25: An explosion in Moscow killed three people, including two police officers, just days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking Russian general in the same area of the capital.

Russia has ordered a winter troop surge to break the stalemate in Ukraine, but Ukrainian drone attacks on logistics and resupply channels will undermine this offensive.

The vessel is part of Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" - unregulated ships that Kyiv says are exporting large quantities of oil despite Western sanctions.

Ukraine's Zelensky can leave Brussels relieved he has staved off bankruptcy, Belgium can claim victory for protecting Euroclear, where Russia's frozen billions are held, and the EU collectively can be happy it's found a deal.

Reams have been written about the strategies in the recent India-Pakistan border conflict. But fewer words have been expended on a core aspect of this war: drones—their use; their different deployments by the two countries; the cost to each country ...

Russian officials have repeatedly framed their slow battlefield gains as evidence of Moscow's "inevitable" victory, in the words of Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov during a