Putin said peace with Ukraine remains possible while calling Kyiv’s warning on Russian airspace “state terrorism,” as NATO flags fresh risks.

A Coca-Cola factory in Kyiv was struck in a drone attack, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called "a clear Russian signal to America." The strike on the facility occurred on Thursday during the eighth consecutive day of attacks across the Kyiv region, injuring at least 13 people, according to local authorities.

Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up, breeding ceaseless human suffering. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken.

Russian drones tore into central ⁠Kyiv ⁠on Wednesday morning, wounding 11 people and damaging ⁠residential and university buildings on the seventh day of nearly round-the-clock attacks that have upended daily life ​in Ukraine's capital.

President Sandu's national security advisor, Stanislav Secrieru, says Russia's strikes on Ukrainian-Moldovan border infrastructure aim to sever vital grain export corridors to European markets.

The planned Black Sea Fleet naval base in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, was first revealed in 2023.

Indian PM Narendra Modi has urged Russia to end the Ukraine war and to cease hostilities.

While much of the city bears the scars of five years of war, below the ground at Kharkiv Lyceum No. 24, everything is new and ready to accommodate 1,000 children.