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.

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.

Russia says it will shutter German cultural centers across the country. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the move Thursday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

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.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will keep any conversation with Vladimir Putin short if he comes face-to-face with the Russian president at the G20 summit later this year.

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

The FIA was wrong to lift the ban on Russian competitors because nothing has changed since it was imposed, the Ukrainian Minister for Youth and Sport says.

The warning comes amid growing concerns over Moscow's hybrid operations as Germany accused Russia of attempting a drone attack at Leipzig Airport in August.