Russia launched a large-scale aerial assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, marking a second consecutive night of ferocious attacks on the country, as Russia ramps up its bombardment more than three years into the war.

A Russian drone barrage targeted the center of Kharkiv on Friday, injuring nine people and damaging a maternity hospital in Ukraine's second-largest city, officials said.

Ukraine behind new pipeline explosion in Siberia that supplies Russian military-industrial complex, source claims * Russian troops tasked to create 10-kilometer buffer zone in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine's spy chief says * Ukrainian drone strikes reported at Russian MiG plant,

Russia pounded Ukraine's capital with another major missile and drone attack overnight into Thursday, killing at least two people and causing fires across Kyiv a day after the heaviest drone attack so far in the more than three-year war,

US top diplomat Marco Rubio held "frank" talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Malaysia over the Ukraine war. The US criticised Russia’s lack of flexibility, while Lavrov shared new ideas Rubio will present to Trump.