Russia and Ukraine traded hundreds of prisoners of war on Wednesday, just a week after Moscow said Kyiv had shot down a plane carrying captured Ukrainian soldiers to an exchange.
Russia has carried out a wave of attacks on Ukraine, killing 18 people and injuring more than 130, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said, with a sports club in central Kyiv one of several civilian buildings damaged.
Western and Ukrainian officials have said that if the United States and Europe do not resume their financial support to Kiev, there is a possibility that the Ukrainian government will shut down due to lack of funds.
The number of fatalities in the Ukrainian shelling of a busy market in Donetsk has climbed to at least 25, Denis Pushilin, the leader of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic said.
More than 80 countries held talks on Sunday seeking common ground on Ukraine’s peace formula, as the Swiss co-hosts admitted that including Russia in negotiations remains some way off.
Ukraine suffered a large Russian missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, while its air defenses were able to down a far lower proportion of them than usual.
Yury Latsenko, the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said that the authorities of this country should openly and honestly admit that 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war with Russia.
Following the continuation of the war between Moscow and Kiev, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has proposed to the government to reduce the age of people who want to join the ranks of the country's armed forces from 27 years to 25 years.
Ukrainian officials say that Russia resumed its missile attacks on Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and its surrounding areas on "Saturday, 20 Scorpio" after weeks.
Russia, which was ousted from the UN Human Rights Council after its forces invaded Ukraine, will attempt a return to the body on Tuesday an uncertain move that will provide a gauge of its international support.
Seven people, including a six-year-old child, were killed and 129 wounded when a Russian missile struck a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia announced today (Friday), a Ukrainian drone intended to attack targets in Moscow and neighboring areas was shot down by the Russian air defense and fell near the "Krasnopressenskaya Embarkation" area in Moscow. No casualties or fires were reported from the crash.
Russian air strikes hit two western regions of Ukraine bordering NATO member Poland and other areas on Tuesday, killing three people in a factory and wounding more than a dozen, Ukrainian officials said.
The Russian ambassador in Afghanistan pointed out that the Ukrainian government has increased its terrorist activities after the failure of its counter-attack, which was funded by NATO member countries and received cluster bombs from the West, and said that such actions by Ukraine deepen the crisis. And the prospects for a peaceful resolution rule ...
While describing the US government as a liar, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington itself ordered Kiev to stop the peace talks, but still held Moscow responsible for the lack of negotiations.