The 10-hour missile and drone barrage directed at Ukraine's capital killed two people and left 32 injured, local authorities say.

Russia carried out one of this year’s longest sustained attacks on Ukraine overnight, the day before Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in Florida, as efforts continue to end the nearly four-year war in Eastern Europe.

President Emmanuel Macron has previously denied that Laurent Vinatier worked for the French state and has described his arrest as part of a misinformation campaign by Moscow.

Western sanctions have failed to turn the uber-rich into opponents, and Putin's policies have turned them into silent backers.

Vladimir Putin dismissed Donald Trump's peace efforts as Russia launched a deadly strike on Kyiv just hours before the high-stakes summit between Trump and President Zelenskyy.

Widespread aerial attacks marked Christmas 2025 in the Russia-Ukraine war, as Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanged drone and missile strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure in border regions. The escalation followed renewed international peace talks, with negotiators struggling to overcome divides between Moscow and Kyiv.

As we've been reporting, earlier President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia sent 500 drones as well as 40 missiles in the attack on Kyiv. The city's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said emergency power outage schedules are now in place while "4,000 residential buildings in the capital are without heat due to damage to the power supply system".

Russia's second largest bank VTB maintained its net profit target of 500 billion roubles ($6.4 billion) for 2025 after reporting results for January-November on Friday ‍and saying it was engaged in restructuring talks with