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

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault with hundreds of drones and missiles, lasting nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.

Volodymyr Zelensky said a devastating drone attack on Kyiv by Russian forces showed Vladimir Putin “doesn’t want peace” ahead of crunch talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump. The Ukrainian president and US leader will meet in Florida on Sunday to continue peace talks after Zelensky said a peace agreement was “90 per cent ready”.

Air raid alerts were issued across the country, including in Kyiv, where one person was killed. Others were killed in Khmelnytskyy, western Ukraine, and the central Zhytomyr region.

The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. The revised version includes the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression.

These are the key developments from day 1,402 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is where things stand on Saturday, December 27:

The recapture of the eastern city will come as a humiliating blow to Vladimir Putin and his army high command.

A CAR bomb in a quiet Moscow district has killed one of Vladimir Putin’s top generals, making him the third senior Russian military leader to die this year. It marks the latest killing in a

Reams have been written about the strategies in the recent India-Pakistan border conflict. But fewer words have been expended on a core aspect of this war: drones—their use; their different deployments by the two countries; the cost to each country ...

President Donald Trump said he will call the final shots on any Ukraine-Russia peace deal ahead of a reported meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.