Both sides are finding it increasingly difficult to finance the conflict in Ukraine. Russia’s 2027 budget envisions more debt, higher taxes and lower social benefits.

Europe is preparing for “severe” Russian hybrid attacks, said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as Vladimir Putin threatened that his conflict with the west could reach a “fatal point of no return”. Russia’s escalating rhetoric underscores a tenser phase of the war in Ukraine,

Putin warned the West he would deploy nuclear weapons if necessary to defend the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.

Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine’s data centers and communications infrastructure, targeting facilities in Kyiv.

Russia is stockpiling weapons so that it can launch intensified late-autumn and winter barrages, analysts and Ukrainian officials said.

Six of the seven crew members on board died in the crash in Far Eastern Amur, the defense ministry said.

Latvia's staunchly pro-Ukraine Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs is likely to retain power after Saturday's national election, as many voters grow wary of potential Russian aggression amid airspace incursions that brought down the previous coalition.

The Pivdennyi bridge came under fire as a metro train was travelling across - the first such attack on Kyiv's bridges.