A recent drone attack by Russia targeted a pharmaceutical warehouse owned by the Indian Kusum Group in Sumy, Ukraine, resulting in one death. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strike.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has arrived in Kyiv to show support as Russia intensifies attacks on Ukrainian cities

President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine will keep striking Russian refineries despite Trump's calls to spare energy targets.

Hospitals have reportedly closed for a three-week quarantine after a laboratory worker died from an "unspecified form of plague" in Russia. According to reports from the independent media outlet Baikal People, hospitals in the Irkutsk region of Russia have been closed for a three-week quarantine.

Oct 4 (Reuters) - Russia will intensify strikes on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on ​Sunday, responding to an interview with Ukrainian ​President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he vowed ⁠increased attacks on Russian refineries.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, told Reuters that attacks on Russian oil refineries would increase in retaliation for Russia’s campaign to cripple Kyiv and other ​Ukrainian cities. Early returns suggested that United List won Latvia’s parliamentary election with an unexpectedly high 37% of the vote.

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West against escalating the war in Ukraine, saying Moscow is prepared to use “all weapons” in its arsenal — including nuclear — if its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad comes under attack.

A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks

It called the attempt to crash the plane “a terrorist act”. American and Saudi media identified the co-pilot as an Omani citizen named Hamam al-Hammami, and quoted officials, diplomats and his now-deleted X account showing he held extreme Islamist views.

The war will end with the victory of Ukraine,” one demographer told NBC News. “Otherwise there will be no Ukraine, otherwise there is nothing to talk about.”