The Central Election Commission put turnout at 56.66% and reported more than 3,000 waves of DDoS attacks on election infrastructure. Voting was also held in occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which Kyiv called a 'farce.' Final results are not due before Sept. 25.
WatchMayor Sergei Sobyanin called it the largest attack on Moscow of the war and said air defenses downed more than 1,600 drones since Saturday, 450 of them headed for the capital. Zelenskyy said domestically built Flamingo and Pelican missiles hit 'oil and logistics' targets worth 'billions of dollars that sustain the war machine.'
Five men, including two Cubans and a 22-year-old Venezuelan, were charged in Manhattan with financing terrorism and murder for hire. All of them are believed to be in Russia.
Denmark summoned Moscow's ambassador and called the Admiral Kasatonov's action 'reckless.' Hours later, an Italian NATO jet shot down a drone over Lithuania that likely came from Belarus.
WatchAir Force Secretary Troy Meink told a conference in Maryland that the Space Force now has 'on-orbit space control weapons.' He would not say what they are, how many there are or when they went up, and said the phrasing was 'very well thought out.'
WatchUkraine's rail operator says it is 'highly probable' the intended target was the diplomatic train carrying Johnson, Carl Bildt and EU security advisers home from a Kyiv conference. Nobody was hurt. The strike came inside a 453-drone overnight barrage that killed six people across Ukraine.
ProPublica found that Umar Kremlev, the 43-year-old head of the International Boxing Association who received the Order of Friendship from Putin in May, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the May 24 festivities. Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson called it 'an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend.'
The president blamed the world's diesel crisis on the Ukraine war rather than his own war on Iran. Zelenskyy said any halt has to last past Russia's 'elections' and not collapse the moment fuel prices ease.
Speaking at his golf course in Ireland, the president said Ukraine can hit other targets but not refineries because the strikes are 'hurting the world.' U.S. diesel topped $6 a gallon on Friday.
Speaking at the BRICS summit in India, the Russian president drew a red line around a European peacekeeping force while insisting Moscow poses 'no such threat' to Europe. Overnight attacks hit Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih and Kramatorsk.
WatchThe two American envoys called Sunday's talks substantive and said they were encouraged. Moscow and Kyiv agreed to stop firing at each other's capitals for the length of the visit, and nothing more.
Ukraine's General Staff says the overnight raid also hit an airfield, a radar station and two Pantsir-S1 systems in Rostov Oblast. It came during a pause both sides had agreed to observe over their capitals.
WatchUkraine's military stood down at midnight under a truce arranged as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow. The shooting did not stop.
WatchThe Kremlin said the pause begins at midnight Saturday and is tied to the American delegation's plan to visit the Ukrainian capital on Sunday. Russian missiles hit two airports outside Kyiv hours before the announcement.
The Russian president, speaking at an economic forum in the far east, said the U.S. and China are ready to back a settlement. Zelenskyy said American negotiators will visit both Moscow and Kyiv.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the device found at Leipzig/Halle Airport on August 4 matched known Russian hybrid operations. Putin, speaking in Kyrgyzstan, said the evidence "has been planted."
At least 37 people were killed and about 50 apartment buildings damaged after the strike set off secondary explosions. Ukraine's president says ammunition was being stored where the law forbids it.
Defense and NATO officials told the AP that American forces in Europe could not stop a sustained Russian ballistic missile attack. The Pentagon says the reports are false.
The West Siberian Petrochemical Complex in Tobolsk lost its central gas fractionation unit to a drone strike on Monday. It is also the only place in Russia that makes maleic anhydride, a feedstock for aircraft and drone composites.
Robert Gilman, 32, was arrested on a train in Voronezh in January 2022 and watched a three-and-a-half-year sentence grow to ten. He was flown out Tuesday on a State Department plane with his mother beside him.
After 18 months of negotiation, Syria's Foreign Ministry says Moscow's only two military bases outside the former Soviet Union will become 'joint training and capacity-building centres.'
Nizhnekamsk, in Tatarstan, was hit Monday morning in what regional authorities called a massive attack on industrial and civilian sites.
WatchA new assessment reported by The Wall Street Journal concludes the Kremlin's goal would be to fracture the alliance, not seize territory. A full ground invasion is judged the least likely option because it would plainly trigger Article 5.
Zelensky said allied interceptor deliveries have collapsed across the whole first half of 2026, blamed the Middle East war, and would not rule out that the squeeze is meant to push Kyiv toward a deal.
Ukrainian military intelligence says roughly 90 North Korean personnel will be embedded in Russia's 112th Missile Brigade with six launchers. Ukraine's thinnest defensive layer is exactly the one those weapons are built to beat.
Zelenskyy said the casualties were a direct consequence of Ukraine running out of Patriot interceptors, the only weapon in its arsenal that can stop a ballistic missile.
WatchVideo verified by Reuters shows the aircraft veering hard and diving into sunbathers near the Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik. Russia calls it a deliberate attack on civilians; Ukraine says Russian air defense shot the drone down onto the crowd.
Drones struck three warehouses across Russia overnight, two of them run by e-commerce giant Wildberries. Russian bombs killed two children and an elderly woman in Sumy the same night.
Boris Nadezhdin, barred as a 'foreign agent' from September's parliamentary elections, announced Monday that he has left Russia for France.
The explosion outside Balzi Rossi on Kudrinskaya Square killed the security guard who blocked her, a customer, and the woman herself, and injured 21 others during a private banquet.
WatchMore than ten explosions rolled across the Ukrainian capital overnight. At least 27 people were wounded, four of them children, in the second deadly barrage on Ukraine in two days.
NATO scrambled fighter jets after a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Polish airspace and came down in a field in Lublin province. Six members of one family, including three children, were killed near Kryvyi Rih.
Ukraine says it has tracked Russian orbital surveillance of four Gulf air bases in a single 24-hour window, with the imagery surfacing in Iranian hands before and after strikes on American troops.
A ballistic missile struck a closed-door drone exhibition in the Kyiv region on Friday. Ukraine's prosecutor general has opened two criminal cases — one against Russia, and one into who decided to hold the event at all.
The U.S. secretary of state and Russia's foreign minister held roughly 35 minutes of closed-door talks on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit, as Washington tries to revive Ukraine peace efforts.
WatchPresident Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed his top general and named Mykhailo Drapatyi as Ukraine's new commander-in-chief, bowing to street demonstrations that had convulsed the capital for days.
Three cruise missiles hit the Guinea-Bissau-flagged MV Golden Leo as it departed Odesa carrying corn, killing at least 10 people, including four Indian nationals, Ukrainian and Indian officials said.
WatchOvernight strikes ignited an oil depot and battered sprawling logistics hubs south of the capital, wounding at least 10 people as President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to keep hammering Russia's war economy.
Vladimir Putin thanked Pyongyang for backing his war in Ukraine as Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui met Sergey Lavrov, a visit with no obvious occasion that has stirred summit speculation.
Kyiv said its Sargan-3000 naval drone destroyed the patrol ship Izumrud as it sat docked at Gelendzhik, striking deep inside waters Moscow considered safe harbor.
Russian long-range strikes and swarms of short-range drones killed at least 293 civilians and wounded nearly 2,000, surpassing a grim record set only a month earlier.
Meeting in Paris, ten countries pledged a shared ballistic-missile defense drawing on Ukraine's battlefield experience, as Moscow denounced 'a coalition of warmongers.'
The surprise announcement at the NATO summit in Ankara would let Kyiv manufacture the prized air-defense interceptors it has begged for — but standing up production could take months while Russian strikes grind on.
Kyiv's long-range drone campaign reached 'industrial scale,' striking oil tankers, the giant Omsk refinery and military airfields as fuel lines snaked outside Russian gas stations.
Meeting Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara, the president offered Kyiv the right to manufacture the prized air-defense missiles it has long begged for.
The decision unwinds a decade of sanctions rooted in state-sponsored doping and the invasion of Ukraine, though Russia's flag, anthem and officials remain barred and individual sports federations get the final say.
One of the largest barrages of the war exposed cracks in Ukraine's Patriot-dependent air defenses as a global shortage of interceptors — worsened by the Middle East conflict — begins to bite.
One of the world's biggest oil exporters is now moving to buy gasoline from abroad as relentless drone strikes cripple refining capacity, dry up pumps and spark hours-long lines even in Moscow.
Moscow says its forces have taken one of the last Ukrainian bastions guarding the road to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. Kyiv rejects the claim, and independent verification of the front line is not possible.
Moscow hurled nearly 570 missiles and drones — including hypersonic Zircon and Iskander ballistic missiles — at residential districts, forcing tens of thousands into subway shelters.
A barrage of ballistic missiles and attack drones tore through civilian neighborhoods in the southern Ukrainian city, reigniting fears over the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Kyiv's special forces collapsed a span of the railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal, then struck again to wreck the repair crews sent to fix it, severing a vital Russian supply line.
Russian air defenses reported shooting down at least 194 drones over the capital region overnight, but strikes set the Kapotnya refinery ablaze and forced every major Moscow airport to halt flights.
Moscow launched 70 missiles and more than 600 drones overnight, killing five emergency workers in a 'double-tap' strike and igniting the roof of a UNESCO-listed cathedral.
U.K. troops detained a sanctioned oil tanker off England's south coast on Sunday in what London called the first British-led operation of its kind against Moscow's sanctions-busting fleet.
Long-range Ukrainian drones struck the Taneko and Taif-NK refineries in Tatarstan, part of a campaign that has driven Russian refining to its lowest level since 2009.
Britain's defense ministry confirms this marks the first time British forces have acted independently to intercept vessels in Russia's sanctions-evading fleet.
New analysis shows how major powers projected centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, leading to deadlocked wars that have ensnared both superpowers in prolonged conflicts.
A barrage of 117 drones and a strike on an Odesa solar plant came as Brussels readied formal membership negotiations with Kyiv and Moldova set to begin June 15.
American-made air defense interceptors becoming critically depleted as Moscow escalates missile strikes.
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