H.R. 5334 passed the Senate 86-11 and the House 262-159 in honor of the senator who died in July. It bars new U.S. investment in Russia until Ukraine accepts a peace deal and extends Iran sanctions to 2031. A former State Department sanctions chief says Trump 'missed a chance to send a message to Putin.'
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.'
WatchFifty-eight Democrats crossed over and seven Republicans defected. Hakeem Jeffries said Trump 'cannot be entrusted' with new tariff power. The bill now goes to a president who has spent months saying he wanted it.
Microscopy and 3D models of 18 figurines from the Mizyn campsite show the Schreger and Owen lines inside ivory were copied onto the surface, an eastern tradition that predates Western Europe's.
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.
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.
In his first public appearance since leaving the Pentagon, Driscoll praised the DELTA platform and warned that the U.S. plans to buy 300,000 drones a year while Ukraine builds 7 to 10 million.
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.
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.
The act lets the president impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas. The House is on recess and will not vote before September.
Nizhnekamsk, in Tatarstan, was hit Monday morning in what regional authorities called a massive attack on industrial and civilian sites.
The blast went off at 5 a.m. Saturday about 200 meters from a Romanian compressor station on the Trans-Balkan line. Bulgaria's defense ministry says the wreckage looks Ukrainian.
H.R. 5334 would let the president tariff the biggest buyers of Russian oil, blacklist Moscow's shadow fleet and extend Iran sanctions. Rand Paul gets one amendment vote first.
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.
Between 30% and 40% of the remains recovered in two abandoned villages in western Ukraine belonged to children. None have been identified yet.
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.
The dismissal of 35-year-old Mykhailo Fedorov, an architect of Ukraine's battlefield drone program, drew crowds into the streets of several cities in a startling show of public anger.
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.
The revised measure would let President Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas — including China and India — and slap mandatory sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
Nearly 7,600 troops, hundreds of European soldiers and dozens of aircraft filed down the Champs-Elysees in a display Paris cast as proof of 'Europe's strategic awakening' — Macron's final military parade as president.
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 Ukrainian president said the country is 'changing its political strategy,' assigning senior figures to steer relations with key partners in the fourth major cabinet overhaul since Russia's full-scale invasion.
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.
Under heavy pressure from President Trump, alliance leaders unveiled more than $50 billion in new weapons purchases and reaffirmed a path toward 5% of GDP on defense by 2035.
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 alliance's Ankara summit produced a sweeping spending target, tens of billions for Ukraine and a sidelines meeting between Trump and Syria's new president — even as the Iran crisis loomed over the talks.
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.
WatchThe president touched down in Ankara as allies openly feuded over America's strikes on Iran and a new 5% defense-spending demand, with Russia's overnight assault on Kyiv hanging over the talks.
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.
With a major adversary no longer blocking progress, Ukraine begins formal negotiations to join the European Union, though challenges remain.
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