Russia has launched a new barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine, killing at least two people.
Vladimir Putin’s forces launched 597 drones and 26 missiles targeting the west of the country on Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram.
At least two people were killed in the city of Chernivtsi on the border with Romania. Western Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Lutsk, and Chernivtsi suffered the most due to the Russian attacks, and other Ukrainian regions were also hit, foreign minister Andriy Sybiha said. "Russia continues to escalate its terror,” he said in a post on X.
The attack comes as Donald Trump is expected to send weapons to Kyiv.
The US president said he is set to make a “major statement” on Russia on Monday as he grows frustrated with the Mr Putin amid intensified attacks on Ukraine.
“We’re sending weapons to Nato, and Nato is paying for those weapons, 100 per cent,” Mr Trump told NBC News.
The US president has also issued an ominous warning to the Russian president after a maternity ward in Kharkiv was damaged in a drone strike. “You'll be seeing things happen,” he said.
Mr Zelensky confirmed that among the nine wounded were women in the hospital – “mothers with newborns, women recovering from surgery”.
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Key Points
- Russia launches 597 drones and 26 missiles on Ukraine, Zelensky says
- US has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, Zelensky says
- Trump plans major statement on Russia amid frustration with Putin
- Ukrainian intelligence officer shot dead in Kyiv car park
- Maternity hospital in Kharkiv attacked
- Trump says US to supply weapons to Ukraine via Nato
Russia launches 597 drones and 26 missiles on Ukraine, Zelensky says
08:41
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Tara Cobham
Russia launched 597 drones and 26 missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram.
Watch: Trump's warning to Putin after Russia drones hit maternity ward
08:30
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Tara Cobham
Russian foreign minister arrives in North Korea to discuss Ukraine conflict, state media reports
08:11
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Tara Cobham
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in North Korea on Friday, North Korea's state media KCNA said on Saturday, the latest visit by a senior Russian official to the isolated state amid warming ties between the countries.
Lavrov's visit, scheduled to Sunday, includes a meeting between the countries' foreign ministers, KCNA reported.
Lavrov flew out of the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur following the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting and arrived in Wonsan, North Korea’s eastern coastal city, which is home to a recently opened resort and known for its missile and naval facilities.
Lavrov's visit is the latest high-level meeting between the two countries amid a dramatic upgrading of their strategic cooperation that now includes a mutual defence pact.
The South Korean intelligence service has said North Korea may be preparing to deploy additional troops in July or August, after sending more than 10,000 soldiers to fight with Russia in the war against Ukraine.
North Korea has agreed to dispatch 6,000 military engineers and builders for reconstruction in Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces launched a mass cross-border incursion nearly a year ago.
Russian news agencies also reported Lavrov's arrival and said after North Korea he is expected to travel to China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting, which is set to take place on Monday and Tuesday.
Russia's state TASS news agency said Lavrov and his North Korean counterpart, Choi Son Hui, would discuss the 40-month-old Ukraine conflict and the situation on the Korean peninsula.
Russia's drones and missile barrage targets Ukraine's west killing two
08:05
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Tara Cobham
Russia launched a new barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Saturday, targeting the west of the country and killing at least two people in the city of Chernivtsi on the border with Romania.
Western Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Lutsk, and Chernivtsi suffered the most due to the Russian attacks, and other Ukrainian regions were also hit, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said.
"Russia continues to escalate its terror, launching another barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles, damaging residential areas, killing and injuring civilians," Sybiha said in a post on X, reiterating the call for stronger sanctions against Moscow. "Russia’s war machine produces hundreds of means of terror per day. Its scale poses a threat not only to Ukraine, but to the entire transatlantic community."
Ruslan Zaparaniuk, the governor of the Chernivetskyi region, said that two people were killed and 14 others wounded as Russian drones and a missile struck the city, located about 40 kilometres (24 miles) from Ukraine's border with Romania.
Several fires broke out across the city, and residential houses and administrative buildings were damaged, regional officials said.
In the city of Lviv, on Ukraine's border with Poland, 46 residential houses, a university building, the city's courts, and about 20 buildings housing small and medium-sized businesses were damaged in the attack, mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.
Recap: 'Wartime censorship is justified', says Kremlin spokesperson
03:00
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Bryony Gooch
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said wartime censorship in Russia is justified amid the conflict with Ukraine.
Russian authorities swiftly blocked Russian-language media outlets in February 2022 to quash dissenting voices as Russia invaded Ukraine, and they introduced laws threatening many years in prison for those "discrediting" the army, Reuters reported.
Speaking to a Russian magazine called Expert, Peskov said that many media outlets have been closed and some reporters have emigrated from the country in the past three years.
"But don't forget the situation we are in. Now is the time of military censorship, unprecedented for our country. After all, the war is going on in the information space too," Peskov is quoted as saying by the magazine.
"It would be wrong to turn a blind eye to the media that are deliberately engaged in discrediting Russia. Therefore, I believe that this regime (censorship) is justified now," Peskov told the magazine.
Recap: NATO needs more long-range missiles to deter Russia, US general says
02:00
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Bryony Gooch
NATO will need more long-range missiles in its arsenal to deter Russia from attacking Europe because Moscow is expected to increase production of long-range weapons, a U.S. Army general told Reuters.
Russia's effective use of long-range missiles in its war in Ukraine has convinced Western military officials of their importance for destroying command posts, transportation hubs and missile launchers far behind enemy lines.
"The Russian army is bigger today than it was when they started the war in Ukraine," Major General John Rafferty said in an interview at a U.S. military base in Wiesbaden, Germany.
"And we know that they're going to continue to invest in long-range rockets and missiles and sophisticated air defences. So more alliance capability is really, really important."
Trump’s stark warning to Putin after Russia drones hit maternity ward: ‘You’ll be seeing things happen’
01:00
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Bryony Gooch
European court finds Russia responsible for human rights abuses during Ukraine invasion
Saturday 12 July 2025 00:00
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Bryony Gooch
US has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, Zelensky says
Friday 11 July 2025 23:43
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Jabed Ahmed
The United States has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Zelensky, speaking in his nightly video address, also set out a long list of areas in Ukraine, where the military is facing challenges in resisting the slow advance of Russian forces in the 40-month-old war.
Zelensky restated that Ukraine had received high-level signals from Washington and its other Western allies that arms supplies, paused for a time last week, had now resumed.
"According to all reports, deliveries have resumed. We are currently working with partners on new supplies, increased weapons production in Ukraine and better support for our army," he said.
"Next week, we will continue working with the U.S. side on a military level, including between our military and General Kellogg. We are also preparing new European defence packages. We expect strong sanctions soon, including sanctions against Russia for this war. The pressure must work."
Kellogg, interviewed by the Ukrainian media outlet Novyny.LIVE while attending a conference about Ukraine in Rome, said: "We'll be in Kyiv Monday. We'll be there all week."
US is selling weapons to Nato allies to give to Ukraine, Trump says
Friday 11 July 2025 23:40
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Jabed Ahmed
Donald Trump has said the US is selling weapons to Nato to give to Ukraine.
“We’re sending weapons to Nato, and Nato is paying for those weapons, 100%,” Trump said in an interview with NBC.
“So what we’re doing is, the weapons that are going out are going to Nato, and then Nato is going to be giving those weapons (to Ukraine), and Nato is paying for those weapons.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that some of the US-made weapons Ukraine is seeking are deployed with Nato allies in Europe.
Those weapons could be transferred to Ukraine, with European countries buying replacements from the US, he said.
“It’s a lot faster to move something, for example, from Germany to Ukraine than it is to order it from a (US) factory and get it there,” Rubio told reporters during a visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
‘They are trying to sow fear’: How Russia has amped up its aerial strikes on Ukraine
Friday 11 July 2025 23:00
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Bryony Gooch
Recap: Russia attacks maternity hospital in Kharkiv
Friday 11 July 2025 22:00
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Bryony Gooch
A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies.
Nine people were injured in drone strikes in Kharkiv; some of the women attending the maternity ward were a part of this figure.
Three women and three newborns suffered acute stress and received medical help, according to Kharkiv's regional prosecutors.
Oleksandra Lavrynenko was at the hospital after just giving birth. "We woke up and heard a very loud whistle. My husband and I got up and quickly went to our little one, and at that moment there was a hit and the windows shattered," she said.
They rushed to shelter one-day-old Maksym underground.
"It was very scary, because I was so full of adrenaline that I probably forgot that I had stitches. Now I am slowly recovering from the shock," Lavrynenko said.
"It is very difficult and scary to give birth at this time," she said, laying next to her son.
Watch: Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘pure terrorism’ after new wave of drone strikes
Friday 11 July 2025 21:01
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Bryony Gooch
Recap: Kremlin says it awaits 'major statement' from Trump
Friday 11 July 2025 20:00
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Bryony Gooch
Russia is awaiting the "major statement" that US president Donald Trump announced he would deliver on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
Trump told NBC News on Thursday that he will make a "major statement" on Russia on Monday, without elaborating what it will be about.
In recent days, Trump has expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia-Ukraine conflict.
When asked about the new NATO weapons deliveries to Ukraine, Peskov called it “just business” as Kyiv had already been receiving weapons prior to this development.
In pictures: Kyiv memorial to fallen soldiers after days of heavy bombardment
Friday 11 July 2025 19:00
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Bryony Gooch
Recap: All we know about the senior intelligence official gunned down in Kyiv
Friday 11 July 2025 18:00
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Bryony Gooch
- A senior intelligence officer for Ukraine’s security service has been gunned down in Kyiv.
- CCTV footage published on social media showed the agent was slain in a residential parking lot on Thursday morning before a gunman clad in dark clothing fled the scene on foot in broad daylight.
- The victim’s name has not been publicly disclosed and the identity of the suspect remains unclear. A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official said that the intelligence officer had been a colonel, according to Reuters.
- Ukrainska Pravda has claimed the agent was Colonel Ivan Voronych, adding he died at the scene after the assailant fired five aimed gun shots.
- The New York Times claimed that Voronych was a part of the SBU’s Centre for Special Operations Alpha and had been within the organisation for decades.
- It remains unclear whether the agent’s death was a domestic issue or an assassination.
Trump’s stark warning to Putin after Russia drones hit maternity ward: ‘You’ll be seeing things happen’
Friday 11 July 2025 17:00
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Bryony Gooch
President Donald Trump on Friday issued a none-too-veiled threat of action against Russia after Moscow’s forces pounded a Ukrainian maternity hospital, injuring nine people earlier in the day.
Speaking to reporters before departing the White House to view flood damage in Texas, where 121 have died and 170 are still missing, the president was asked about the drone attack against the civilian target.
He replied: "I know. You'll be seeing things happen."
Correspondent Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington DC:
Senate panel approves $500 million aid for Ukraine in defense bill
Friday 11 July 2025 16:40
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Bryony Gooch
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved $500 million in security assistance for Ukraine as part of its draft language for its Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which also restricts A-10 aircraft retirements.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is an annual policy bill that authorizes funding levels and provides authorities for the U.S. military.
It ensures that American forces have the necessary resources to carry out their missions and is closely watched by weapons makers like Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co.
The NDAA, passed by the Senate Armed Services Committee with a vote of 26-1 on July 9, 2025, includes a provision to extend the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative through 2028, increasing authorized funding to $500 million from $300 million in 2025.
The initiative aims to bolster Ukraine's defense capabilities as it battles Russian forces which invaded in 2022.
The bill also prohibits a controversial request made in President Donald Trump's June budget request to retire the Air Force A-10 fleet. The draft requires that the inventory of the A-10 cannot drop below 103 aircraft in FY26, ensuring the continued operation of these close air support planes.
Putin 'will be seeing things happen' warns Trump
Friday 11 July 2025 16:30
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Bryony Gooch
Donald Trump issued an ominous warning to Vladimir Putin after a maternity ward in Kharkiv was hit.
When asked about the drones damaging a maternity hospital, the president said: “I know. You'll be seeing things happen.”
It comes ahead of his “major statement” on Monday for Russia after confirming the US would supply weapons to Ukraine via Nato, with the alliance covering the full cost.
“I think I’ll have a major statement to make on Russia on Monday,” the president, who has grown frustrated with Russian president Vladimir Putin, told NBC News. “We’re sending weapons to Nato, and Nato is paying for those weapons, 100 per cent.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmytry Peskov said they await Trump’s statement.
Watch: Starmer reaffirms European commitment to Ukraine after Macron meeting
Friday 11 July 2025 15:57
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Bryony Gooch
Top Russian commander killed, confirms authorities
Friday 11 July 2025 15:36
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Bryony Gooch
Russian officials have revealed that Colonel Sergei Yuryevich Ilyin, a top commander of the Russian military, has been killed, as the Kremlin awaits US president Donald Trump’s “major statement”.
Local authorities from the Chuvashia district, east of Moscow, confirmed the commander of the 155th Separate Guards Kursk Orders of Zhukov and Suvorov Marine Brigade died “during a special military operation.”
“This is a tragic loss for our district, Chuvashia, and the entire country,” they said. Reports from Ukrainian media have suggested Ilyin was among Russian military personnel killed when Ukraine’s forces attacked the 155th Brigade’s command post in the Kursk region earlier this month.
“Sergei Yuryevich carried out combat missions with honor and courage, demonstrating exceptional courage and heroism. He performed an immortal feat, giving his life for our Motherland. Giving one's life for one's country is the highest patriotic act that will forever remain in people's memory. His courage and selflessness serve as an example for future generations.
“Sergei Yuryevich died defending the freedom and independence of the country he loved so much.
“We express our sincere condolences to his family, all relatives and friends. In this difficult hour, we share your pain and the bitterness of loss. Eternal memory to the Russian soldier and eternal glory to him. His feat will never be forgotten.”
Zelensky invites President of Ghana to visit Ukraine amid growing partnership
Friday 11 July 2025 15:15
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Bryony Gooch
He said: “We share a mutual interest in developing bilateral cooperation. We discussed areas where we can already deepen our partnership, first and foremost in the agro-industrial sector and the creation of a food logistics hub in Ghana. We agreed to organize a ministerial-level meeting, and a Ukrainian delegation will travel to Ghana in the near future.
“Ghana is also interested in our technologies, the production of various types of drones, and the experience Ukraine has gained during this war. Ghana is ready to finance our production, and we are ready to help our partners secure their borders.”
I had a good conversation with President of Ghana, @JDMahama.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 11, 2025
We share a mutual interest in developing bilateral cooperation. We discussed areas where we can already deepen our partnership, first and foremost in the agro-industrial sector and the creation of a food logistics hub… pic.twitter.com/HYapyIiB1q
10 million people displaced since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Friday 11 July 2025 15:00
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Bryony Gooch
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced almost 10 million people to flee their homes, with about 3.8 million displaced within the country and 5.6 million abroad, the UN refugee agency's representative for Ukraine has said.
The war between Russia and Ukraine is continuing with "increased intensity" so international support funding a humanitarian response is crucial, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative Karolina Lindholm Billing said on Friday.
"At the moment, most who are newly displaced remain within the country and that's what most people prefer to do as well: to stay as close as possible to their home regions," Ms Lindholm Billing said.
The UNHCR representative stressed that every day the organisation and its local partners help people who are victims of aerial attacks, including recent strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv.
"People evacuating from front line areas need support. But at the same time, we have to continue helping Ukraine's immediate recovery, so that people who want to stay in Ukraine can actually do that," Ms Lindholm Billing said.
Teenage girl found to have set fire to military vehicle in Odessa after promised money by Russia
Friday 11 July 2025 14:45
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Bryony Gooch
A woman and 13-year-old girl, led by Russian special services, set fire to an evacuation military vehicle and a Ukrainian railway facility in exchange for the promise of a financial reward, according to Odesa Police and the SBU (Ukraine security services).
The 13-year-old girl from Odesa was recruited over messenger and offered money to set fire to relay cabinets of the regional branch of Odesa Railway and cars of military personnel from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Territorial Centres for Recruitment and Social Support.
She was told to coordinate the facilities with the messenger and send them video reports afterwards.
Police established in early July that she doused herself in flammable liquid and set fire to a relay cabinet; fortunately the fire went out quickly and the device didn’t malfunction. She was then told to set alight a servicewoman’s car which was used to transport wounded from the frontline.
The teenager asked her 58-year-old mother to get involved and they set fire to the vehicle that night, which burnt down completely.
The woman was detained and she may face up to eight years in prison, while the 13-year-old was transferred to guardianship and trusteeship, where she may be subject to compulsory educational measures.
NATO needs more long-range missiles to deter Russia, US general says
Friday 11 July 2025 14:30
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Bryony Gooch
NATO will need more long-range missiles in its arsenal to deter Russia from attacking Europe because Moscow is expected to increase production of long-range weapons, a U.S. Army general told Reuters.
Russia's effective use of long-range missiles in its war in Ukraine has convinced Western military officials of their importance for destroying command posts, transportation hubs and missile launchers far behind enemy lines.
"The Russian army is bigger today than it was when they started the war in Ukraine," Major General John Rafferty said in an interview at a U.S. military base in Wiesbaden, Germany.
"And we know that they're going to continue to invest in long-range rockets and missiles and sophisticated air defences. So more alliance capability is really, really important."
Pictured: Officials carry portrait and coffin with body of Roman Starovoit during St Petersburg funeral
Friday 11 July 2025 14:15
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Bryony Gooch
Recap: Russia has confiscated $50bn worth assets over three years
Friday 11 July 2025 14:00
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Reuters
Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some $50 billion (£37 billion) over the past three years, in an attempt to develop a “fortress Russia” economic model during the war in Ukraine.
When Russia began it’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, a number of Western companies fled the Russian market, while others’ assets were expropriated and some major Russian businesses saw their assets seized by the state.
In response to what Russia declared “illegal actions” by the West, Putin signed decrees over the past three years to seize Western assets. Germany’s Uniper and Danish brewer Carlsberg have been entangled in this.
Moscow law firm NSP (Nektorov, Saveliev & Partners) said that the scale of what it called the "nationalisation" amounted to 3.9 billion roubles over three years, and it listed the companies involved.
The research was first reported by Russian newspaper Kommersant.
In pictures: Firefighters in Odesa following Russian drone strike
Friday 11 July 2025 13:55
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Rebecca Whittaker
Watch: Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘pure terrorism’ after new wave of drone strikes
Friday 11 July 2025 13:45
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Bryony Gooch
'Wartime censorship is justified', says Kremlin spokesperson
Friday 11 July 2025 13:36
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Rebecca Whittaker
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said wartime censorship in Russia is justified amid the conflict with Ukraine.
Russian authorities swiftly blocked Russian-language media outlets in February 2022 to quash dissenting voices as Russia invaded Ukraine, and they introduced laws threatening many years in prison for those "discrediting" the army, Reuters reported.
Speaking to a Russian magazine called Expert, Peskov said that many media outlets have been closed and some reporters have emigrated from the country in the past three years.
"But don't forget the situation we are in. Now is the time of military censorship, unprecedented for our country. After all, the war is going on in the information space too," Peskov is quoted as saying by the magazine.
"It would be wrong to turn a blind eye to the media that are deliberately engaged in discrediting Russia. Therefore, I believe that this regime (censorship) is justified now," Peskov told the magazine.
'Everyone is tired' of war in Ukraine, says UN official
Friday 11 July 2025 13:20
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Bryony Gooch
Fatigue over the war in Ukraine and U.S.-led foreign aid cuts are jeopardising efforts to support people fleeing hardship, the head of the UN migration agency warned in an interview on Friday.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) director general Amy Pope was speaking a day after a Ukraine recovery conference in Rome mobilised over 10 billion euros ($11.69 billion) for the country.
"It's three-and-a-half years into the conflict. I think it's fair to say that everybody is tired, and we hear that even from Ukrainians who've been experiencing the ongoing attacks in their cities and often have been displaced multiple times," she told Reuters.
"The response to it, though, has to be peace, because ultimately, without peace, there won't be an end, not only to the funding request, but also to the support for the Ukrainian people."
All we know about the senior intelligence official gunned down in Kyiv
Friday 11 July 2025 13:00
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Bryony Gooch
- A senior intelligence officer for Ukraine’s security service has been gunned down in Kyiv.
- CCTV footage published on social media showed the agent was slain in a residential parking lot on Thursday morning before a gunman clad in dark clothing fled the scene on foot in broad daylight.
- The victim’s name has not been publicly disclosed and the identity of the suspect remains unclear. A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official said that the intelligence officer had been a colonel, according to Reuters.
- Ukrainska Pravda has claimed the agent was Colonel Ivan Voronych, adding he died at the scene after the assailant fired five aimed gun shots.
- The New York Times claimed that Voronych was a part of the SBU’s Centre for Special Operations Alpha and had been within the organisation for decades.
- It remains unclear whether the agent’s death was a domestic issue or an assassination.
In pictures: residents examine damage in Odesa
Friday 11 July 2025 12:45
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Bryony Gooch
Ukrainian intelligence officer gunned down in Kyiv
Friday 11 July 2025 12:30
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Bryony Gooch
How many drones and missiles has Russia fired at Ukraine this week?
Friday 11 July 2025 12:15
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Bryony Gooch
So far this week, Russia has fired a total 1,398 drones and missiles at Ukraine, according to the air force’s reports from Monday to Friday.
Already, this exceeds the total 1,362 drones and missiles that were reportedly launched at the war-torn country over the seven-day period starting 30 June.
Here is a graph which shows how Russia’s aerial strikes have increased on Ukraine over the past 50 days.
Ukraine attacked by 79 drones overnight
Friday 11 July 2025 12:00
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Bryony Gooch
Ukraine’s air force reported 79 drones and missiles launched by Russia overnight on Friday.
The air raid came from three different locations: Kursk, Millervo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia).
“The air attack was repelled by anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine,” the force said on social media.
“Air defence shot down 44 enemy Shahed UAVs (drones of other types) in the north, south, east, and center of the country.”
In addition, 16 drones were lost/suppressed by electronic warfare.
The latest strike on Ukraine follows days of intense, record-breaking drone strikes from Russia. The air force recorded 741 drones and missiles on Tuesday, the most intensive strike of the war so far.
Kremlin says it expects proposals from Ukraine on dates for talks
Friday 11 July 2025 11:45
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Bryony Gooch
The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow expected proposals from Ukraine on the dates for new talks with Kyiv.
Resuming negotiations after a gap of more than three years, Russia and Ukraine held face-to-face talks in Istanbul on May 16 and June 2 that led to a series of prisoner exchanges and the return of the bodies of dead soldiers.
Kremlin says it awaits 'major statement' from Trump
Friday 11 July 2025 11:15
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Bryony Gooch
Russia is awaiting the "major statement" that US president Donald Trump announced he would deliver on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
Trump told NBC News on Thursday that he will make a "major statement" on Russia on Monday, without elaborating what it will be about.
In recent days, Trump has expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia-Ukraine conflict.
When asked about the new NATO weapons deliveries to Ukraine, Peskov called it “just business” as Kyiv had already been receiving weapons prior to this development.
Hungarian prime minister accuses Ukraine of beating Hungarian-Ukrainian citizen to death
Friday 11 July 2025 11:00
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Bryony Gooch
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban on Friday accused Ukrainian authorities of beating a Hungarian-Ukrainian dual citizen to death during his mobilization in the military.
Ukraine has rejected his claim, which has further strained relations between the neighbouring countries.
Orban, a vehement critic of Ukraine and its fight to ward off Russia's full-scale invasion, told state radio that a man who reportedly died in a Ukrainian hospital earlier this month had been “beaten to death” by his recruiters.
He didn't provide any evidence to substantiate the accusation, adding that the matter remained under investigation.
Orban's statements came a day after Hungary's foreign ministry summoned the Ukrainian ambassador over the unconfirmed report.
The ministry claimed that Ukrainian military recruiters had beaten the man as part of “forced conscription” into the army before taking him to a recruitment center.
Ukrainian authorities have disputed the account, saying the man was a Ukrainian citizen who had left his military unit without authorization and later checked himself into a hospital.
They said the hospital found no signs of physical injury indicating violence.
The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism, Ukraine's embassy in Budapest wrote in a post on social media on Thursday.
“We categorically reject any allegations of forced conscription, mistreatment, or human rights violations” committed by any Ukrainian military officials, the statement said, adding that Ukraine is open to a “transparent investigation.”
