Ukraine

A court in Russian-annexed Donetsk sentenced British citizen Hayden Davies to 13 years in a high-security prison camp for fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine. Russian prosecutors said Davies was captured last year with a US-made assault…

European Union leaders meeting in Brussels, Belgium, said they will not leave the summit without securing funding for Ukraine for 2026 and 2027. EU officials, including Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, said the bloc aims to cover…

A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Rostov region overnight killed three people and caused fires, Russian officials said. In Rostov-on-Don, a cargo ship docked at a pier was struck and caught fire, with emergency crews preventing an oil…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany would not “stand idly by” as Europe’s security is reshaped and vowed not to repeat the 2014 mistake of leaving Ukraine without security guarantees. Speaking in parliament ahead of the EU summit…

A Russian airstrike hit residential areas in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, injuring 26 people, including one child, local authorities said. Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov reported that two apartment buildings were damaged, while Ukrainian…

A convention establishing an International Compensation Commission to address war damage in Ukraine was signed in The Hague, the Netherlands, with the support of more than 30 countries. Backed by the Council of Europe, the body…

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it used an unmanned underwater drone to attack a Russian Varshavyanka-class submarine in Novorossiysk, Russia, on the Black Sea. The SBU stated that the submarine, which can carry Kalibr cruise…

Ukraine’s Security Service attacked the Dashan oil tanker, part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” in the Black Sea using a Sea Baby unmanned underwater drone. The vessel, sailing under the Comoros flag and heading toward Novorossiysk,…